Software Engineer - Backend and Ops

Who We Are: 

We’re Breakroom. Our mission is to make the world a more equal place by turning every job into a good job. We’re building a community powered rating for every job in the world, and publishing it all online. 

We’re making sure everyone has access to great information to power the next step in their career, and we’re supporting employers to create good jobs along the way. More than 900,000 people have compared their jobs on Breakroom, and we’ve rated more than 6,500 employers across the UK.

We’re building a world-class, inclusive team and we welcome applications from all groups.

Who are we looking for?

We’re launching Breakroom in the US, and we’re growing our team to help. We’re looking for people who want to join an early stage engineering and product team as we scale into a new market. You will be responsible for:

• Designing, writing, shipping and maintaining code
• Building internal tools and shaping our processes
• Contributing expertise to decision making that guides the future of the product and the team

Our platform is built on Elixir, using the Phoenix web framework, on top of Postgres, Redis, Google Pub/Sub and Elasticsearch. We love it, and think you will too. We don’t expect you to have experience writing Elixir/Phoenix and we’ll support you to learn it on the job.

How we work

We use a lightweight agile approach to product development, leaning heavily on data for decision making, as well as always centering our users’ needs. We’re a very collaborative team – you can expect to be working closely with designers and product managers as well as your fellow engineers. To support collaborative working, we work on-site at our office in Spitalfields, London, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays every week. We ship changes multiple times a day, and encourage engineers to be part of the full lifecycle of their work.

You’ll need to:

• Be motivated to work towards our mission
• Have a thorough working knowledge of how to build for the web
• Have in depth experience with a backend language such as Elixir, Ruby, Python or Node.JS
• Have experience with a full stack web framework such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails or Django
• Had responsibility for developing complex features/services
• Be able to effectively communicate complex technical ideas with people across the business
• Experience participating in/leading operations for a high-traffic website
• Confident managing, debugging and scaling production Postgres databases
• Have experience working in cross functional teams
• Be able to participate in supporting Breakroom out of hours

Some extra things that would help but aren’t critical:

• 5+ years of experience building software for the web
• Experience working on a consumer facing product
• Experience writing Elixir or another functional programming language
• Experience building on Google Cloud/Heroku
• Experience managing infrastructure with code such as Terraform
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines
• Confident managing, debugging and scaling production Redis and ElasticSearch databases
• Experience developing and managing business intelligence/data pipelines
• Experience working with a stack in multiple geographic regions
• Experience working in a fast-paced small team
• Experience or an interest in mentoring and supporting other engineers

• Be able to lead on diagnosing and debugging production issues

Our hiring process

Our interview process is all done remotely via video call. All candidates at Breakroom will first have:

• A screening interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
• A “ways of working” interview with two members of the Breakroom team. This is the same interview for everyone regardless of the position being applied to

Successful candidates for engineering will then have:

• A 1 hour take home exercise to be submitted to us ahead of your technical interview
• A technical interview which will consist of reviewing and discussing the take home exercise, collaborating on an engineering problem, and other general technical questions

All being well, we’ll make you an offer!

As part of our team you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive Salary plus bonus
• Equity 
• Exceptional benefits package including:
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Company Pension scheme including employer match
• Mental health resources, financial and family planning, wellness and lifestyle stipend and more
• Flexible working hours
• Ability to work in London office Tuesdays and Wednesdays
• 25 days paid holiday
  

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More About Us:

Breakroom is part of the ZipRecruiter Group, which includes ZipRecruiter, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, including ZipRecruiter UK Ltd., ZipRecruiter Canada Ltd., ZipRecruiter Israel Ltd., and Poplar Technologies Ltd. (t/a Breakroom).

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, colour, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or gender reassignment. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.