OLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and their mission is to solve the problem of food waste in the home and local community, at scale.OLIO solves this problem with their award-winning mobile and web app and they now have just under 6 million users who have given away 34 million portions of food and 3 million household items in their non-food section. Reducing food waste has been identified as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. 🌎 🌱Their bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030. Do you want to be part of this amazing challenge as their Senior React Native Developer?‍THE ROLE:<ul><li>Working on the development of OLIO's Android, iOS and web apps.</li><li>Helping to maintain and improve OLIO's React Native stack.</li><li>Revamping, fixing, testing and launching new features for OLIO's mobile app.</li><li>Contributing into projects that delivers value to OLIO's users.</li></ul>YOU WILL HAVE:<ul><li>A proven track record developing large scale React Native applications</li><li>Familiarisation using and improving build and automation tools</li><li>Unit and integration testing new features</li><li>Evaluating new technologies and seeing if/how they could benefit our products and processes</li><li>A ‘product manager’ mind-set, which means you seek to improve specs and designs where possible</li><li>Ability to work with/learn new technologies/languages/frameworks as they arise</li></ul>‍OLIO are BIG on their values and are looking for people who are:<ul><li>Mission obsessed</li><li>Self-starters with a ‘can-do’ attitude</li><li>Resourceful and creative</li><li>Thorough, but able to move quickly and decisively</li><li>A ruthless ability to prioritise</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li><li>Fun to work with ☺</li></ul>‍OLIO BENEFITS 🤩🚀“Remote first” flexible working around your home and life commitments.🚀 Unlimited annual leave (so long as you take your statutory and get your work done!)🚀Equity - we want you to be part of our success!🚀Monthly in real life and virtual socials, (adapted to engagement preferences), plus Summer and Christmas parties.🚀Mental health support via the InsideOut app (including free 1:1 counselling or coaching sessions).🚀And much more!OLIO have an incredibly strong culture and was last year listed as a Top 5 place to work by Escape The City. They live for their mission, but like to have fun along the way! ⚡️

Senior React Developer

OLIO - Senior React Native Developer ABOUT OLIOOLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and their mission is to solve the problem of food waste in the home and local community, at scale.  Reducing food waste has been identified as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.OLIO solves this problem with their award-winning mobile and web app and they now have just under 6 million users who have given away 34 million portions of food and 3 million household items in their non-food section. Their bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030. Do you want to be part of this amazing challenge as their Senior React Native Developer?OLIO have an incredibly strong culture and was last year listed as a top 5 place to work by Escape The City. They live for their mission, but like to have fun along the way!‍THE ROLE:● Working on the development of OLIO's Android, iOS and web apps.● Helping maintain and improve OLIO's React Native stack.● Re-vamping, fixing, testing and launching new features to create the best customer experience ever!Technologies OLIO work with:● React Native ● React navigation ● Redux ● Google Maps ● React native testing library ● Datadog ● Mixpanel/Airship ● Ruby on Rails ● AWSMEET THE OLIO TECH TEAM:YOU WILL HAVE:● A proven track record developing large scale React Native applications● Familiarisation using and improving build and automation tools● Unit and integration testing new features● Evaluating new technologies and seeing if/how they could benefit our products and processes● A ‘product manager’ mind-set, which means you seek to improve specs and designs where possible● Ability to work with/learn new technologies/languages/frameworks as they arise‍OLIO are BIG on their values and are looking for people who are:● Mission obsessed● Collaborative and caring● Resourceful and creative● Thorough, but able to move quickly and decisively● A ruthless ability to prioritise● Champions of Diversity● Fun to work with ☺‍OLIO BENEFITS:🚀 “Remote first” flexible working around your home and life commitments.🚀 Unlimited annual leave (so long as you take your statutory and get your work done!)🚀 Equity - we want you to be part of our success!🚀 Monthly in real life and virtual socials, (adapted to engagement preferences), plus Summer and Christmas parties.🚀 Mental health support via the InsideOut app (including free 1:1 counselling or coaching sessions).🚀 And much more!

