Full Stack Engineer Mid or Senior

Job Description

We believe in a world where death is not taboo. Where its not morbid or scary. Where talking about it and planning for it is natural, responsible and maybe even...funThere are currently more than eight million people without life insurance in the UK.We want to do our bit to help more people talk about death and plan for the future for when the inevitable happens. Because spoiler alert: we are all going to die.We want to offer people really easy life insurance that is focused around what we call Deathwishes.Not the desire for self-annihilation, just our way of helping you understand what you want to happen when you die. So were building the worlds largest place where you can make, store, and share your wishes for whatever you want to happen when you die, whileat the same time making it cheap, flexible and easy to use and understand.Sounds like fun Come join us and be part of our journey to world domination.*About the role:*Were looking for a Software Engineer with JavaScript and AWS experience. This is an awesomeopportunity to work in a talented and passionate team in a young business to evolve the technology platform that will power our next growth phase (and beyond). Furthermore you will be involved early enough to help shape the technology, our products, the teamand ways of working with plenty of opportunity to grow yourself.In previous roles you will have built high quality cloud native applications using software such as ReactJS/NextJS, NodeJS or GraphQL. You will have some exposure ideally in using AWS and a fewof the services it has to offer such as Lambda, ECS or DynamoDB for example. You will have experience (and enjoy) working within a culture that is all about a shared understanding between developers and operations, and sharing responsibility for the softwareyou build.*About you:** Familiar in full-stack development. Developing secure, highly scalable front-ends using JavaScript, ReactJS, NextJS or GraphQL* Have some server-side development experience with NodeJS and have some experience with SQL Databases* Experiencein building cloud native apps hosted on AWS and knowledge of a handful of AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3 or DynamoDB* Experience of working in Microservice based or Event Driven Architectures* Experience and a passion for built in quality through TestDriven Development and Pair Programming* Good working knowledge of Agile and lean methodsWe know from widely published research that women are less likely to apply for a role if they dont meet 100% of the jobs description. Please dont let this put you off.One of our most important values is none of us know what we are doing. If you feel like you could do a great job, help shape our culture for the future, and build a great team with us, then please apply. A conversation reveals so much more. We would loveto hear from you.-* Share Options* Unlimited, fully paid time off* Super flexible working* Enhanced maternity cover* A workplace pension scheme* A brand new 16in Macbook Pro* Regular (and optional) social events* Fantastic Office (if you plan to come in)Wewould like our interview process to be as straightforward and enjoyable as possible.We kick-off with a technically focussed discussion with up to two members of our engineering team. This will include a small coding exercise where we are keen to see your thoughtprocess and how you approach things. We know this can be intimidating for some people, so if you prefer, please let us know that you have an interesting piece of code you have written previously which we can discuss instead. We take great care to make thisa friendly and welcome session (to reflect how we work).The next step will be a chat with our CTO, Nick, to find out more about each other. Here we will talk about DeadHappys culture, values and ways of working, a bit more about the role and about you asan individual. This is our collective opportunity to have a two way conversation to ensure we are the right fit for each other. Following this session we should both be in a good position to make an informed decision about whether to go forward.React, Node.js,GraphQL, Typescript, AWS LambdaReact, Node.js, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS, AWS Lambda, Next, SQL, MySQL