\nProduct Engineer\nHigh level stuff you might be filtering against 🔍\nLocation: Remote (UK timezone +/- 6 hrs generally). In the UK we will hire you as an employee. In other countries you’ll need to be setup as a contractor initially.\nType: Full-time\nSalary: Location dependent. As a reference, our current range in the UK is £75k to £110k. If you will work from another location, you should map this to your equivalent market rate to be competitive. We are open to negotiation as we recognise there are different situations, but these are our general guardrails.\n\n\nWhat I am looking for\n👋 Hi, I’m Martin, VP of Engineering at Zen Educate and I’m looking for engineers who can make an impact on the real world problem of education staffing, and do it through engineering excellence.\n\n\nEvery place has its own understanding of what engineering excellence looks like (sometimes written down, sometimes not). Here’s what it means to me and Zen:\n• Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output\n• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate. \n• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics. \n\n\nWe are a small, but mighty team and so every engineer has the opportunity to make an outsized impact and put their stamp on what excellence looks like in practice. What do I mean by “small”? Today we have 4 product teams and 24 engineers including Tech Lead Managers and Principals.\n\n\nWe recognise the world is not static - “what got us here, won’t get us there” - so we look for curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness as fundamental traits. The engineers I see be the most successful are those who focus on solving problems, look to help others and just happen to typically leverage technology to do so.\n\n\nSo whether you’re passionate about building great products, scaling systems, or improving team processes, you’ll thrive at Zen if you care deeply about users, focus on real-world outcomes, pursue continuous learning and strive to make others better 💪\n\n\nWhat we are building and why\nGetting the right teacher into the right school at the right time is a crucial problem to solve, both for education outcomes for children and for the sustainability of an industry that spends billions on this.\n\n\nToday the platform we are building supports internal operations teams on filling roles, educators on finding roles via our mobile app and schools on getting educators in for both short-term and long-term roles. The more we develop the platform (and the ability to self-serve in the marketplace), the more efficient the whole process becomes, which means more money going back to educators and into classrooms (over £30 million since 2017). \n\n\nWe are well established in the UK and growing at a phenomenal rate in the US 🚀\n\n\nWhat we need now is to reach the next level in how we build our platform to support this growth. That’s where you come in 😉\n\n\nWhat the role looks like in practice\nI’ve written a bunch of words above that I hope capture your interest and excitement ✨. But what really matters is what reality looks like and the best people to share that are the existing engineers on the team. So here are a few glimpses from your potential peers of some of what they have done in a week:\n\n\n“I liaised with the Finance team to help re-run a set of invoices that originally failed from our automated invoice service, and I helped implement a feature to convert a long term booking into a job role - to more accurately reflect how teachers work and track job conversions. Then I shared some design feedback for a booking credit system that was initially less well defined.” - Jai\n\n\n“I implemented a compensation system that will cover the additional fees for teachers, which will allow schools to book needed teachers” - Kamil\n\n\n“I was updating the job details view in our React Native app to show more information to teachers about the school and job dates to make the job offers more attractive and useful. I also upgraded our backend Rails app to use latest version of Ruby, Sidekiq, Rack and Puma” - Adrian\n\n\n“I started the week by pushing some small updates to our React Native app, and then finished the week by shipping a feature to improve the experience of schools finding teachers and managing to clean up a bunch of legacy code in the process.” - Chris\n\n\n“I explored the feasibility of using Google Document AI to extract data from documents uploaded by candidates and validate them, improving automation for our onboarding process" - Lucas\n\n\n“I implemented backend and frontend MixPanel events for crucial workflows to better understand how users interact with our product and what we can improve on." - Georgi\n\n\n“I spent some time monitoring Sentry to spot performance trends and debug issues. I also built an automated rota in Coda for our Native release process, before reviewing Product Refinement Docs and contributing to shaping the solutions.” - Ethan\n\n\nWhat you might like or dislike \nEvery place makes tradeoffs based on what they value and where they are in their journey ⚖️. Here’s a list of things you might find useful in figuring out if this is the right role for you. If we end up chatting, feel free to dig deeper into any of them. Note that some of these are recent changes in our approach and may be “work in progress” when you join.\n\n\n💻 How We Work\n• Boring tech for the obvious, experimentation for the rest. Our core is Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, running on Heroku + Cloudflare etc.  But we have also evaluated Amazon Personalise as a candidate for our matching system and spiked out our own AI powered knowledge-base. \n• Process serves performance. We use agile sprints and other structure to support, but our focus is on outcomes not following rules. Greater performance gives greater freedom - think “Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that and just play.”