Senior React Native Developer

OLIO's ideal candidate will first and foremost be as passionate about OLIO's mission as they are! In addition to this, you will have the following attributes:Main Responsibilities● Set technical standards and best practices for the team and lead front end feature development● Architect and help set the technical direction for large-scale React and React Native web applications using AWS Cloud services● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and design features with user privacy and security at top of mind● Participate in all aspects of software development activities including design, scoping, coding, code review, unit-testing and bug fixing● Work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product, Design, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision● Explore and prototype new technologies to incorporate into the development effort‍Essential Experience● Experience building mobile apps using react-native (both iOS and Android platforms with regards to: store submission processes, push notifications)● Work as a hands-on lead with strong mobile architecture and development experience in mobile native apps for entire software development lifecycle.●Experience working with RESTful APIs, JavaScript and Flow/Typescript● Agile processes and Test Driven Development, ideally in a multiple team environment‍Nice to have experience● Experience working in companies during hyper growth● Experience with automated UI testing.● Experience with some of the specific client side tools and libraries we already use:  Redux, React-navigation, Storybook, React-native-web‍

Technical Lead

Job Description*Salary range is starting at £85,000-DOE.*Be a part of the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, building communities to reduce global waste!Did you know that over one third of all the food we produce gets thrown away, which is worth over $1trillion?Join OLIO’s ambitious team who the UN have highlighted as a ‘beacon for the world’, and help them achieve their goal of 1 billion OLIOers by 2030 to mitigate the worsteffects of the climate crisis.OLIO are looking for a mobile/react-native lead to steer their Android and iOS app development in the Community Team. You will help to define and implement the strategic direction of the app and collaborate with engineers to ship code continuously. You will partner with engineers and the product team to drive best practices, success criteria and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.You will lead a team of 8 other React developers, ensuring that the development processes are optimised and provide an amazing user experience. You have the passion for architecting delightful, intuitive front-end applications that are responsive and easy to learn and use. You take pride in building both a system and writing great code as well as being a role model to others.IS THIS YOU?OLIO's ideal candidate will first and foremost be as passionate about OLIO's mission as they are! In addition to this, you will have the following attributes:Main Responsibilities● Set technical standards and best practices for the team and lead front end feature development● Architect and help set the technical direction for large-scale React and React Native web applications using AWS Cloud services● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and design features with user privacy and security at top of mind● Participate in all aspects of software development activities including design, scoping, coding, code review, unit-testing and bug fixing● Work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product, Design, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision● Explore and prototype new technologies to incorporate into the development effortEssential Experience● Experience building mobile apps using react-native (both iOS and Android platforms with regards to: store submission processes, push notifications)● Work as a hands-on lead with strong mobile architecture and development experience in mobile native apps for entire software development lifecycle.●Experience working with RESTful APIs, JavaScript and Flow/Typescript● Agile processes and Test Driven Development, ideally in a multiple team environment‍Nice to have experience● Experience working in companies during hyper growth● Experience with automated UI testing.● Experience with some of the specific client side tools and libraries we already use:  Redux, React-navigation, Storybook, React-native-web

