Feast It is using technology to build a better global events industry.
We’ve built a curated platform connecting the best suppliers to the most exciting events, from dinner parties for 20, to nationwide virtual events for 2,000, and right up to the UK’s most famous festivals. We believe that every event deserves incredible food, drink and entertainment and we are building the technology to unlock it for everyone.
We’ve brought together an incredible community of the nation’s finest event suppliers, from independent photographers, mixologists and florists, to the finest chefs and restaurants in the world such as Nobu, Bao, and Honest Burger. And yes, joining us means a lot of free food and tickets to events...
Only four years into our journey, our clients include everyone from Amazon, Nike and London Pride, to Tom Cruise, Star Wars and Taylor Swift. We have seen nothing but rapid growth and were named the 7th most exciting startup in the UK in 2020, were finalists in the 2019 Natwest Entrepreneur Awards, have been featured in pretty much every major publication including; The Guardian, The Times, Techcrunch, The FT and have been named in the top 15 in Tempo’s 50 Best Places to Work. We have also attracted more than £5m in funding over multiple rounds from some of the UK’s finest investors including Tim Score (Chairman of British Land), MAHR Projects, Ascension Ventures, Guy Berryman (member of Coldplay) and Richard Pennycook (Chairman of On The Beach and Boparen, former THG Chair) who has joined us as Chair.
About the role:
The Role
Do you want to work in a tech-first business which is changing and disrupting an industry?
Do you love working in a business full of intelligent, talented, innovative and friendly people?
How about working for a company that creates meaningful events and memories that last a lifetime?
And finally...what about working as Development Team Lead and playing a defining part in our business as we push forward to our next growth phase?
Then maybe we should talk!
We are looking for a Development Team Lead to oversee our Supply Squad. It is a really exciting time to join as we are about to undergo another growth spurt in the new year, and you’ll oversee some fascinating changes.
What You Will Be Doing
- You'll manage a small product squad of 3 - 4 developers with the support of the CTO to make sure the team has everything they need to deliver sprints.
- We have some challenging and thrilling projects to deliver next year. Onboarding new vendors, an international launch, refactoring existing services and building new significant features for our marketplace platform.
- You will be a key contributor in helping the platform team and product squads evolve to have tighter remits and a clearer view and control of their delivery pipelines.
- There are loads of decisions to make, lots of process optimisations, and lots of prep work to do for next year. There’s plenty of greenfield work, plenty of tech debt, plenty to get your hands dirty with
-This role will report directly to our CTO to ensure our technology is supporting and leading in everything we do. This person will be a technical and product evangelist within the wider team and will work to develop a best in class product and contribute to technical strategy.
What's In It For You?
- We think you will like our engineering culture. It is one of pace, ownership and safety. Our processes and tech stack ensure our Devs can recover quickly, learn and adapt when things break or fail.
- Progression. We want you to grow, develop with us and achieve the next milestone in your career
- Flexibility. If you want to work 100% remotely, that's cool. If you want to come and visit our offices, then great! But it's down to you.
- The opportunity to work in a business that is twice the size it was last year is continuing to grow. You will play a massive part in our future and growth.
Requirements
We’re looking for someone who can design technology and processes that will allow people to move quickly but facilitate growth. We avoid over or under-engineering where possible, and you’ll lead the team to do the same.
You are highly autonomous; you take ownership of problems and find solutions or delegate problems effectively.
You have plenty of experience building and implementing large-scale systems across various projects.
Technical
- Have worked with Redux or similar in a professional workplace
- Comfortable designing RESTful APIs and working with FE team members to develop solutions
- Have experience with React (React hooks, Context API, Suspense) in a professional setting
- Have good knowledge of testing practises, and can test a module with unit tests efficiently
Communication
Excellent technical communication skills - you can explain highly technical concepts to the broader business.
You are comfortable presenting our department’s progress to senior management.
You keep relevant parties up to date on the progress of projects and any blockers, and you ensure that the wider team are doing the same.
We use the following Tools and Technologies:
- JavaScript/TypeScript for writing the bulk of our application code
- React, Next.js, GraphQL and Vercel for our front-end applications
- Node.js and Express for our API runtime and framework
- Postgres for our databases
- Sequelize for our ORM between our applications to our databases
- Docker for bundling up our applications and deploying them to the world
- AWS / Vercel for our infrastructure, including S3, RDS, RedShift, CodePipeline, Elasticache, and ECS (managed with Terraform)
Benefits
We are passionate about equal opportunities and improving the tech industry for the better, so if you are from an underrepresented background then we would particularly love to hear from you.
This role is available fully remote in the UK or hybrid, visiting our London office as often as you want.
- Join an award-winning, fast-scaling start-up on the next part of our journey
- Generous holiday allowance
- Pension contribution
- Generous option awards
- Invites and ticket to food and event industry events
- Significant discounts at London’s best restaurants and bars
- We are a climate positive workforce through our partner Ecologi
- You’ll be part of a fun and passionate team who genuinely enjoy each other’s company