\nEver wondered how it would be to revolutionise one of the least digitised industries in the market, alongside a growing and switched-on team? Read on! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________\nWe are Shape.Construction!  \n\n\nWe are digitising the largest and most fundamental industry in the world, the industry that literally builds the foundations of the civilisation we all depend on to spare us from a brutal hunter-gatherer life: CONSTRUCTION \n\n\nIt is one of the least digitised industries in the world but also the largest – 1 in 9 people globally work in the construction industry and it constitutes 11% of global GDP. \n\n\nImproving construction strengthens the very foundation of human civilisation. (Watch our short film about it). \n\n\nWe got our start as a high-end construction project management consultancy. As a consultancy, we are focused on genuinely upgrading the way construction projects are delivered. We then take the deep understanding of the projects we work on to develop construction management software products that anyone can use to deliver their projects better.  \n\n\nWe are building a full suite of products one module at a time – kind of like office 365 but for construction management. (Check out Shape, our construction management tech and watch this video about what we are doing) \n\n\nThe core of all this is our true secret sauce; people. We only recruit the very best both in capability and personality. We are deeply focused on designing a new type of organisation that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in the team first and foremost. People that join us develop fast as a whole person in ways they never imagined. (Read more about our vision and mission). \n\n\nThis approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 180 today (including consultancy) and we are still very much at the beginning! Joining us isn’t just some “job”, it is a transformative educational experience. We challenge you to be your best self in all aspects of life. \n  \nOur vision is designed to align how we operate with the fundamental aspects that enable anyone to have a fulfilled life: \n- Connects us with meaningful relationships \n- Inspires us to develop ourselves to become better humans \n- Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures \n\n\n4 core values for a good life \n\n\nWe believe a life of human flourishing is all about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a positive impact. Our four core values are grow yourself, care about people, execute to greatness and build civilisation. This philosophy goes much deeper and you can see more on our website. \n\n\nWe are achieving this vision through the following two missions:  \n1. To fully digitise the construction of human civilisation \n2. To create a new type of organisation that enables human flourishing while delivering a huge positive impact on society \n_________________________________________________________________________________________\nThe Role \n\n\nPurpose of the role \nWe are currently looking for senior/lead full stack software engineers who are really interested in scaling our API and pushing the limits of what a ReactJS PWA (Progressive Web App) can do. \n\n\nTeam \nOur team is made up of experienced software engineers, product designers and product strategists. Together we will build the digital backbone of a construction organisation. \n\n\nYour top 3 objectives \n1. Scale our REST API with Ruby On Rails \n2. Enhance our PWA using React and TypeScript \n3. Harden our tests  \n\n\nYour top 5 responsibilities \n1. Design and write efficient, reliable and reusable Ruby code \n2. Identifying bottlenecks, using tools to diagnose and refactor code \n3. Making tests a top priority in every development (TDD) \n4. Understand and write React.Js and TypeScript code \n5. Scale a RESTful API for Shape’s applications \n\n\nYour Capabilities \nYou are a skilled and emphatic software engineer who thrives to build in integrity and quality, generating momentum and knowledge to the team and company. \n\n\nAs a candidate, you should have:\n- Mastery: Deep level of knowledge on the frameworks and tools used. \n- Communication: Good communication is much more than saying the right thing. It is about communicating messages clearly and concisely. Ability to choose the best method of communication based on context, audience and urgency. \n- Leadership: Can help colleagues achieve goals. Knows how to share his/her knowledge and experience. \n- Impact: Over-analysing or over-thinking can be as problematic as not analysing or not thinking. Ability to make decisions and take action. \n\n\nNice to Have (If you don’t have it now you will after joining) \n- Mastery: Ability to write code with high level of simplicity and low level of complexity. \n- Communication: Presents concerns, doubts or ideas publicly (speaking or writing) and with associated research (internal or external meetups, conferences). \n- Leadership: Give us and others constructively critical feedback in order to continuously improve. \n- Impact: Ability to drive change, generate knowledge and empower the team. \n\n\nShape isn’t the place for you if any of the following is true: \n- You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge \n- You like to be the smartest person in the room \n- You don’t like continuously receiving honest candid feedback \n- You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team \n\n\nAt Shape we value diverse experiences and perspectives, empowering each member to contribute their unique expertise towards our collective success, so if you don't think you meet all the criteria but still are excited about this role we encourage you to apply anyways!\n\n\n_________________________________________________________________________________________\nSalary and Benefits \n \nStandard Stuff \n- Competitive salary dependent on location and capability  \n- Paid Annual Leave 20 days + statutory Bank Holidays \n- In-House Coaching Sessions \n- Discretionary bonus scheme for all team members. \n\n\nThe Life-Changing Stuff \n- 4 Day Weeks: That’s right, 4 day weeks \n- Flexibility: Getting things done is what really matters, not what time of day you do it. That means you don’t have to ask permission for things like picking up your kids or going to the doctor, just keep your team in the loop if you think they will be affected.