TECHNICAL LEAD AT OLIOBe a part of the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, building communities to reduce global waste!Did you know that over one third of all the food we produce gets thrown away, which is worth over $1trillion?Join OLIO’s ambitious team who the UN have highlighted as a ‘beacon for the world’, and help them achieve their goal of 1 billion OLIOers by 2030 to mitigate the worsteffects of the climate crisis.OLIO are looking for a mobile/react-native lead to steer their Android and iOS app development in the Community Team. You will help to define and implement the strategic direction of the app and collaborate with engineers to ship code continuously. You will partner with engineers and the product team to drive best practices, success criteria and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.You will lead a team of 8 other React developers, ensuring that the development processes are optimised and provide an amazing user experience. You have the passion for architecting delightful, intuitive front-end applications that are responsive and easy to learn and use. You take pride in building both a system and writing great code as well as being a role model to others.‍IS THIS YOU?OLIO's ideal candidate will first and foremost be as passionate about OLIO's mission as they are! In addition to this, you will have the following attributes:Main Responsibilities:<ul><li>Set technical standards and best practices for the team and lead front end feature development</li><li>Architect and help set the technical direction for large-scale React and React Native web applications using AWS Cloud services</li><li>Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and design features with user privacy and security at top of mind</li><li>Participate in all aspects of software development activities including design, scoping, coding, code review, unit-testing and bug fixing</li><li>Work closely with the Engineering Manager, Product, Design, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision</li><li>Explore and prototype new technologies to incorporate into the development effort</li></ul>Essential Experience:<ul><li>Experience building mobile apps using react-native (both iOS and Android platforms with regards to: store submission processes, push notifications)</li><li>Work as a hands-on lead with strong mobile architecture and development experience in mobile native apps for entire software development lifecycle.</li><li>Experience working with RESTful APIs, JavaScript and Flow/Typescript</li><li>Agile processes and Test Driven Development, ideally in a multiple team environment‍</li></ul>Nice to have experience:<ul><li>Experience working in companies during hyper growth</li><li>Experience with automated UI testing.</li><li>Experience with some of the specific client side tools and libraries OLIO already use: Redux, React-navigation, Storybook, React-native-web</li></ul>

Please note whilst remote, this position requires you to be based in the UK 6 months of the year thus a valid UK working visa is required. About OLIOOLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and their mission is to solve the problem of food waste in the home and local community, at scale.  Reducing food waste has been identified as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.OLIO solves this problem with their award-winning mobile and web app and they now have just under 6 million users who have given away 34 million portions of food and 3 million household items in their non-food section. Their bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030. Do you want to be part of this amazing challenge as their Ruby on Rails Developer?THE ROLE:You will be helping to build new features and improve OLIOs current systems. OLIO are now starting to see massive growth in their user base, so a key priority will be to increase the capacity and resilience of their systems while delivering on new and exciting projects. Your day-to-day will be helping to maintain and improve OLIO's RoR stack and you will be working on their web portal to support their Food waste heroes!Technologies OLIO work with:● Ruby on Rails ● AWS (Aurora / S3 / cloudfront / ELB / ECR / Cloudwatch / Lambda / Fargate) ● Docker ● Redis ● Travis-CI ● Sidekiq ● Activeadmin ● Google maps / mixpanel / mailgun / trevor.ioMEET THE TECH TEAM:YOU WILL HAVE:<ul><li>A proven track record developing large scale Ruby-On-Rails applications</li><li>Familiarisation with using and improving build and automation tools</li><li>Unit and integration testing new features</li><li>Evaluating new technologies and seeing if/how they could benefit our products and processes</li><li>A ‘product manager’ mind-set, which means you seek to improve specs and designs where possible</li><li>Ability to work with/learn new technologies/languages/frameworks as they arise</li></ul>OLIO are BIG on their values and are looking for people who are:<ul><li>Mission obsessed</li><li>Collaborative and caring</li><li>Resourceful and creative</li><li>Thorough, but able to move quickly and decisively</li><li>A ruthless ability to prioritise</li><li>Champions of Diversity</li><li>Fun to work with ☺</li></ul>OLIO BENEFITS:<ul><li>🚀“Remote first” flexible working around your home and life commitments.</li><li>🚀 Unlimited annual leave (so long as you take your statutory and get your work done!)</li><li>🚀Equity - we want you to be part of our success!</li><li>🚀Monthly in real life and virtual socials, (adapted to engagement preferences), plus Summer and Christmas parties.</li><li>🚀Mental health support via the InsideOut app (including free 1:1 counselling or coaching sessions).</li><li>🚀And much more!</li></ul>OLIO have an incredibly strong culture and was last year listed as a top 5 place to work by Escape The City. They live for their mission, but like to have fun along the way!

