Fullstack Product Engineer, Zinc Work

Fullstack Engineer with Product focus

£50-65k

+ Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme

React
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Cypress
Jest
Ubuntu
DigitalOcean
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

More information about location

2 days a week in office (Old Street)

Zinc Work

Automated employee reference and background checking software

Job no longer available

Zinc Work

Automated employee reference and background checking software

21-100 employees

B2BHRSaaS

Job no longer available

£50-65k

+ Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme

React
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Cypress
Jest
Ubuntu
DigitalOcean
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

More information about location

2 days a week in office (Old Street)

21-100 employees

B2BHRSaaS

Company mission

To change the way people prove their work identity.

Role

Who you are

  • We need someone who has experience of how different teams work, who has a desire to consolidate that knowledge and use it within a small agile team
  • Experience with JavaScript, up to date with the latest ECMAScript features (at least ES6)
  • Experience with Node.js
  • You value clean code and following best practices, design principles, and avoid anti-patterns
  • A good communicator - your documentation provides context, is clear, and up-to-date. If something is unclear, you'll ask for clarification
  • You care about the end-users - have empathy to customers' needs, and be able to spot opportunities to improve user experience
  • Take ownership - you are proactive in updating stakeholders on your progress, rather than reactively responding to their queries
  • Experience and a desire to work with cross functional teams
  • You're curious and always eager to understand why things do and don't work..

Desirable

  • Any frontend libraries (e.g. React) or frameworks (e.g. Angular, Vue)
  • TypeScript (or other typed languages)
  • Designing consistent and efficient APIs
  • Build and test pipelines (e.g. CircleCI)
  • NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
  • Integrating with external platforms

What the job involves

  • We're looking for a product-minded developer to join our engineering team, working on prototyping, frontend development, backend development, testing, and deployments
  • You will have the opportunity to directly impact the product, suggest changes and new featres and influence an industry-changing product
  • Collaborate with our product team to iterate on the product specification
  • Design and plan out new features with the team
  • Write technical specifications
  • Write efficient, maintainable and reusable code
  • See your new features go live quickly, they'll be appreciated by thousands of users
  • Write unit, integration, and E2E tests
  • Actively contribute to our Engineering Guidelines
  • Work with our designer to iterate on designs

Application process

  • Screening interview with Talent Associate, Bel (30 mins)
  • Interview with Head of Engineering, Sanjeev (45mins)
  • Final In-person interview with coding task. (2 hours)

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

The existing processes for referencing and background checking suffer from notable inefficiencies, marked by biases, time-consuming procedures, and an intimidating experience for candidates. Addressing these challenges, Zinc Work aims to solve these processes by introducing an automated reference and background-checking solution.

Setting itself apart in the market, ZinC Work focuses on the user-friendly design of its solution, its swift integration into existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and its high level of customisation. With a vision to offer a solution for background checks, Zinc covers a spectrum from criminal record checks to financial, education, identity, employment, and reference checks.

Recently securing funding, led by esteemed financial services investor AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and supported by Seedcamp, facilitating the launch of groundbreaking industry initiatives. These include the introduction of the first reusable global Right To Work check, the first Employment verification reference integrated with HMRC, and a background check template library collaboratively contributed to by over 40 Zinc Work customers. This financial injection underscored Zinc's commitment to innovation and reinforced its positon as a trailblazer in the realm of automated reference and background chec king solutions.

Insights

Strong hiring activity
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

43% female employees

Company

Employee endorsements

Team energy

"Team energy is great, there is lots of positivity and support. Because we only come in 2-3 days a week, when we are in everyone is engaged and happy..."

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2023

$6.5m

SERIES A

Mar 2022

$1.4m

SEED

Total funding: $8.3m

Company benefits

  • 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
  • Apple laptop and latest tech gear for your home workstation
  • £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
  • Early finish Fridays (16:30)
  • Yearly company Retreat - this year in 🇫🇷
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
  • Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
  • Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
  • Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching

Company values

  • Empathy: Seeking to understand your perspective first
  • Collaboration: We will work teogether to solve problems
  • Empowered: Empowering candidates with information and data
  • Speed: We will work to deliver at pace
  • Integrity: We are truth seekers, providing transparent information
  • Pragmatic: We're a solutions oriented team that seeks to solve

Company HQ

London, UK

Founders

Previously a Marketing Manager at Superscript, Podcast Producer at Talent Hacks for Scaleups, and a Marketing Executive at ILTM.

Luke Shipley

(Co-Founder)

Previously EMEA Head of Technology at Intelletec for 1 year. Has also co-founded stitch Leggings and Lean Lychee.


People progressing

He was a regular soldier in the Army, after leaving and studying he joined Zinc as an SDR (After a spell gold diving in FLorida). Having come in with no experience he has promoted fast through Zinc.

Tiasha joined Zinc way back in 2021, she highlighted that she wanted to work in Account Managment and has worked hard to make this career change happen.

Diversity & Inclusion at Zinc Work

  • We currently do not record LGBTQIA+ status: our team is small, which means data is hard to anonymise.
  • As of January 2024, 48% of the Zinc team are Ethnic Minorities.
  • We offer flexible working for everyone from day one.
  • Accommodations are available for everyone, regardless of status and never need to be justified: this is outlined in our DEI Statement which is accessible to all employees.
  • We offer prayer space at our co-working offices, and flexible diary arrangements for employees to keep their faith.
  • We’ve created a ‘Manual of Me’ page in our company Notion: to help foster understanding and allow team members to advocate for their communication style and work patterns.

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