Move Mee is unlocking the future of mobility with a unique phone-as-a-key solution. Set up by successful entrepreneurs from the worlds of car rental, car sharing and digital marketplaces, Move Mee has partnered with some of the biggest names in travel and automotive supply to transform the way people get around. With £1m in seed funding we’re now looking to expand our team and take the minimum viable product to the most valuable app.
We are looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team on a full-time basis. You will have robust knowledge across front and back end stack, with particular fluency in VueJS and the Laravel PHP framework. You’ll be quick, accurate and have an intuitive understanding for user experience; you’ll be contributing to the biggest leap forward in mobility for a generation.
Our front end is built in Vue.js and the backends are PHP, using the Laravel framework. We use tools like Cloudflare, Forge, Algolia, StyleCI and Envoyer to make our lives easier.
The Role
You will be involved in the whole product lifecycle; from analysing & scoping requirements, through architecting solutions and up to development, scaling and supporting the apps. Your influence will run throughout the product and you will clearly see the impact you are making.
You will be comfortable working Agile and liaising with the product owner and business analysts to make sure the right solutions are created.
You will need the ability to successfully prioritise a varied workload, including working to multiple deadlines. You will responsible for managing your own time and the time and priorities of the wider team.
As a senior member of our team you will be comfortable organising other team members workloads, creating issues & tasks for them to work on and peer reviewing the resulting work. You will be an integral part of the workflow process, signing off others work before it goes live. You’ll be the kind of person that sees the opportunity in changing requirements and prioritisation (i.e. not the problem) and can positively lead others when required to pivot.
You will be expected to bring expert knowledge on development best practices and help to guide the team on how to achieve these high standards. You will be able to set up, and be responsible for, our front end tooling.
You will know your Gherkin from your Cucumber and be completely comfortable delivering test driven development , on both the front end and back end of the stack.
We understand that things change quickly and want you to remain at the bleeding edge, pushing us to keep pace and move all of our projects forwards in a timely manner. You would have a training budget available to keep you up-to-date and you will be encouraged to use it.
Must haves:
- Test Driven Development - Front End
- Test Driven Development - Back End
- Ability to discuss requirements, architect a solution and explain this to your colleagues and clients
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment
- Javascript master - ideally Vue.js
- Comfortable creating and managing a front end tool set
- Front end performance, CDNs, caching, page speed, inlining SVGs etc.
- Version Control workflows using Github or similar
- Know HTML5, SASS, CSS inside out
- Excellent knowledge of PHP and Laravel
- A keen eye for detail to make sure our apps look like our designs and create great user experiences; including complex styling and animations
- Not afraid to fail and always looking to learn from those failures
- Able to create complex single page web applications with Vue.js
- Leader in architecture decisions like state management and server side rendering
- Complete understanding of APIs and how frontends and backends interact
- Comfortable developing shared components that leverage modern JavaScript design patterns
- Able to prototype solutions with design that can eventually scale to larger solutions
Nice to haves:
- Dev Ops (AWS & Digital Ocean)
- Experience with Sketch and other UI tools.
- Knowledge of running dev environments through Docker
- Experience building Chatbots or working on Machine Learning
- Front end performance, CDNs, caching, page speed etc.
- Dev Ops (AWS & Digital Ocean)
Perks:
- Brand New Mac Book Pro - you get to open the lovely packaging!
- The necessary screen and USB adapters for the above
- You can work from home, but will be expected to make an office visit at least once or twice a week
- Flexible working hours considered, but you will need to be available for a daily morning stand up call
- Yearly training budget is available for conferences and courses
- Standing desk in the office
- Company Pension
- 28 days holiday a year + your birthday off
- Salary is negotiable and will depend on your experience and skills
First stage interview is a telephone chat so that you can learn more.