Job Description
Mission: Our mission is to elevate later life and build the later living sector of the future
Team: Engineering, Marketplace team
️ Title: Software Engineer, (Full Stack JavaScript, React + Node)
Salary: £55,000 - £100,000 (depending on experience and seniority)
Benefits: 26 days holiday and a range of other benefits. See here
Equity: We have a generous EMI share scheme that all team members will participate in
Office Policy: Hybrid (Minimum 2 core days per week in the office)
Location: London
Interview Process: 3 stages (incl. a take home assessment). Talent Screen > Hiring Manager Interview > Technical Assessment Interview > Final interview with our Founders
Candidate Experience: Please note with the volume of applicants there may be a delay in response time. The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible
A quick intro to Lottie
Lottie is a HealthTech start-up, founded by brother duo, Chris and Will Donnelly. Our mission is to elevate later life for everybody and build the later living sector of the future. To date, Lottie has raised over £20m, from leading Venture Capital Funds including Accel, General Catalyst and Kindred, as well as global tech executives including Tom Blomfield (Founder of Monzo Bank) and Dave Wascha (CPTO of Zoopla).
Lottie launched in August 2021 and today offers three core products and services, including:
- Lottie’s Marketplace (B2B2C) - A free service that helps families and retirees find the UK’s best care homes and retirement living properties.
- Found by Lottie (B2B) - CRM software mapped to the care and retirement living industries unique customer journey.
- Seniorcare by Lottie (B2B) - Employee benefits platform, helping corporates deliver outstanding eldercare support to their employees.
Since launching, Lottie has now supported hundreds of thousands of families navigate the stressful later living system, while helping thousands begin their next chapter in later life.
The opportunity
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering function. It’s a passionate, growing team and one that values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action. We want people to take responsibility and contribute to product decisions and be part of the future of what we build at Lottie.. On a personal level there’s ample opportunity to have impact and develop your career within a fast growing, mission driven Tech company.
We work in cross-functional product teams across several key products - Our Marketplace, an exciting Saas product and Seniorcare. We've also started building internal tools to supercharge our customer-facing and partner-facing teams. We want to help bring technology to every corner of the care home sector to improve the experiences of care-seekers, residents and care homes… and our Engineering team is central to our mission.
What you’ll be doing
- Help build our technology from the ground up - working on our high traffic B2C site that leverages some of the newest technologies
- Work across the the stack to build out our market leading products - we want engineers to own the systems they create and have the principle of “you build it, you run it”
- Contribute to decision making while collaborating with the wider product team.
- Work with the PM, designers and business stakeholders to help review user feedback and build user driven products.
- Own the development of new features from conception to completion.
Why this might be exciting
- High degree of autonomy in a role that has potential to grow as the company grows.
- Working across different elements of our flagship Marketplace Product
- We’re product and user focused, allowing you to see the impact your work is having.
- Regular hack days and a flexible L+D budget to help make you a better Engineer.
Who we’re looking for
- Prior experience with (at least some of) our stack - JavaScript, React, Node would be useful but not required. If you like to get your hands dirty on new things we will help skill you up
- Enjoys working in cross functional teams - PMs, UX, Designers and Data.
- An appreciation for using the right tool for the right job - we use AWS, Golang, Typescript, Prisma, Strapi amongst many other things
- Product focused and empathetic towards the users of our product.
We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.