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

OLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and their mission is to solve the problem of food waste in the home and local community, at scale.  Reducing food waste has been identified as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.OLIO solves this problem with their award-winning mobile and web app and they now have just under 6 million users who have given away 34 million portions of food and 3 million household items in their non-food section. Their bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030. Do you want to be part of this amazing challenge as their Senior Rails Developer?OLIO have an incredibly strong culture and was last year listed as a top 5 place to work by Escape The City. They live for their mission, but like to have fun along the way!THE ROLE:You will be helping to build new features and improve OLIOs current systems. OLIO are now starting to see massive growth in their user base, so a key priority will be to increase the capacity and resilience of their systems while delivering on new and exciting projects. Your day-to-day will be helping to maintain and improve OLIO's RoR stack and you will be working on their web portal to support their Food waste heroes!Technologies OLIO work with:● Ruby on Rails ● AWS (Aurora / S3 / cloudfront / ELB / ECR / Cloudwatch / Lambda / Fargate) ● Docker ● Redis ● Travis-CI ● Sidekiq ● Activeadmin ● Google maps / mixpanel / mailgun / trevor.ioMEET THE TECH TEAM:YOU WILL HAVE:<ul><li>A proven track record developing large scale Ruby-On-Rails applications</li><li>Familiarisation with using and improving build and automation tools</li><li>Unit and integration testing new features</li><li>Evaluating new technologies and seeing if/how they could benefit our products and processes</li><li>A ‘product manager’ mind-set, which means you seek to improve specs and designs where possible</li><li>Ability to work with/learn new technologies/languages/frameworks as they arise</li></ul>OLIO are BIG on their values and are looking for people who are:<ul><li>Mission obsessed</li><li>Collaborative and caring</li><li>Resourceful and creative</li><li>Thorough, but able to move quickly and decisively</li><li>A ruthless ability to prioritise</li><li>Champions of Diversity</li><li>Fun to work with ☺</li></ul>OLIO BENEFITS:<ul><li>🚀“Remote first” flexible working around your home and life commitments.</li><li>🚀 Unlimited annual leave (so long as you take your statutory and get your work done!)</li><li>🚀Equity - we want you to be part of our success!</li><li>🚀Monthly in real life and virtual socials, (adapted to engagement preferences), plus Summer and Christmas parties.</li><li>🚀Mental health support via the InsideOut app (including free 1:1 counselling or coaching sessions).</li><li>🚀And much more!</li></ul> OLIO have just closed a $43m series B fundraise, making Tessa &amp; Saasha the most heavily backed female founders in the UK. Check out Tessa Clarke telling Sky News about their Series B

Dendra Systems - Software EngineerJoin Dendra, a scale up team of scientists, ecologists and engineers with the vision to restore the balance of our biodiverse natural world.🌎They are the people solving the 7 Gigaton atmospheric carbon dioxide challenge to control climate change through natural solutions with cutting edge tech.Dendra Systems has raised a total of £13.4M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 1, 2020 from a Series A round.OPPORTUNITY:Are you a passionate software engineer interested in solving problems to restore the natural world at-scale? Then read on below: Every day there will be plenty of opportunity to influence the direction of their product and the cultural and technical direction of the team. You will build software that runs at scale, you will learn and experiment with the latest technologies to innovate, you will help other engineers on the team grow to their full potential. Requirements:This hire will need experience in DevOps and pipeline automation, and be able to provide real customer value (B2B).You will be keen to take full ownership of building greenfield projects with an agile mindset to help them grow. <ul><li>Proven experience building and deploying features that deliver customer value</li><li>Proficiency with Django/Python (preferred)</li><li>Proficiency with git (preferred)</li><li>Proficiency with Linux use and admin</li><li>Experience with a modern frontend framework, e.g., Angular, React or Vue</li><li>Appreciation of code quality and the value of a well tested code base</li><li>An agile mindset - be able to self manage and plan your own day, as well as provide great value to B2B customers</li><li>Based in the UK </li></ul>Key Accountabilities:<ul><li>Collaborate as part of the product process to help shape and refine the scope of ideas</li><li>Develop and deploy new features that provide real customer value</li><li>Continually look for opportunities to improve operational excellence</li><li>Carry out occasional on-call responsibilities, within a team that is empowered to ensure that their platform is robust</li></ul>Frameworks, boundaries, and decision-making authority:<ul><li>Empowered to determine when a feature is done and ready for customers</li><li>Key relationships are with team members, Software Engineering Lead, Product Owners, Product Designers and customers.</li><li>Involves planning within the scrum framework the work to be carried out in the current 2 week time box</li></ul>P.S Dendra offer: <ul><li>Competitive salary </li><li>Annual get together and virtual monthly team lunches and games nights. </li><li>25 days paid annual leave + bank holidays</li><li>Remote working </li><li>Personal development plans</li><li>The chance to take ownership building greenfield projects</li></ul>Useful links to news articles:AI Champions Driving New Industry Solutions For Climate ChangeLet me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestrySwarms of seed-planting 'sky tractors' may one day rewild the planetThis startup just raised $10 million to restore ecosystems by drone

