Job Overview:

We are seeking a Engineering team Leader to help build out our RESTful .NET Core API, our React web app and supporting systems. This person will hire, develop, and coordinate a team working on these systems while closely integrating with an existing team in the Denver office. The ideal candidate is no stranger to building well-designed, performant and effective applications that support complex business rules and workflows.

You will start by learning from the experiences of our existing team as you become intimately familiar with our technology stack. At the same time, you will begin recruiting to build out a cross-functional team of full stack engineers in the London office located near Farringdon. For the first year you are expected to spend 50% of your time developing and 50% of your time recruiting to build the team. As you build your team, you will begin to shift recruiting time to management and hands on guidance of your team. 

You will leverage your experience to help establish best practices and drive the team and the codebase to a higher level. You will collaborate with our Denver office on a daily basis and will occasionally have the opportunity to travel to that office to help integrate our work.

Responsibilities:

• Upon starting, travel to Denver for a ramp up period with the existing team
• Quickly develop an understanding of the current architecture, it’s strengths and limitations, and will begin contributing to the codebase
• Within the first month, begin actively hiring additional resources to facilitate full stack development.
• Within the first two months, establish a foundation of domain knowledge that will guide your decisions  for yourself and your team, your collaboration with the business, your ongoing hiring goals. 
• Contribute to building shared APIs and a React application that can serve many applications and scale independently, focusing on the consumption of those APIs
• Provide constructive feedback on pull requests to increase code quality organically
• Build and adopt processes and implement best practices for coordination with other teams
• Guide and mentor new hires through the above, and guide them toward future career development
• Hold regular status meetings with development team
• Keep development team well informed of changes within the organization and general corporate news

Requirements

We need developers that share our passion for building and scaling cutting-edge Web (and eventually Mobile) apps in a fast-paced, well funded startup! We are looking for candidates who have:

• 6+ years in .NET development
• 2+ years experience developing web applications
• 2+ years experience as a leader on software development teams
• Ability to work as a Full Stack Developer with a keen eye for UI
• Experience working in an agile (scrum, kanban, or scrumban) environment
• Leadership and ability to mentor peers and junior developers
• Experience with hiring - planning and executing team growth strategies
• Pragmatic and practical approach to development within the context of a business

Strong Preference for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree
• Exposure to React in a professional environment
• 2+ years working with .NET Core
• 2+ years working with Entity Framework
• Experience working with PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Competitive salary 
• Private Health
• Competitive Holiday
• Flexible Work Location
• Flexible Hours
• Pension
• Occasional travel to the US

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Engineering team Leader to help build out our RESTful .NET Core API, our React web app and supporting systems. This person will hire, develop, and coordinate a team working on these systems while closely integrating with an existing team in the Denver office. The ideal candidate is no stranger to building well-designed, performant and effective applications that support complex business rules and workflows.

You will start by learning from the experiences of our existing team as you become intimately familiar with our technology stack. At the same time, you will begin recruiting to build out a cross-functional team of full stack engineers in the London office located near Farringdon. For the first year you are expected to spend 50% of your time developing and 50% of your time recruiting to build the team. As you build your team, you will begin to shift recruiting time to management and hands on guidance of your team. 

You will leverage your experience to help establish best practices and drive the team and the codebase to a higher level. You will collaborate with our Denver office on a daily basis and will occasionally have the opportunity to travel to that office to help integrate our work.

Responsibilities:

• Upon starting, travel to Denver for a ramp up period with the existing team
• Quickly develop an understanding of the current architecture, it’s strengths and limitations, and will begin contributing to the codebase
• Within the first month, begin actively hiring additional resources to facilitate full stack development.
• Within the first two months, establish a foundation of domain knowledge that will guide your decisions  for yourself and your team, your collaboration with the business, your ongoing hiring goals. 
• Contribute to building shared APIs and a React application that can serve many applications and scale independently, focusing on the consumption of those APIs
• Provide constructive feedback on pull requests to increase code quality organically
• Build and adopt processes and implement best practices for coordination with other teams
• Guide and mentor new hires through the above, and guide them toward future career development
• Hold regular status meetings with development team
• Keep development team well informed of changes within the organization and general corporate news

Requirements

We need developers that share our passion for building and scaling cutting-edge Web (and eventually Mobile) apps in a fast-paced, well funded startup! We are looking for candidates who have:

• 6+ years in .NET development
• 2+ years experience developing web applications
• 2+ years experience as a leader on software development teams
• Ability to work as a Full Stack Developer with a keen eye for UI
• Experience working in an agile (scrum, kanban, or scrumban) environment
• Leadership and ability to mentor peers and junior developers
• Experience with hiring - planning and executing team growth strategies
• Pragmatic and practical approach to development within the context of a business

Strong Preference for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree
• Exposure to React in a professional environment
• 2+ years working with .NET Core
• 2+ years working with Entity Framework
• Experience working with PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Competitive salary 
• Private Health
• Competitive Holiday
• Flexible Work Location
• Flexible Hours
• Pension
• Occasional travel to the US

We are looking for talented front end developers with a passion for quality and innovation to help us build the next generation of features for our members in our Southampton Office.

