Full Stack Engineer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Sparkol

Sparkol Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Full time

Description

This is a hybrid role that requires being in the Bristol office a minimum of once a week - please do not apply if you cannot meet this requirement.

We have an opportunity in our friendly and collaborative team for a Full Stack Engineer. You need to be agile, know what a good development and delivery process is, and have AWS skills you are keen to develop.

The role involves building new features on our cloud-native platform for new web products. So we need someone with broad experience of many aspects of the development stack. We also want someone with an interest in DevOps - using services and tooling to minimise any need for "Ops".

As a part of a small, diverse product team, you will have a voice in how we can continuously improve with our ways of working and the tools we use, to produce the best products for our customers.

About Sparkol

At Sparkol, we want anyone, anywhere to be able to bring stories to life in magical and meaningful ways. Put simply, our mission is to create simple software for people of any ability to make and share engaging content. Our software, VideoScribe, is used in over 160 countries, enabling thousands of businesses, marketers, illustrators, trainers, bloggers, salespeople, video professionals and teachers to tell better stories with video and animation.

Our diverse and supportive culture means our team is curious, inventive and works to become a little better every single day. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fun and vibrant company in the heart of Bristol, UK, that while small, has a global reach.

Full-time
UK resident only, 9am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

We're based in Bristol and work on a hybrid basis, so you can enjoy the benefits of avoiding the commute as well as the value of being in a room to work through challenges.

Get in touch if this sounds like a good fit for you

Requirements

Responsibilities

Implement new features to our existing web apps, writing readable, maintainable and testable code
Be involved from inception through to delivering software that our customers value and owning it
Collaborate with the Product and UX team to create user stories from epics
Work with developers to improve each others' skills and knowledge about new technologies and best practices
Validate new features with data-driven analytics
Write tests (unit, integration and functional) to ensure that your code works as intended over time
Maintain code quality through linting and code review
Continuously integrate and deploy your work little and often to production through CI/CD pipelines
Monitor releases with appropriate metrics and alerts

Requirements

At least 2 years of professional experience working on customer-facing web apps
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms and infrastructure (ideally AWS)
Experience building a full-stack application, from the user interface to the data store
Experience working on APIs and integrating with 3rd party services
Modern JavaScript and front-end development skills (e.g. EcmaScript 6)
Experience using React with an understanding of state management libraries
User-driven: the user's experience is paramount to you - "dev complete" is not the same as done
Analytically minded: you know that you can't say that something is a success or failure without measuring it
Introspective: you are constantly looking to evolve your own skill set, including reaching out into other areas such as UX and the agile process

Bonus Points

Experience with the latest (widely supported) HTML5 & CSS3 APIs
Experience with serverless development, serverless framework, CDK
Understanding of Agile principles
Experience with SPAs/PWAs
Comfortable with git, and source management tools (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab)

Technologies

Datastores (MySql, Dynamo, Redis, S3)
Cloud Services (AWS, Cloudflare)
Infrastructure orchestration (Serverless, Cloudformation)
CI/CD Pipeline (Codeship, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines)
Static websites (GatsbyJs, Contentful, Astro, )
ReactJS (Redux, Redux-Sagas, React-Router)
TDD/BDD (Jest, Chai, Mocha, Enzyme, Cypress, TestCafe)
NodeJS (Express)
Docker (Docker-Compose)
Canvas (PixiJS, )
HTML5 & CSS technologies
Webpack, NPM

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Benefits

We believe in a work-life balance. We know broken boilers and sick families are all part of life which sometimes coincide with work. If you work hard when you're here you get respect and flexibility in return but we have a lot more on offer:

Private healthcare insurance
Health cash plan
Life cover
Income protection
Pension scheme
Free lunch Wednesdays
Learning & training support
Bike to work scheme
Payroll charitable giving
Charity/fundraising sponsorship