\n• Engineers as problem shapers (not ticket takers). You’ll thrive here if you want to shape problems, not just deliver tickets. Our Product Managers and Designers are partners you pull on for leverage rather than task givers who hide the users away.\n• Daily shipping culture. We ship regularly and want to get even better at it. We are investing in this and welcome those who’ll help us start smaller and iterate faster.\n\n\n🌱 Growth & Progression\n• Choose your own career path. We care more about impact and learning than rigid competency grids. This means greater flexibility in what progression looks like, but requires you to build an understanding of what we value from guiding principles and shared real-world examples.\n• Few Titles, infinite Levels. We use Levels instead of Titles to show growth in a Role. You won’t see titles like Associate, Senior, or Staff here. Instead, you can grow continuously by getting better at your current role - e.g. working faster, safer, and more independently. Changing roles is possible too, but depends on business needs, since different roles aim for different business outcomes and typically use different skills.\n• Investment over reward as a mindset. Level changes are tightly coupled to compensation changes. Confidence in a Level change is based on sustainably doing great work at your current level. We think it is fairer to invest in what you do next, rather than reward you doing the next Level first for free!\n\n\n💸 Compensation\n• Market reality. Compensation is based on your competitiveness in your local hiring market (note that’s not just where you live). We don’t believe anyone has found a great solution to global compensation, so we aim instead to be clear and equitable in how we do it.\n• Solid, but not flashy compensation. We pay decently, but we won’t beat out companies with deeper pockets (yet!).\n• Think long term investment. If you are in a place where you need to prioritise immediate financial gain then this probably isn’t the right time to join us.\n\n\n🤝 Team Culture & Collaboration\n• Distributed engineering team. Solid communication skills and async habits are key to be effective. You’ll find strong connection here, but not through engineering getting together in-person. If you like the buzz of working near others you are welcome to work from one of our offices, but there won’t be many engineers there on any given day.\n• We believe in impact and measurable outcomes, alongside shared learning. If your work moves the needle or teaches us something meaningful then that’s a win. If not, then we’ll want to understand why. \n• Balanced, sustainable work. Long hours are not a badge of honour - they are an indication something isn’t working well. We value a sustainable pace and healthy teams.\n• Diversity is good in some ways and lacking in others. You might be the first of something here. That matters and we’ll support appropriately if you are.\n\n\nHow we hire\nHire fast, fix fast.  Hiring today is...not great, with most companies being too cautious and taking too long to make a decision 😦. We move quicker - our ideal is: apply Monday, offer by Friday. Then we invest heavily in the most important part - your onboarding. We ensure you are setup for success, with clear direction, experience of different teams and shipping to production within days.\n\n\nWhilst fast doesn’t mean frivolous, it does slightly increase the risk that you or we made a mistake. So we include regular check-ins during onboarding to make sure expectations match reality. If either side feels something is off then we try to fix it fast. And sometimes that will mean saying “let’s not carry on” with respect.\n\n\nReal talk. We believe in being direct and authentic. We’ll share the good, the messy and the challenges. We recognise we won’t have all the answers, still have much to learn, and that’s all part of the fun of this wild ride 🚀. We expect the same from you - after all we are just a bunch of humans trying to do great work together.\n\n\nMindset, not tools. We hire for how you think and create leverage, not what specific tools you’ve used before. To us, experience is just another tool - it is only valuable through how you leverage it. Curiosity, adaptability, product thinking - those are the durable qualities in a changing world. And we value different opinions, so ensure you share yours - have a point of view, maybe debate a little and we will respect that.\n\n\nAlways open to great people. We are always hiring and happy to chat even if the timing isn’t quite right. That’s why you might see this job post open for a long time. We are not collecting resumes or doing stealth market research, we just believe in the power of serendipity. To make that more transparent - right now we have a clear need for at least 2 more engineers in the team.\n\n\nOkay, so what will the actual process look like? 👀\n• Recruiter quick chat. Our recruiter will check you are human, can communicate effectively and cover some of the basics like compensation, benefits and availability.\n• Technical expertise. We will do a paired session with a twist - we will be the ones sharing our screen and writing the code. So come prepared to ask questions, drive progress with another engineer and dig through an ambiguous past problem in our codebase.\n• Product thinking. Chat to either our CPTO or a Product Manager about how you’ve demonstrated a product mindset in the past. Or if you haven’t had opportunity to do that, tell us why and what you’d do differently with us.  \n• Role chat. This will be with me and I’ll be wanting to understand how you think and approach the role and engineering excellence. I’ll start by asking you the question you include in your application. And I’ll want to dig into your answers so that this becomes more of a conversation and shared exploration than a Q&A session 😃. \n\n\nAfter the recruiter chat, the remaining sessions can happen in any order and as quickly as our schedules can align. You could do them all in a day if you want or spread them out a bit.\n\n\nOnce interviewers have shared their feedback from each session we do an internal debrief - that’s where we discuss what we are excited about you for in the role, any challenges we see and whether we think we can mitigate them at this time. From there we will make a decision and either proceed to offer or tell you that we not offering. \n\n\nWe believe feedback is important, but also know not everyone wants it - so we don’t share it by default. If you’d like feedback after the process, just let us know. Note that we’ll frame the feedback from our perspective of why we did or did not have the confidence rather than as a commentary on you.\n\n\nInterested? Let’s go!\nIf you read all of the above and are excited (maybe even a little nervous) about the opportunity and how we work then I recommend applying now! If you skipped or skimmed the above, feel free to apply anyway but you’re missing a bunch of useful information that could streamline the process for you 😉\n\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, Amazon, React, Ruby, Mobile, Heroku, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $122,500/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
\n\n#Location\nLondon

\nRoad Map:\n\nThe Full Stack Associate Software Engineer will become part of a team building high-quality, innovative, and performant software that complies with coding standards and technical design. The Associate will become familiar with and be a supporting member of our software development life cycle (SDLC) from preliminary system analysis to test development, our deployment pipeline, and our monitoring and maintenance for these software solutions.\n\nWhat Your Ride Will Look Like:\n\n\nTake initiative in performance, working collaboratively and occasionally independently to complete business support work and one-off tasks.\n\nWork under direction with consistent guidance/coaching to complete assigned tasks in projects.\n\nDevelop an understanding of business objectives and strategies.\n\nLearn and absorb from team, seek out mentorship and best practices when necessary!\n\n\n\n\nShow off What You've Got:\n\n\n0-2 years' experience in software development or related field\n\nSuitable proficiency for level in object-oriented programming, relational databases (SQL, ORM, and some understanding of design), and familiarity with modern web application UI development (e.g., React, Angular, etc.)\n\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies\n\nPassion for learning new technologies and collaborating with colleagues on innovative solutions.\n\nInclusive mindset for democratic deliberation of ideas whether implementing someone else’s design or championing a new idea.\n\nEffective interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel.\n\n“Knack” for puzzle-solving; debugging code, eliminating bugs, and clearing technical debt; these are your strengths, and you have fun flexing them.\n\nBachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, or a combination of equivalent education and experience\n\nAbility to travel to Albany, New York up to 4 times per year.\n\n\n\n\nTechnology Stack Familiarity:\n\n\nApp Stack: Azure Apps, Function/Logic, APIs, React frontend, using C# \n\nBackend: SQL Server \n\nPipelines: AzureDevOps, TeamCity, Octopus \n\nAutomated Testing: SpecFlow, NUnit, Jest, Vite, Katalon \n\nObservability: Sleuth, Cronitor, Sentry, LogRocket, AppInsights \n\nLegacy App Stack: Hosted VMs and cronjobs, client-server frontend tooling \n\nWorkflow Stack: Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, and GitHub \n\nWorkflow Methods: Agile, mobbing and pairing, trunk-based branching, CI/CD-driven, heavily invested in automated testing. \n\n\n\n\n Fuel Gauge: \n\n\nThis role will pay between $65,000.00 -75,000.00 depending on experience and other determining factors. \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, Education and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $110,000/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

\nProcurify’s Intelligent Spend Management platform provides hundreds of organizations worldwide with real-time visibility and control over all business spend. We’re looking for a talented and team-driven Staff Front-end Engineer to join us on our journey.\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nProcurify is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our architecture team at Procurify. This team is helping to shape the future of engineering at Procurify as we look to scale up to our next level of growth.\n\nIn this role, you will help design and deliver a web application that our customers love. You will be a thought leader for frontend at Procurify and help coach our highly engaged, creative frontend engineers across the engineering organization.