Javascript / API Engineer

Javascript/API engineer

Do you want to help change the way we view capitalism and raise money for good causes? Do you love making beautiful products that could really change people’s lives?

Percent wants to create a world where it’s easy to be good, and our first mission is to drive 1% of global retail spend to good causes.

Following our third round of investment to make our mission a reality, we are looking for an amazing Javascript/API engineer to join our happy team on a mission. You will be jointly responsible for creating a range of fantastic features for our major stakeholders including many of the world’s largest charities.

We have:

·A team you’re hopefully going to love

·A focus on people

·A very big project

·A nice office in central London

·Tasty Tuesdays – delicious company lunch on us

·Tackling global problems whilst keeping our zen

·Doing everything with a rebellious lemon twist

You have:

·A love of making the world a better place

·A desire to take joint ownership of a very important project

·Great knowledge of OO Javascript and NodeJS

·Experience using a variety of databases

·Experience of high volume call handling and the ability to scale globally

·Knowledge of networking protocols

·Experience with many AWS services

·Knowledge of network configurations

·Experience of monitoring systems, continuous integration and testing

·A rebellious lemon twist

And even better, although not necessarily you might also have knowledge of:

·Serverless (AWS Lambda)

·HTTP 2

·Containerisation

·Video Streaming

·Infrastructure as code

·A love of tea breaks

You get:

·Great money for the right candidate and awesome equity options

·Become a partner on our mission

·Soho/Piccadilly location

·An incredibly comfy chair

·Fresh fruit every day (or biscuits)

·A fully functional luxury tea and coffee machine, always at your service