Job Description
About Bark
Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.
Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 220 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.
This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently ranked 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.
As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll become a core part of our small, highly agile team which is responsible for transforming our product. AB testing and test-measure-learn approaches are close to our heart and you will work equally across figuring out solutions to user problems and how we will scale our technical systems.
You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of working fast to develop prototypes and iterating to find the optimal result. You’ll work across our tech stack to solve a variety of challenges from our back-end processes (PHP and Python), to our APIs (PHP and Python), to our front-end product (React, Typescript, Javascript).
We are in the middle of transforming and modernising our technology stack so you will have the opportunity and be encouraged to contribute to new technology decisions, helping to shape our technology strategy, adapting our architecture as we grow.
Responsibilities
Translation of UX/UI designs into production quality product experiences, using our proposed Front End stack (React, Typescript)
Build elegant and performant APIs and Front End solution
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase
Mentor other engineers to support their growth
Design and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a second
Collaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A/B and MVP testing and development specifications
Required Skills and Experience
- 5+ years experience as a Full Stack Engineer working with Javascript (React), PHP and/or Python
- Experience building scalable, high-performing web applications
- Production MySQL experience; strong SQL skills
- Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting APIs to be used by other developers both internally and externally
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Desired skills and experience
Experience working with Python, particularly with FastAPI
Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS
Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar such as RabbitMQ), SNS (or Kafka), and how they are used
Experience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar
Perks and Benefits
- Share options in a rapidly growing company whose founders have a proven track record and are Private Equity backed
- Flexible working policy with a central office in London
- Private health insurance run by Aviva including dental cover
- Personal annual L&D Budgets with £1,000 to spend on your development
- Enhanced Gympass membership for all employees with access to mental health courses and fitness classes
- Fully stocked kitchen and monthlylunches
- Financial advisor
- Cycle to work scheme
- Regular wellness weeks with industry leading talks through to massages in the office
- Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve
Interview Process
- Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
- 1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30/45 mins)
- 2nd Stage - Technical Task (60 mins)
- 3rd Stage - Values interview (45/60 mins)
Diversity Statement
At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.