\n- Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to give 5 years’ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a coach, mentor, well-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: That’s literally what our vision is all about and the primary reason Shape exists \n- Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that won’t be the case in Shape. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in! With Shape, development is unbounded\n- Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and outlast us \n________________________________________________________________________________________\nApplication \nWe get thousands of applications so please write us a letter as part of your application explaining:\n\n\n- Why do you want to join us?   \n- If you joined, where do you think you could make the most impact and how? \n\n\nWe aren't a giant faceless corporation; we really care about the people who want to join our team so all applications will be read thoroughly by our key leaders. \n\n\nIn terms of application, we usually start with an intro call to tell you what we are all about in a casual conversation. That helps you to know us a bit better and tell us a bit about yourself. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Video, Typescript, Ruby, API and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nSalary: £Negotiable, dependent on experience plus benefits.\n\nLocation: Cardiff, United Kingdom\nCurrently set up to work from home\n\nThe Opportunity:\n\nAlcumus are building our Engineering capability and have opportunities for collaborative, innovative Software Developers who will help us transform our technical landscape and continue to improve our customer experience.\n\nYou’ll join our growing team focused on building and developing software and digital products that support the business strategy of our internal and external clients in the UK and North America.\n\nThis will include leading development of an application that the market is yet to see.\n\nYou’ll write & review, performance critical code which sets the foundation of the application, as well as infrastructure and related tools. Continually enhancing our products and internal tools with code reviews, pair programming, and other agile techniques.\n\nWe encourage creativity, for you to share your ideas, solutions, and challenge if necessary, that will help us ensure the software delivered is performant, secure and scalable.\n\nWe are building our future platform using React on the Front End, Node.js on the Back End, so will expect sound experience in one or both.\n\nThe opportunities are great, so we would be looking for those with a practical but disciplined approach to software development. Where you will ultimately take responsibility for the development of reusable, cutting edge applications.\n\nIf you are looking for a role where you can solve interesting problems in a modern and flexible work environment, then we would love to hear from you.\n\n\n\nThe Ideal Candidate:\n\nOur Full Stack Developers, will be able to demonstrate some (not all):\n\n\n* Sound experience of Nodejs or React\n\n* Mobile First UI development\n\n* A broad knowledge of web technologies and frameworks including HTML5, CSS, WebSockets, WebServices, Events\n\n* Software development experience in an agile/TDD/BDD environment.\n\n* A collaborative, task orientated work approach\n\n* Experience of SQL (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle)\n\n* A focus on continuous improvement\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe would also love to see:\n\n\n\n\n* Exposure to Inversion of Control (IoC) programming principals\n\n* Experience of or interest in AWS or Azure, API development, NoSQL, OWASP\n\n* Mentoring or technical leadership experience or a desire to do this going forward\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Package:\n\n\n* 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) – who doesn’t love time off? As recognition of your loyalty, this will increase with length of service up to a maximum of 30 days\n\n* Giving day - an extra day annual leave for you to give back to yourself, your community or support good causes\n\n* Company pension scheme – we provide an enhanced pension scheme with generous employer contributions to set you up for later in life\n\n* Healthcare scheme – your health matters to us so you’ll get access to an employee assistance programme, 24-hour online GP, gym discounts and the opportunity to claim back a variety of healthcare, dental, optical and wellbeing treatments/services. Your dependents under 18 in full time education will also be covered too!\n\n* Life assurance – we will provide you with 3x your base salary for peace of mind\n\n* Access to a rewards platform – you’ll be able to benefit from loads of great discounts and cashback opportunities to make your money go further!\n\n* Enhanced family friendly leave – because family comes first. We offer an enhanced family friendly leave policy to allow you the time and financial peace of mind to enjoy your new arrival, regardless of your gender\n\n* Cycle to work scheme – you’ll have the opportunity to purchase a shiny new bike and pay us back in instalments!\n\n* Free fruit – we care about your health & wellbeing so grab a banana, apple or orange on us regardless of if you’re in the office or out in the field\n\n* Free parking on-site – no one wants to pay for parking so you can park on-site at any of our offices around the UK for free\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Process:\n\nDue to Covid-19 our normal recruitment process has been adapted to ensure the safety of our employee’s and candidates. To ensure the quality and experience of the process is kept at a high standard, you will be thoroughly prepared prior to your interview. Please ensure that you have access to a webcam and laptop/computer so that your interview can take place virtually. Any presentations and assessments will also be completed virtually.\n\n\nAlcumus are Equal Opportunity and Diversity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Education, Scheme and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n