Senior Full Stack Engineer (Talent Pool)

At Beam, our vision is to create a more just society by building radically better services and technology for those most in need.

We've already transformed the lives of hundreds of homeless people by supporting them through training, into rewarding work and stable homes.

We've done that by crowdfunding almost £2 million from over 10,000 supporters and building genuinely ground-breaking products.

We're a wildly ambitious team, backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and led by a hugely experienced, hands-on founding team.

We're a crew of friendly, collaborative problem-solvers who live by our core values of transparency and supporting each other.

We also get to do some fun things - like go to Downing Street 😄

And we're seriously just getting started. Read more about our company culture in Beam Life.

Life as a Developer at Beam

All roles work closely with Julian (that's me, the guy who built Beam!) to help shape and build the future of our tools and products. We're going to be hiring again later this year and wanted to allow Engineers to stay connected with us.

You and I would spend a lot of time pair programming, brainstorming hard problems, prototyping different ideas, throwing them away, and prototyping them again. You wouldn't be just churning through tickets in a backlog — you'd be helping to design entirely new products, figuring out what exactly we're even building and why.

You'd spend your time developing and improving existing projects, for example:

• Building internal tools for our team to help as many people as efficiently as possible
• An entirely new onboarding flow for our beneficiaries
• Giving increased transparency to our supporters on the impact of their donations
• Snazzy reporting products giving unprecedented insights for government customers
• Optimising our products so that they are snappy and performant for all of our users

Check out this interview with one of Beam's Full Stack Engineers on the Beam blog.

What tech do we use?

Our priority is to ship maintainable, reliable systems. To date we've done that using:

• Ruby on Rails on the back-end
• Vue JS, Tailwind CSS and ERB for front-end
• Heroku, AWS for hosting 
• PostgreSQL for databases
• RSpec, Sidekiq, Stripe, Twilio, Slack, Mailchimp

You should apply if 

• You’re already a great Ruby developer, well versed in engineering best practices, including version control, test-driven development and continuous integration
• You have at least 4+ years engineering experience in a high-growth tech startup or leading global tech company
• You write clean, performant and well-documented code
• You have experience building web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack
• You care about building reliable, well-tested systems
• You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
• You have an entrepreneurial, get things done attitude 
• You'll contribute to fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, collaboration and continuous improvement within the team through participation in retrospectives and feedback
• You're passionate about social mobility