FullStack Software Engineer

Location: Hybrid, London office presence required

We're inviting a FullStack Software Engineer - React / Node / TypeScript to join us in an exciting greenfield project within our Expand tribe. This is a wonderful opportunity to help shape the next generation of Gousto's digital experience.

This Software Engineer role embraces flexibility, allowing you to work where you feel most inspired and effective, whether that's in the comfort of your home or in our welcoming London, Shepherds Bush office. We value the warmth of in-person collaboration and invite team members to join us in the office twice a week, fostering cross-team connections and participating in inclusive all-hands gatherings.

At Gousto, Software Engineering plays a vital role in nurturing customer relationships, from the first hello to long-term loyalty, and in crafting delightful user experiences. Our approach is thoughtfully customer-centric, informed by data, and focused on meaningful outcomes. We embrace lean principles to work collaboratively, experiment with care, and grow our knowledge rapidly.

Our inclusive structure features supportive, cross-functional squads that are empowered to shape both their aspirations and the thoughtful methods to achieve them. We cherish and maintain high standards for development quality and expertise. We're passionate advocates for collaborative practices like extreme programming, test-driven development, and pair programming, which foster a supportive and growth-oriented environment.

We believe in nurturing innovation and dedicate 10% of our time to exploring new tech ideas. Our regular brown bag sessions create a warm space for knowledge sharing. We're also committed to building connections within the wider tech community by hosting welcoming meetups, sharing our experiences at events, and offering insights through our blog.

Join us in this role to help cultivate the future of food technology in a caring, innovative environment.

Core Responsibilities

• Implement high-quality, scalable, and efficient backend services and user experiences in a modular and test-driven environment
• Obsessing over quality & performance of distributed systems, automated testing, APIs and customer-facing interfaces
• Supporting and collaborating with other engineers in a highly collaborative pair-programming environment as well as working together with non-technical members of the team

Who You Are

• Experience building performant, responsive and secure applications using TypeScript, React and Node
• Familiarity with modern architectural patterns and design systems
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and stackholders
• An understanding of test-driven development and the ability to write meaningful tests at each level of the testing pyramid
• You have worked with CI/CD tooling to responsibly run applications in production
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS is nice to have

Additional information

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Equal Opportunities

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto.

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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