🎤 tldr; We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves with state of the art tech.\n\nWe have crafted an [Applicant Handbook](https://www.notion.so/Applicant-Handbook-a60a560456f24c39b319b7ff2038069b) , which we highly recommend you check out, where you can find out more about the company, culture, how we recruit, what we do, and how we do it.\n\nWe are bold, like risks, and take on big challenges together. 🚀 Our customers love the product, provide valuable feedback, and trust us to rapidly help them with more of their problems.\n\n## What you will be working on\n\nYou will be following an onboarding guide that we have been refining over the last couple of years: [The onboarding](https://www.notion.so/The-onboarding-10d1781f28bb490eab58eb6917502928). After that, you will be part of the product and engineering team, expanding our Backend Team of 4, two of whom are seniors, and:\n\n- Developing our upcoming features and products.\n- Working within our “majestic” monolithic codebase and few microservices.\n- Coding across the internal API layer powering the frontend and the hundreds of Kubernetes-based backend job workers.\n- Helping to accelerate our brand new Direct Bookings product.\n- Expanding our third party integrations with APIs from the short-term rental ecosystem.\n- Provide code reviews to other backend contributors.\n- Collaborating with other members of the backend and frontend teams.\n- Occasionally speaking with customers to gain a better understanding of their usage scenarios and motivations.\n- Shipping code to production and monitoring through Grafana and Sentry.\n- Writing code that is a joy to work with.\n\n## What we expect from you\n\n🙂 If you're hesitant to apply for this position because you feel that you don't meet this list of qualifications fully, don't worry! We want to hear from you.\n\n- Substantial experience with Laravel, MySQL query optimisation, queue/job-centric backends, and unit testing.\n- An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, but also...\n- The mentality of “Code is a means, not an end,” avoiding unnecessary abstraction.\n- The ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.\n- Your compass points toward customer and business value.\n- Everything else is a lovely bonus that we're excited to hear about!\n\n## What you expect from us\n\nThe company itself is also a product, one that we iterate on. We're always improving and creating an environment where we all love to work.\n\n- 💎 Competitive salary based on a transparent salary calculation: [Our compensation](https://www.notion.so/Our-compensation-198f0d95fd004d9e9910268d7fd126ae)\n- 🏖 Paid leave, bank holidays, maternity/paternity leave: [Vacation and leave policies](https://www.notion.so/Vacation-and-leave-policies-c88861f70e7e45f880401a0e1c422d7f)\n- 🔩 All the resources and tools that you need to succeed, including budget for personal development. If you grow, we grow.\n- 🤗 A supportive and caring team environment.\n\n## 💡When applying, please be sure to answer this question:\n\nWhat does product engineering mean to you? \n\nPlease mention the word **TENACIOUSLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42Mw==). 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 — $150,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope, North America

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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42Mw==). 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
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited Kingdom

[Simpleweb](https://simpleweb.co.uk/) has an opportunity for an experienced badass lead back-end developer to join our team of coders, creatives and entrepreneurs – working with businesses that put people before profit.\n\n**We’re looking for an individual who:**\n\n* Is confident in communicating with clients in writing and face to face (virtually or in person covid permitting)\n* Has excellent engineering and problem solving skills\n* Has an exceptional understanding of the web and its protocols\n* Has a great understanding of databases\n* Is exceptional in at least one of the following: PHP, Python or Ruby\n* Has a good understanding of various server technologies such as AWS, Ansible, Docker\n* The desire to learn new languages and skills\n* A proven development experience\n* Has the ability to demonstrate passion and initiative\n\n**Bonus points:**\n\nAdditional experience, areas of expertise or even a keen interest of the following would be massively beneficial to your application.\n\n* Elasticsearch\n* dApps/blockchain\n* ML/Neural nets\n* React and React Native\n* Node\n* HTML/CSS/SaSS/etc\n* Modern JavaScript\n\n**About us:**\n\nWe build and invest in brilliant startups, working on projects with real purpose that change peoples lives for the better. For you this will mean working with talented and passionate people; influencing both the design and function of products that have huge positive potential for both people and planet.\n\nYou can see some of our investments and projects on the [Simpleweb Portfolio page](https://simpleweb.co.uk/portfolio/).\n\nWe love nothing more than to nurture talent and respect that different brains work in different ways. That said, you’ll regularly find us experimenting with new ways of doing things and our ears will always prick up at your ideas, big or small.\n\nYou’ll find that the team has some wide-ranging personal interests too so, when we’re not geeking out about tech and design, we’re never short of mind-expanding topics to mull over. We also love to organise regular hack-nights for the wider dev community and have been known to take our team off on exciting trips (both locally in Bristol and abroad)! COVID has curtailed these activities but we’ll be starting them again once it’s safe to do so.\n\nDon’t take our word for it – last year we were awarded the accolade of [Employer of the Year](https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/business/bristol-company-been-named-best-2540235) by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) for our commitment to team culture and personal development.\n\nCome and build the future with us.\n\n**Benefits and Perks:**\n\n* Fair salary reflecting experience\n* Team socials\n* Very competitive pension\n* Your religious holidays respected\n* Private medical insurance\n* Shared parental leave & pay policy\n* Personal development / conference budget\n* 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)\n\nRemote working and flexible hours (IRL community is a big deal to us so, when you feel it’s safe, we’d like to see you in the office at least once a month ideally) \n\nPlease mention the words **SUNNY BAR BIRD** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42Mw==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, PHP, Python, Node, Ruby, Backend, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad and Medical jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🚑 Medical insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUK

\n### Would you like to earn income from any location as a software engineer? \n\n \n\n### Would you like to join a fast growing, elite, high earning community?\n\n#### We're paying £50 per hour to top software engineers to carry out code reviews.\n\nAt [Geektastic](http://geektastic.com) we help our clients technically evaluate job applicants applying for software engineering roles using our unique peer-review, code challenge platform. \n\n> We're looking for experienced software engineers to join our elite, on-demand team of reviewers. You can be based anywhere, in any timezone, you just have to be good (very good).\n\n> We offer code challenges in Java, JavaScript (with specific challenges in React and Angular) PHP, Python, C#, iOS and Android (but are always adding more).\n\n> We pay you £25 for each code challenge you review, each review takes 30 minutes (on average).  \n\n> We pay you via Transferwise at the end of the month (unless you are bank with GBP, in which case we pay via bank transfer). Read all about why we use Transferwise [here](https://geektastic.com/blog/why-we-chose-transferwise-to-pay-our-remote-team). We are happy to look at alternative routes to transfer money if you don't like the sound of Transferwise.\n\nTo become part of the team you just need to register with us at [Geektastic](http://geektastic.com/developers) and take our qualifying code challenge. This is reviewed by our community and as long as it's of a sufficient quality (please be aware our bar is set pretty high) you'll be asked to do two dummy reviews.\n\nOnce you are part of the remote team you will then be notified when a new code challenge is ready to be reviewed, then you just log in and carry out the review. \n\nFeel free to email [email protected] if you have any questions. \n\nPlease mention the words **OLIVE NATURE SHOE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42Mw==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Java, C, C Plus Plus, PHP, Python, Android, iOS, Developer, Digital Nomad and React jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n