The way we work
The technology team is split into smaller groups of 5-6 developers plus an automation QA based around small projects. Each highly collaborative group chooses their own way of working from Kanban to GIST planning in a continually evolving process. All work items are a collaboration with our business colleagues. As part of this, we approach work with a Lean and MVP mindset often running A/B tests to validate ideas early.

What you will really be doing
Historically our web developers have done both back and front end working with our UX engineer and Marketing teams. As we expand our team we are looking for a front end specialist in this new role.

We are be looking for someone to work with our C# web developers and UX engineer to bring to life concepts from our marketing team.

This will include:

• Building new concepts and high fidelity prototypes with our UX engineer
• Work with our stakeholders to help create a better user experience for our members
• Advise our software engineers on javascript best practice
• Help build out our Javascript Testing
• Optimize our Javascript build and deploy toolset
• Expand our use of Gatsby

Skills & Requirements
We recruit people who combine a breadth and depth of knowledge. This reflects the broad nature of the work we are required to do. 

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6), ideally with exposure to React and TypeScript
• JavaScript build systems such as WebPack and Gulp
• Real work experience of testing ideally Jest or Jasmine
• CSS with SASS
• Ideally, have knowledge of frameworks such as Gatsby
• Ideally have experience in JS/CSS animations to bring pages to life

What have we worked on recently

In 2018 the team deployed 449 versions of the website using continuous deployment. Recently projects have included strategic projects, platform updates and innovative features.

Strategic and Platform Projects

• Integrating new payment gateway
• REST API to allow 3^rd party machines in our gyms to integrate into our systems
• Member self-service features
• Development of our Extra Product
• Half-yearly load testing
• CMS upgrades
• Caching layer and large unit test refactor

We allow 20% time for prototypes and concepts from this we have worked on Metrics dashboards Contactless gym entry, Strava Integration and an Alexa Skill for how many people are in the gym.

Our Recruitment Process
Our interview process consists of several stages. After the initial CV review, we arrange a 30-minute call to talk about the role and for us to learn more about your skills.

The next stage is to send you a set of scenarios and ask you to send us to create your solution to the problem. This is a chance for you to demonstrate design patterns, testing code to solve a real-world problem.

Finally, we have face to face interview for you to come see our office, meet our developers and talk over your CV and approach to the coding test.

We are looking for talented front end developers with a passion for quality and innovation to help us build the next generation of features for our members in our Southampton Office.

The way we work
The technology team is split into smaller groups of 5-6 developers plus an automation QA based around small projects. Each highly collaborative group chooses their own way of working from Kanban to GIST planning in a continually evolving process. All work items are a collaboration with our business colleagues. As part of this, we approach work with a Lean and MVP mindset often running A/B tests to validate ideas early.

What you will really be doing
Historically our web developers have done both back and front end working with our UX engineer and Marketing teams. As we expand our team we are looking for a front end specialist in this new role.

We are be looking for someone to work with our C# web developers and UX engineer to bring to life concepts from our marketing team.

This will include:

• Building new concepts and high fidelity prototypes with our UX engineer
• Work with our stakeholders to help create a better user experience for our members
• Advise our software engineers on javascript best practice
• Help build out our Javascript Testing
• Optimize our Javascript build and deploy toolset
• Expand our use of Gatsby

Skills & Requirements
We recruit people who combine a breadth and depth of knowledge. This reflects the broad nature of the work we are required to do. 

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6), ideally with exposure to React and TypeScript
• JavaScript build systems such as WebPack and Gulp
• Real work experience of testing ideally Jest or Jasmine
• CSS with SASS
• Ideally, have knowledge of frameworks such as Gatsby
• Ideally have experience in JS/CSS animations to bring pages to life

What have we worked on recently

In 2018 the team deployed 449 versions of the website using continuous deployment. Recently projects have included strategic projects, platform updates and innovative features.

Strategic and Platform Projects

• Integrating new payment gateway
• REST API to allow 3^rd party machines in our gyms to integrate into our systems
• Member self-service features
• Development of our Extra Product
• Half-yearly load testing
• CMS upgrades
• Caching layer and large unit test refactor

We allow 20% time for prototypes and concepts from this we have worked on Metrics dashboards Contactless gym entry, Strava Integration and an Alexa Skill for how many people are in the gym.

Our Recruitment Process
Our interview process consists of several stages. After the initial CV review, we arrange a 30-minute call to talk about the role and for us to learn more about your skills.

The next stage is to send you a set of scenarios and ask you to send us to create your solution to the problem. This is a chance for you to demonstrate design patterns, testing code to solve a real-world problem.

Finally, we have face to face interview for you to come see our office, meet our developers and talk over your CV and approach to the coding test.