Software Engineer

The role 👩‍💻

The team is dedicated to using modern development practices to rapidly experiment, iterate and deliver end-to-end solutions to their customers in a matter of hours and days. You must be passionate about product and delivering results for customers.

You should have a solid understanding of mobile development practices, either native, React Native or NativeScript. Additionally, understand Web APIs and building projects at scale.

You will work alongside the Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Product Officer to lead the technology side of the business growing, giving serious input to how we grow our technology organisation. You will lead feature development, take part in design discussions and present your ideas long term changes. You will also be involved in some pair programming, mentoring and help us scale our engineering team.

What you will do 🏋️‍♀️

• Take responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core GoRoadie Pro and GoRoadie.com features end to end, for maximum customer and business impact
• Work at all levels of the technology stack. We work with NativeScript/Angular, AWS, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, SQL and Node.JS. Time will be upskill in these specific technologies, experience is a bonus.
• Work with the core team to build features in hours and day, to a high level of quality that ultimately improves the lives of our customers.
• You will be responsible for learning and demonstrating mobile and web application best practices and ensuring high standards in performance, stability and architecture.
• As part of a startup, you will wear multiple hats and be involved in more than software engineering. You will receive ownership of tasks and features from idea generation, business requirements and technical design, through to software development using the latest technologies and design patterns.

What you’ll need 🙇‍♂️

• An entrepreneurial mindset and ability to thrive in a startup environment is critical. Think about how we can deliver value to our customers in the most lean and efficient way possible.
• The ability to prioritise and manage your workload, you know when to change focus to prioritise business critical bugs verus on-going feature development.
• To be a software engineering generalist with at least three years of industry experience who is willing to learn new technologies and apply them in a fast changing environment.
• You have experience in developing mobile apps and web apps, and understand the full agile/lean development life-cycle.
• To be a person that is keen to continue learning and to keep growing. You will accept critique and will seek out challenges as a way to grow. In doing so, you will have the full support of the founders of the business.

About Us

GoRoadie builds technology that connects learner drivers with their ideal driving instructor and helps driving instructor manage their day-to-day admin.

Our mission is to give learner drivers unparalleled choice, with confidence and security, in order to meet their goal of independence. For driving instructors, we are committed to improving their quality of life, saving them time, money and effort.

Why choose GoRoadie 😎

• By joining as one of the earliest employees, there is enormous opportunity ahead for you to shape and take the next leap in your career.
• The salary for this role is £40,000 to £50,000 depending on experience. This will increase as we expect the business to achieve significant growth in the next 12 months.
• As an early employee, you will receive share options in the business.
• Benefits include 30 days paid annual leave, unlimited sick days, and pension programme. You will use the latest Apple M1 Macbook Pro.
• We are culture focused, we review and change our ways of working based on what our employees needs are. Make this your dream place to work.
• You’ll be joining a sharp, motivated remote team. We check-in every day and want to ensure we have fun whilst achieving incredible results.

The hiring process 📅

1. 30 minute introductory video call to solve a technical challenge
2. Send us one of your GitHub code project that you are proud and that demostrates your abilty.
3. 2-hour video interview with the team. We will:
   • Answer your questions
   • Discuss your work history
   • Complete a pair programming code exercise
   • Dive into the GoRoadie culture

How to apply 💌

Email jobs@goroadie.com with your name and the role you are most interested in as the subject, e.g. "Lucille Bluth - Software Engineer".

Our values 👏

🚗💨 Hours and days, not weeks and months - We want to work fast, and get results quickly. We also balance speed with quality to ensure our customers love our products.

🙏 People first - Our customers are at the forefront of what we do everyday. This is a great and safe place to do your best work. We push each other to be the best versions of ourselves and treat each other with respect, at all times.

💪 Ownership - You’re responsible for what you put out to our customers. If you have an idea, you run with it. It's okay to take risks as long as we understand what we will learn. You work here because you want to be trusted with autonomy and make a difference.

📈 Share results - We work in a transparent organisation that uses data as to aid our decision making. We set ourselves ambitious targets and we share the results of that and we openly talk about the learnings - what worked and what didn't so that we can improve next time.

📄 Communicate clearly - As we are a remote first organisation, we need to communicate in a clear, specific manner whilst providing the relevant details succinctly. We don't assume the other person has the data or view point that you do.

Our commitment to diversity 💝

GoRoadie are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and encourages applications from any race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.