\n\nProcurify just secured a series C round of funding and we are growing to serve new customers, in new industries, all over the world. This role will lead the articulation of a clear vision for our frontend web application to support this growth and to delight our customers. \nWhat you’ll be working on\n\n\n* Architecting the next iteration of our web application with React. Establish and communicate a clear vision for the future by collaborating with our Design and Product teams to build a customer-centric frontend that scales with Procurify. \n\n* Empower the team to deliver modern frontend features like real-time messaging, localization + internationalization, and accessibility\n\n* Operating at a high standard of engineering and coaching our engineering team to deliver at the same standard with skills such as\n\n\n\n* Knowledge of engineering and design principles and when to apply them\n\n* Knowledge of architectural patterns and how to articulate the associated trade offs\n\n* Awareness of common attack vectors and mitigations\n\n\n\n* Using your architectural skills and deep knowledge of patterns to accelerate our legacy javascript to React migration. In this effort you will use your knowledge of patterns and where to apply them.\n\n* Work closely with architecture team backend and data counterparts to influence our system high-level design principles and ensure our frontend architecture aligns to them.\n\n* Join annual hackathons and immerse yourself in all things fintech innovation.\n\n* Rotate between projects and commit to continuous learning with our lean kanban processes.\n\n* Work with a cloud native architecture\n\n\n\n* React/Typescript\n\n* Python/Django\n\n* Kubernetes\n\n* Fully deployed in AWS\n\n\n\n* Provide thought leadership and guide the technology and architecture choices of our frontend in collaboration with other engineers. \n\n* Build reusable architecture for our web client using well-accepted design patterns that allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.\n\n* Advise Procurify's leadership team on critical technical considerations related to the future of our frontend technology\n\n\n\nWho we’re looking for \n\n\n* Have 6-8+ years of frontend software engineering experience.\n\n* Deep knowledge of and experience with patterns such as \n\n\n\n* Singleton, Observer, Strategy, Decorator, Flux patterns\n\n* Dependency Injection \n\n* Clean Architecture\n\n* Higher Order component pattern + Container/Presenter pattern\n\n\n\n* Experience building reliable and scalable software solutions with a team of software developers, using React\n\n* Expert level experience with Typescript\n\n* Excellent Design/CSS skills to ensure that our frontend has a UI/UX that customers love \n\n* A proven track record of building/maintaining business-critical web applications at scale.\n\n* A coach who has experience growing technical leadership on an engineering team \n\n* Familiarity with agile and software development practices such as scrum/kanban, CI/CD, test automation, and infrastructure as code.\n\n\n\nWHY PROCURIFY?\nHelp us modernize spend management\n\nProcurify is a remote-first company with a big heart and a strong ambition to modernize the way organizations manage business spend. We’re trusted by hundreds of companies around the world — across industries like biotechnology, education, health care, manufacturing, and software — to manage over $30B in spend. We recently closed $50M in Series C funding to help us strengthen our core offering, launch new payment capabilities, and provide customers with an AI-enhanced procure-to-pay experience. Read the press release here.\nBe empowered to do your best work\n\nWe’ve created an environment where personal and professional growth is a real priority. Some of the great perks we offer include:\n\n\n* Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization with flexible working hours. Work anywhere from within Canada! \n\n* Four-day workweek: Burnout is real. To help you restore balance between work and life, all Procurify team members work four days a week.\n\n* Unlimited responsible time off: Work hard, play harder. All team members can take advantage of our unlimited responsible time off policy. \n\n* Extended health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and well-being. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account.\n\n* Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to giving back to our communities, including regular volunteer days, our Donate Your Day program, and education lunch and learns.\n\n* Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program.\n\n* DEI initiatives: We regularly run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter.\n\n* Base Salary Range: $146,000 - $218,000 (This range is dependent on experience and not inclusive of any bonus, commission, benefits or equity that might exist in your total compensation package.)\n\n\n\nWork with an amazing team\n\nWe’ve welcomed team members who were boat captains, funeral directors, swing dancers, competitive gamers, plumbers, and novelists. Everyone has a story and we’re here to embrace them! \nLEARN MORE\n\nProcurify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any team members or applicants for employment because of race, color, disability, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or expression.\n\nIf you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway. We know that feelings of imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we certainly don’t want those feelings to get in the way of meeting you! We really want to get to know you and why you're great for the role. Please avoid including your picture and age on your resume.\n\nApply online today and let’s start a conversation.\n\nTo learn more about Procurify, check out these resources:\n\n\n* Get to know our team through our Meet Us Monday videos\n\n* Check out what our customers are saying about us\n\n* Learn more about our procure-to-pay platform\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, JavaScript, Education, Cloud, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $110,000/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
\n\n#Location\nVancouver, British Columbia, Canada