Full-Stack Software Engineer

Our mission is to unlock the potential of business and government working better, together. We'd love for you to join us on our journey.

The partnership between business and government is vital in making our communities productive & cohesive, but inefficiency and bureaucracy is currently the norm. We are using a modern approach to change this.

Our SaaS platform gives businesses a clear view of opportunities to work with the public sector, and the tools needed to manage them. We are bringing together a massive amount of messy government data to bring clarity and transparency to a space that desperately needs it.

We've seen fantastic traction from industry leading customers such as Salesforce, Vodafone, Snowflake and Appian, and our growth trajectory is on the rise

About this role

Comp. range: £60-75K salary with an additional options equity grant

• Working in a small, cross-functional product team you will take part in all phases of product development: advising the product owner (our CPO Carsten) & lead designer on the technical aspects of planned features, designing architecture and discussing it with other engineers, implementing it and rolling out to users in production.

• You will have opportunities to develop new features in our SaaS web application and its backing service infrastructure.

  
  

  To give you some idea of the type of features we build, here are some that we’ve recently released:

  • Ingesting and visualising data about what government organisations are spending on.

  • Creating a clean database of all entities that take part in the public sector: think every government body and every private company that they ever worked with.

  • Integrations with external CRM systems, Slack, Teams, etc.

  • LLM powered tools for public sector - outreach generator & tender summarisation

    
    

• You will take part in designing & developing the software architecture of our platform suitable for future growth.

• You will help us build a global public sector database by combining procurement data, news sources, government spend and planning information and many other data sources and develop a state-of-the-art search engine for this data.

• You will work in an environment that encourages constant learning and growth, whether it’s trying out new technologies, sharing knowledge or best practices across the team or learning skills from other colleagues.

Our tech stack

• Front-end written in TypeScript using React and Ant Design components.

• Some of the tools we heavily use are react-query & react-testing-library

• We're transitioning our legacy Ruby on Rails web-app to a TypeScript backend using NestJS.

• PostgreSQL is our main database but we use ElasticSearch for querying the procurement data.

• We're currently running all of this on Kubernetes on AWS (all defined in Terraform).

• Every change is reviewed and tested & later released using an automated process.

As we are always reviewing what tools we use you will be able to influence the technology choices we make for our frontend & backend architecture.

What we're looking for

Skills we're looking for

• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role

• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript

• Experience with developing web UIs with React or similar technology

• (Bonus) Knowledge of relational databases

• (Bonus) Experience with applications running in the cloud and using modern DevOps tools

Qualities we're looking for

• Effective communicator: Sharing complex ideas and presenting your work - both with to the engineering team and the wider Stotles team - is the core of our job.

• Great at working with others, great at managing your time: As we’re a small team working on ambitious goals, effective teamwork is crucial. At the same time we expect everyone to manage their workload efficiently.

• Focused on impact, not output: Always focused on the customer impact of what we’re building, using the best tool for the job and excited to learn new things in the process.

• Ambitious curiosity: Eager to learn skills and technologies outside of your comfort zone, take ever more challenging tasks, and grow into a senior leadership role at Stotles.

• Dependability & detail-oriented: Trusted to deliver on the commitments you make to the team, from the big picture results to the nuanced details.

Most important, we're looking for people that are curious, ambitious and love to learn new things, so if for any reason you don't fit our requirements but are passionate about our vision, don't hesitate to apply!

Benefits and perks

• Transparent and competitively benchmarked salaries

• Equity dependent on experience

• A generous health cash plan (Covers dental, optical, physical therapy, consultations, etc.)

• A personal health, wellness, and development allowance of £130/month to spend on gym memberships, therapy, yoga classes... any experience that keeps your mind and body healthy.

• 25 days vacation + bank holidays

• A dedicated learning and development budget you can use for books, conferences, courses, events

• Office in Central London (Farringdon)

• A hybrid working environment with 3 days in office for Commercial and Ops and 1-2 days for Product and Engineering and flexible work-from-home opportunities

• A work-from-home setup budget of £400 you can use for these items: a keyboard, monitor, mouse, office chair, desk, headphones

• Monthly affectionately-termed "TeamChills™️": our in-person team-bonding socials covering anything from mini-golf, to communal taco-eating and summer picnics