Junior Software Engineer

Hi, we’re Kitt - a managed office operator that partners with landlords to deliver an all-inclusive experience for tenants to find, design, move-in and thrive in their perfect space. A Kitt office is one that brings people together, elevates your culture and ultimately delivers space for you to do your best work - we think that’s pretty cool.

The Role

Reporting directly into one of our Senior Engineers, you’ll be working on the full spectrum of our product range. This is a full stack role where you will have exposure to all parts of our system so it’s a great opportunity to advance in each part of your development skills.

You will be:

• Creating new microservices for new features and managing the complexity of a resilient distributed system.
• Designing data structures that are easy for our data team to interrogate.
• Iterating on our office marketplace product to help digitise our office spaces and create an interactive design experience.
• Implementing systems to ensure site reliability, such as unified tracing and monitoring.
• Adding features to our tenant native app and web app to create a seamless experience for them within their office.
• Providing our internal team the tools they need to manage their offices as effectively as possible, such as working on our "virtual receptionist" product that enables them to answer intercom callers remotely.
• Building tools to empower our sales team to manage the whole sales process from capturing leads to offer made, gathering insightful data along the way.
• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders to take product feedback.

• Contributing to our in house design system and component library.

About you

• A junior engineer, you’ve recently graduated or completed a coding course, and you have experience working with a strongly-type language (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.)
• Solving complex problems gives you a buzz, you have a product mindset and care about the customer experience.
• Ambitious and eager to work in a friendly startup with a wide-reaching ambition: to transform every space so that it best serves people and their purposes.
• You want to be a part of a high-performing engineering team that is effective, enables engineers to focus on their strengths and supports them in their weaknesses.
• You make a positive impact on your team's code quality and architecture.

Our Stack:

This is the technology that we use, but we’re not expecting you to be an expert in all of these areas yet as a junior, and would help to develop your skills.

• Golang
• Kubernetes
• Graphq.l
• React.js
• Protobuf & PubSub
• Terraform
• Mysql, prostrgres, redshift
• Git
• Elastic search
• AWS

Why Kitt?

Whether it be our Leasing Managers helping tenants to find the perfect location, our Interior Designers bringing the space to life, or our Space Partners arranging the coffee and cleaning once moved in - our team do it all, so that our tenants can focus on their business.

We are on a mission to empower companies to thrive in their own tailored, hassle-free space. In less than 3 years we have grown to become London’s biggest Managed operator (by number of buildings) and we’re just getting started.

We’re a well funded scale-up backed by one of London’s top venture capital investors (Hoxton Ventures). We partner provide our customers with bespoke managed offices that they can call their own; using the latest technology to help digitise the space and automate the management of their experience (Using 3D property scans, VR designs, virtual receptionists, an App and a services marketplace to name a few). We’re leading the charge in an unexplored segment that spends $1tn a year on workspace.

Interview Process

The interview process for this role will include 3 stages:

1. Take-Home Task
2. Telephone Interview with Leila Bennett (Talent Acquisition Executive)
3. Final Interview with Leo Mak (Head of Engineering) and Theo Messenger-Jones (Senior Software Engineer)

We’ll Kitt you out

• Generous stock option scheme (ask us what this means if you’re not sure)
• 28 days holidays a year plus Bank Holidays
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employer-supported childcare vouchers
• Quarterly company away days
• Weekly team lunch
• Annual company trips
• Team socials on a Friday