**What we’re doing**\n\n80% of the global workforce doesn’t sit behind a desk - think retail assistants, waiters, bartenders, care assistants, nurses and so on. But up until now only 1% of funding has gone into building tools for them.\n\nAs a desk based worker it’s hard to imagine working without tools like Slack, Trello and Gmail, but for much of the deskless workforce, that’s the current state of play.\n\nThe only way to find out what shifts you’re working is to look at a print out taped to the break room wall. Changes to shifts are scribbled on the printout, photographed then sent to WhatsApp groups. Managers spend hours calling and texting trying and often not succeeding to fill overtime shifts. Payslips are sent in the post or accessed via web 1.0 portals and holiday is requested either in-person or through clunky legacy kiosks. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nThe result is a dissatisfied workforce, soaring rates of attrition and tens of billions wasted in lost productivity, re-hiring and unnecessary agency spend. \n\nThis same workforce is accustomed to the very best in user experience, WhatsApp for messaging, Monzo for banking and AirBnB for holidays.\n\nSo where is the work app?\n\nThat’s what we’re building at Sona. The single app that will deliver a best in class user experience for deskless workers to manage their entire work life.\n\nWe’re still early on in our journey so anyone getting involved has scope to have a huge impact. \n\nWe’ve raised a $2.2m pre-seed round from some amazing investors including SpeedInvest and Notion Capital. We have a highly experienced founding team and amazing sales, marketing and customer success people as well as some exceptional engineering and product design talent. \n\n**About the role**\n\nYou’ll be working as part of a fully remote, close knit product team. We use Github + ZenHub for code hosting and project management and operate an extremely lightweight sprint based process.\n\nWe like engineers to be heavily involved throughout the product development process, not just in building.\n\nOur stack has two main components:\n\n* A backend with a GraphQL API and web frontend built using Elixir and Phoenix Live View\n* A native mobile application built in React Native + Typescript\n\nWe think in terms of “T Shaped” developers. This means that while all of us have some ability across the “full stack”, most of us have one side of the stack (e.g. Elixir or React Native) we’re stronger on and spend the bulk of our time on.\n\nTypically when somebody starts working with us, they have strong experience with one side of the stack and then learn the other part on the job. \n\n\n**About You**\n\nWe love engineers who have a non nonsense approach to “getting it shipped”, who when given the choice between “complicated and shiny” vs “get something simple in front of a user” will always choose the latter. \n\nEverybody’s different, but a lot of the following probably applies to you:\n\n* You have extensive professional experience in Elixir or React Native (you don't need both!!)\n* If your experience is in Elixir, you’re happy to talk about OTP, Erlang, Beam and how these relate to each other. You’ve built things using LiveView and are comfortable talking about it’s advantages and challenges. \n* If your experience is in React Native you’re happy to talk about Typescript, the role of generics and when they should be used, what hooks are, how they changed how we build React Native apps and when one should consider writing custom hooks. You’d be equally happy explaining promises and how they interact with async / await\n* You have a strong preference for over-communication, and take ownership of ensuring you fully understand what you’re working on\n* You’re in a country which is GMT +/- 3 and fluent communicating both verbally and in writing in English \n\n**How We Work**\n\nWe’re a fully remote team spread across 4 countries (and growing). We have a company stand up most mornings at 10:00 UK time. We aim to have fully paid for company meetups roughly once per quarter. \n\nEverything starts with talking to customers. We like everyone in the company to regularly join either sales calls with new prospects or catch ups with existing customers \n\nWe’re a small company with a strong preference for lightweight, asynchronous processes. Within product we work in sprints with periodic retrospectives.\n\n**Interview Process**\n\nOur interview process follows this pattern:\n\n* Initial phone screen (15-30 minutes) focused primarily on approach to work, career goals and your questions about Sona\n* Technical Interview (1-2 hours) take us through a piece of code you're proud of and talk about how it's architected, what worked well and what you'd do differently if you wrote it again. If you don't have a suitable piece of code, we're also happy to pay you for half a days work to do a take home task. But we understand that everyone's busy so we'd much rather use some code you've already got where possible!