<h3>🧭 What stage are we at</h3>Pre-seed funded, impact start-up with a prototype, early adopters and hundreds of waiting subscribers. My Ark is transforming people’s relationships with their own data - generating timely insights to guide people to make more savvy decisions each step of the way.We have had phenomenal feedback and support from our beachhead market and have established a number of commercial relationships – we now need to deliver on our promises and deliver the fully feature rich product!<h3>🌟 What we're looking for</h3>As the lead developer you will join an experienced leadership team as an integral part of the business. You will shape the technical landscape under the mentorship of our consultant CTO - a tenured CTO who has successfully exited his cyber security start-upThe ideal candidate will be looking to step-up and take ownership of the delivery of the platform ensuring the quality of deliverables, mentoring and leading junior developers as well as being the trusted technical adviser to the wider business.<h3>🏆&nbsp;Who You Are</h3><ul><li>An owner- as a key member of the founding team you not only own part of the business we are building (via meaningful equity), but you are accountable for the technical deliverables and the technical staff development.&nbsp; Being key to the success of the business excites &amp; motivates you, and you understand how technology outcomes sit along business success.</li></ul><ul><li>A product thinker - you care about the product and the impact it will have for the user. You enjoy the creative process, finding solutions to problems, and relish building products that delight customers</li></ul><ul><li>A brilliant team player - you are not afraid to speak up if something is going in the wrong direction and you want to feel empowered to correct early on.&nbsp; You enjoy experimenting, making rapid decisions and learning from failures</li><li>On for the ride - start-ups are exhilarating…. and taxing.&nbsp; You love the challenge of building an entirely new segment, and being the first to do it.&nbsp; You see opportunity and don’t get overwhelmed by what we are looking to deliver.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>You know your way around TypeScript/JavaScript, React and AWS Lambda, utilising best practice security practices due to the processing of sensitive data. You learn new technologies quickly and are keen to keep learning.</li><li>You have a passion for being part of a mission lead start-up that can truly impact peoples’ opportunities through improving financial and life literacy.</li></ul><h3>🎁&nbsp;Benefits</h3><ul><li>Great options package</li><li>We believe our best work is done by working in whatever way suits you best, but that being together in person makes a team.&nbsp; We are remote first with monthly team meetings in London, plus the opportunity to work more frequently in person if that suits you.&nbsp;</li><li>Top spec laptop</li><li>Professional development budget</li><li>Pension</li><li>Generous holidays – 25 days a year</li></ul><h3>🎯&nbsp;Our Values</h3>Camaraderie - Put collective success before individual achievements.Clarity - Know what you are doing &amp; why, &amp; ensure others do also - empower with 'why' not just 'how.'Credibility - Be personally responsible; act with integrity, take ownership &amp; be accountable.Curiosity - Be intellectually curious, fearless in tackling issues &amp; tenacious in solving the problem.<h3>🖥️ How to Apply</h3>Please get in touch – no recruiters please as we already have established relationships.At this point we can only accept people who are based in the UK with relevant work permits.<h3>💰Salary + equity</h3>📍 Location: Remote first – with monthly in-person team workshops in central London

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We’re offering salary plus equity in our pre-seed funded business for a mid-level developer looking to be one of the first employees, with excellent prospects as the business scales up. With an experienced leadereshp team and successful pre-seed fundraise, our business is transforming how we digitise our life admin and personal data. You will be the third employee helping build the technical landscape under the mentorship of a tenured CTO who has successfully exited his tech start-up. We will actively encourage your professional development and have a personal development budget as one of our perks.This role is ideal for a highly motivated and capable developer who is excited by the opportunity to build something from the ground up, work in a truly collaborative team and have real influence over how the business develops. We are looking for someone who enjoys taking initiative, puts the collective success before individual accolades, and is ambitious to build big and better, and help us achieve our bold vision. The technology stack is a React frontend and an AWS Lambda backend, utilising AWS best practice security due to the processing of sensitive data. Technical requirements for the role:: <ul><li>you have at least two years+ TypeScript/JavaScript experience </li><li>you have experience using React, or have used comparable frameworks and are happy to now work with React  </li><li>you are interested or experienced in using serverless </li></ul>We would be especially interested in hearing from you if: <ul><li>You have worked with AWS before </li><li>You have used TypeScript before </li><li>You have DevOps experience </li></ul>Main responsibilities: We have a customer validated wireframe and have two team members who have started building the prototype.  You will join John and Szabina in building, iterating, testing, fixing and monitoring the product. As such an early team member you will be integral to building the business, so you will be passionate about getting a great customer outcome rather than being task focused.  You will naturally want to speak up to make the product the best it can be and act as a trusted technical contributor. People at My Ark Having worked in businesses that say they care about people but dont really, we mean it when we say we want to work with you as much as your skills!  Your success is our success and we believe that being motivated by how you work is as important as what you are working on. You: <ul><li>Love a good problem to get your teeth into with strong problem-solving ability </li><li>Care about the customer, especially due to the nature of our business, and are driven to get great customer outcomes </li><li>Are comfortable both working independently and collaboratively </li><li>Can present complex problems in an intelligible way </li><li>Know what good looks like - knowledge of development best practice coupled with pragmatism needed in a rapidly iterating start-up </li></ul><ul><li>Have great prioritization and understanding of how your work fits in with what the company deliverables are </li></ul>Salary is negotiable and based on experience and attitude. Due to the early stage of the business, compensation is a combination of salary and equity as we want you to be able to see the benefits from the business you are helping to build.  The role is mainly remote. We like people (and each other) and sometimes it's great to get in a room together and brainstorm, so we ask that you will be available for ad hoc occasional in person meetings/workshops etc. in the London area.

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