About SH:24

First off, thank you for considering a role with us!

SH:24 is a pioneering online sexual and reproductive health service, delivered in partnership with the NHS. We make it easy for people to self-manage their sexual and reproductive health online by providing free STI test kits, contraception & treatment, information and advice - 24 hours a day. We’ve won a host of awards and industry recognition for what we do, and we’re happy to say that our reach and services offered are expanding every day.

We are not-for-profit and passionate about delivering discreet, convenient and clinically safe sexual health services. Our vision is to make it easier and faster for people to access sexual and reproductive health services, no matter where they live; we’ve been doing it since 2013. We’re also proud of our community and the people who work for us; those who have helped us shape a company that puts our users at the heart of everything we do by designing services that are easy to use, easy to access and easy to understand by all that need them.

How we work

At SH:24 we like to keep our stack relatively straight-forward: we build our software primarily in Ruby, most of which is within Ruby on Rails. We have a mixture of full stack Ruby on Rails applications and REST APIs serving React components and in the near future we will look to principally build out our front-end in React using the NextJS framework. Additionally, all our applications run on AWS, with a deep stack of EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, Elasticache, all managed using Terraform. Every project is run through CircleCI and we deploy to most of them several times a day.

We’re big followers of Agile and have daily stand-ups, as well as weekly estimating sessions, refinement sessions, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies. We use shortcut.com as a kanban/project management tool. We also love pairing and you can expect to work closely with your team!

What We’re Looking For

You’re an expert software engineer (ideally in Ruby or JavaScript but we’re more than happy to talk talk to people with experience in other languages).
You’re able to lead planning and architecture decisions throughout our service and communicate those decisions to other members of the team.
Experience working on a delivery team shipping a product to users as well as owning entire features from inception through to delivery.
You can look at a system and produce strategies and recommendations about how to refactor for greater sustainability.
You have a great knowledge of databases and how they relate to ORMs. You’ll have solid experience at operating relational databases at scale.
You have a working knowledge of AWS and containerisation basics: Virtual servers, networking, Docker and Kubernetes.
We’re big testers here. We’d hope you are too, as well as following good design principles for creating code. You might not know what every letter of SOLID means (although it wouldn’t hurt!) but you should be interested to learn and have a good understanding of what it means to create great code.
You love to mentor and guide other developers and up-skill those who are more junior than yourself.

Finally, and most importantly, you will love to learn, share knowledge and help others. The team at SH:24 is great because we provide the support to each other for everyone to perform well.

If this sounds like something you’d love to be doing then please send us an application and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. If you don’t feel like you match what we’re looking for exactly then please don’t let that put you off applying.

What You’ll Get From Us

Competitive salary between £85,000 to £110,000
A £250 budget to help you get set up for working from home
25 days annual holiday (in addition to the days between Christmas and New Year)
Excellent pension contributions and life insurance.
Regular company socials

Our Values

Our common values underpin everything we do as employees at SH:24. They show 'how' and 'why' we enjoy working together. We feel these values represent our staff and will help you understand what it means to be a part of SH:24!

Respect: Understanding, respecting, and supporting one another is fundamental to us.

Acceptance: We enjoy each other’s company, we’re open minded and accepting of people’s differences.

Empathy: We are proud to positively impact people’s lives. We love to hear from our users and always want to do better.

Reflection & Initiative: We think critically and thoughtfully and are committed to trying out our ideas.

Conscience & Creativity: We have a strong social conscience. We explore big issues and we’re driven to respond creatively.

Drive & Enthusiasm: A commitment to grow, succeed and celebrate together.

Equality and Diversity

As an employer, SH:24 is committed to inclusivity. We want to increase representation of currently under-represented groups to make SH:24 more diverse. Build an inclusive team, where everyone is able to be themselves at work and feel supported, empowered, valued, respected, fairly treated and able to achieve their full potential.

As an inclusive employer we will not tolerate discrimination.

Interview Process

The SH:24 interview process comprises three main sections:

An interview with a member of the Product & Engineering team. This is a shorter discussion where we you can learn more about what we do and who we are and where we can learn more about you and what you’re looking for.
A take-home code test. This is usually completed in Ruby but let us know if you'd like to complete it in another language.
A pairing interview, consisting of a conversation with two members of the team, along with a pairing exercise relating to the code test submitted. Usually we’ll request an additional feature or suggest a possible refactor for you to try.

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