Software Engineer

Job Description*Salary depends on experience.* Who are Dendra Systems?Dendra is a scale up team of scientists, ecologists and engineers with the vision to restore the balance of our biodiverse natural world. They are the people solving the 7 Gigaton atmospheric carbon dioxide challenge to control climate change through natural solutions with cutting edge tech.Dendra Systems has raised a total of £13.4M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 1, 2020 from a Series A round.What do Dendra Systems do?They deploy the latest AI/ML with data fusion to analyse remote sensing satellite data, aerial survey data, and drone survey data to assess land down to individual species while measuring biodiverse carbon sequestration potential of the land. Their knowledge management platform services give customers the ability to understand and actively intervene through drone swarm seeding, invasive species and erosion management among other methods to grow and monitor the ecosystems needed to restore the natural world we all rely on.The role:They are looking for passionate people who are interested in solving problems to restore the natural world at-scale. Every day there will be plenty of opportunity to influence the direction of their product and the cultural and technical direction of the team. You will build software that runs at scale, you will learn and experiment with the latest technologies to innovate, you will help other engineers on the team grow to their full potential.Requirements:This hire will need experience in DevOps and pipeline automation, and be able to provide real customer value (B2B). You will be keen to take full ownership of building greenfield projects with an agile mindset to help them grow. They would love for this hire to be as equally passionate as them about doing good for the world and restoring ecosystems.<ul><li>Bachelors Degree (preferred)</li><li>Proven experience building and deploying features that deliver customer value</li><li>Proficiency with Django/Python (preferred)</li><li>Proficiency with git (preferred)</li><li>Proficiency with Linux use and admin</li><li>Experience with a modern frontend framework, e.g., Angular, React or Vue</li><li>Experience with DevOps practices</li><li>Appreciation of code quality and the value of a well tested code base</li><li>Problem-solving attitude</li><li>Creative thinking skills</li><li>An agile mindset - be able to self manage and plan your own day, as well as provide great value to B2B customers</li></ul>To succeed in this role, you should be an experienced generalist developer with a strong customer focus and excited about driving the delivery of new features. You will understand the importance of putting the delivery of customer value first and have the skills to take an idea, shape it, implement it, deliver it and maintain it to the highest standards.Key Accountabilities:<ul><li>Collaborate as part of the product process to help shape and refine the scope of ideas</li><li>Develop and deploy new features that provide real customer value</li><li>Continually look for opportunities to improve operational excellence</li><li>Carry out occasional on-call responsibilities, within a team that is empowered to ensure that their platform is robust</li></ul>People Excellence (internal/external customer engagement and relationship management):<ul><li>To create an environment which is a great place to work for you and your colleagues through your dedication, enthusiasm, sharing of knowledge, honesty, and desire to support others.</li><li>To display excellent standards in all you do and inspire others to do the same, and that you operate within legislative/regulatory and company policies and procedures.</li><li>To display confidence, self-belief, and openness to new ideas, adapting and embracing challenges and opportunities with a determination to excel.</li><li>Continuously develop own skills by attending all required training courses and maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of products, services, systems and work processes.</li></ul>Frameworks, boundaries, and decision-making authority:<ul><li>Empowered to determine when a feature is done and ready for customers</li><li>Key relationships are with team members, Software Engineering Lead, Product Owners, Product Designers and customers.</li><li>Involves planning within the scrum framework the work to be carried out in the current 2 week time box</li></ul>

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