\n* Founder Interview (1 hour), focused on why you’re interested in Sona and your questions about the vision\n\n**Benefits**\n\n* Competitive salary\n* Employee share option scheme\n* New M1 Macbook + equipment grant for home office\n* Co-working stipend \n* 4.5 day standard working week (take your half day out when it suits you)\n* Unlimited free books \n\nPlease mention the words **WORLD DIAL HUNT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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Full Stack Engineer (React+Python)\n\nThere’s a big shift in the way people work towards self-employment and entrepreneurship in the UK and around the world. \n\nCoconut is a current account that takes care of accounting and tax. It’s designed specifically for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.\n\nWe launched our first product in January 2018. We’re at an exciting point in our journey and we now have 31,000 customers. Our mission is to free millions of people around the world from business admin by combining banking and accounting into one simple product.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we need more incredible people in our team. We are now looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer with strong React/Python (Django) experience to join our engineering team to help us deliver our ambitious roadmap.\n\nWe’re a friendly, welcoming and diverse team and look forward to speaking to you if this role sounds of interest.\n\nOur primary technology stack has:\n\n- React for web application experiences\n- Python 3 for server side application code\n- Django for web applications and APIs\n- Celery for async task management\n- Redis for caching and async task brokering\n- Lambda for serverless parts of our application like transaction processing\n- AWS for infrastructure and other services supporting the platform\n\nA bit about the role:\n\nEvery day is different at Coconut so we are looking for somebody that takes change into their stride. A typical week might include:\n\n- Understanding requirements from across the business and translating them into technical solutions for external and internal customers \n- Creating exceptional front end web experiences from high fidelity digital designs for customers using modern React and associated technologies (Redux, Webpack etc.)\n- Creating features/APIs supporting either web applications and/or mobile applications\n- Helping the Growth Team run web-based experiments\n- Working on the Coconut website\n- Working closely with design to review UI and UX\n- Improving performance of our web products\n- Improving our front end tool chains\n- Bug fixing or enhancement work\n- Demoing your work to the business for feedback\n\nSkills you need:\n\n- 3+ years of strong Javascript and React web applications (including Single Page Applications) development experience including networking with APIs to deliver functionality\n- Exceptional front end web development skills and proven experience in construction of high quality component-driven user interfaces\n- API development, most ideally in python/Django/DRF or similar framework programming experience working on various systems and problems including exposure to Cloud computing and databases\n- PHP and Wordpress experience a bonus\n- Good understanding of and experience implementing web security\n- Strong design sensibility, product intuition and a creative mind and enjoy brainstorming and solving problems\n- Writing unit and functional tests of your work\n- Understanding of performance and scaling issues and how to affect these\n- Understanding of the importance of best practices vs pragmatism\n- Strong drive to own your work and ensure its delivered from start to finish\n- Able to work independently and seek help where needed\n- Deep care for quality in your work\n- Passionate about delivering value to customers\n- Experience of working within a product team and understand agile methodology\n- are highly collaborative and helpful\n- Communication to a high standard to both technical and non-technical people\n- Knowing when to ask for help and being open in times of difficulty\n- Desire to work in a fast-paced, demanding but rewarding and fun environment\n\nInterested in learning more?\n\nIf you’re interested we would love to hear from you. You can apply below or you can contact harriet@getcoconut to learn more. We have a 4 stage virtual interview process as follows:\n\n- Initial call with Head of Talent\n- 45 minute chat with CTO\n- 45 minute chat with Design, Product Management and Growth\n- 1.5 hour technical interview including discussion around a technical exercise that you prepare before the interview\n\nWorking at Coconut\n\nBenefits:\n\n- Be a member of a small growing team that is building something exceptional\n- Competitive salary + options available\n- Company pension with matched contributions\n- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)\n- Remote working indefinitely\n- London office available if preferred\n- Work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration\n- Continuous learning and development: you will be challenged with lots of responsibility and exciting projects\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **NEXT LOBSTER EVIL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n /year\n
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\n\n#Location\nUnited Kingdom