Full Stack Developer (Product Engineer / Developer)

What does Florence do?

Florence is building the technology to power the health and social care workforce. From first revenue in 2017, we have grown to a team of 100+ people across the UK. Our goal is to become a category defining tech company that empowers the entire health and social care workforce across the UK and internationally.

Engineering culture

• We have real input into the product’s development and work closely with people from around the business to offer suggestions and ideas
• We tend to keep projects small. We favour rapid iteration and learning over big releases
• We’re happy to throw out a solution if it does not help our customers
• We’re open to ideas from across the business and regularly update our roadmaps to prioritise the most pressing needs
• We encourage software engineers to embrace data and to care about the success of the product
• We encourage learning and development. You get a budget to spend on books and courses and we have a learning day on the last Friday of every month

Our tech stack

• Infrastructure: Heroku
• Backend: Ruby on Rails / Postgres / redis
• Frontend: React
• Mobile apps: Flutter

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work with the rest of the Product team and a range of stakeholders to develop and improve one or more of the following products:

• Florence Flex: our core product at Florence, is a marketplace that connects care providers with nurses and care workers looking for flexible shifts. This product has an annual turnover of £80m and is used by more than 2,000 care providers across the UK. Nurses and carers have worked over 2 million hours and earned more than £25 million by booking shifts through Florence Flex.
• Florence Rota: is our shift management SaaS product for care homes to manage their own staff internally. Care providers use this to save time and to ensure that they always have the staff they need to provide care for their residents.
• Florence Academy: provides online training for nurses and carers. People from around the world use this product to develop the skills needed to provide the best possible care for those who need it. Care providers use this to provide training for their in-house care staff.

Who are we?

We’re a team of Software Engineers, Product designers and Product managers with a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Our most recent Product manager was promoted from our customer success team and we have team members who’ve graduated from bootcamps such as General Assembly. You can learn more about some of the people who work here on our blog.

What’s the interview process like?

Our interview process is simple, just two rounds and no coding tests.

The first round is a chat with our CTO and a software engineer - there will be some “tell us about a time when…” questions around your experience building web applications and plenty of opportunities for you to find out more about Florence.

The second round is a chat with one of our product managers and someone else from the team. This is more informal and gives you an opportunity to meet more of the team. We'll talk through one of the product challenges we're tackling at the moment and get some of your thoughts and ideas.

For more junior candidates (< 1 year experience) we may in addition ask you to undertake a brief code review of some sample code, highlighting what it does, and any areas you would improve it.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (pro rata) + 8 Bank holidays and holiday roll over / buy more holiday scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Learning budget with Learnerbly
• Private Healthcare
• Employee Assistance Programme in place
• Opportunity to contribute to growth in an early stage startup
• Fun, friendly and collaborative startup office environment
• Regular company and social outings
• Quarterly hackathons
• Monthly Friday learning day

Equal opportunities at Florence

We promote an environment for our staff and app users that welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, races, religions, genders, sexual identities, abilities, and personal circumstances, in a spirit of inclusivity and belonging.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and believe we find our strength in our diversity. If you require any accommodation to assist you in the interview process, please submit this with your enquiry.

We offer competitive salaries within a flexible, empathetic and highly collaborative working environment. If you are motivated by the prospect of a career with a forward-thinking tech company committed to inclusion, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join our Product Team. You will be working alongside a dynamic and innovative team, specifically focusing on building and maintaining our core product, Florence Flex.