Senior Software Engineer (Frontend or Fullstack)

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Our Mission

To democratise investing for the everyday investor by providing complex financial data in a simplified format at an affordable price. Previously, this level of data was out of reach from both the price perspective and investing literacy ability. It is our mission to empower investors to make informed decisions, just like Warren Buffet. 

Why Join?

• Global, B2C SaaS startup;

• We have +5 million users, across 170 countries;

• Small team and flexible environment making it easy to rapidly iterate;

• Work with a product customers love: 4.5* Trustpilot Reviews.

• Join a diverse team of people from Atlassian, The Iconic, Safety Culture, Deputy, eBay, Ansarada, Airtasker & more!

Engineering problems we are currently solving:

• We do really care about our users. We structure our teams around problems to solve for them. You will be joining a team that knows about the user pain and cares to provide a frictionless experience.

• As we grow our subscribers we want keep focusing on performance, reliability and security. Just to give you an example, we worked on CWV performance in the last years and we reached 99% of good URLs on 2022. We can show you some numbers in Sentry or Datadog… we have the scars.

• Improve the mobile experience for our users. All user experiences are mobile ready.

• Our codebase grew a bit in the last few years. We have quite a modern stack built in React but we want to make it even better. So we are working on re-defining what it will look like. Some parts of the platform has been moved to Next.js, so we are keen to try things out if it makes sense for our uses, we will do it.

• Thinking through marketing engineering (SEO, building for partner channels, email marketing engine etc). We have a huge audience of people, so your contribution will have a positive impact in a lot of individual investors out there.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Be joining a high performing passionate team where you can have a huge impact. 

• Be working in a cross-functional team, across multiple platforms, to ensure that we are giving the best experience possible for our customers.

• Be ok to work with a mono repo set up.

• Work with large scale, highly available and resilient modern financial systems.

• Engage in technical discussion of solutions and product ideas through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions and continuous improvement.

• Work with automated deployment enabling code release multiple times a day.

• Work with modern tools and languages that excite you and solve user problems.

• Build efficient and reusable front-end abstractions and systems.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks.

About you:

• As a Senior Software Engineer you have several years experience in a similar role at other SaaS startups or software companies.

• You are a true Software Engineer who chooses the right tool for the problem to solve. We are happy to hear your stories about dealing with different programming languages.

• You are confident with Javascript/React/Typescript/HTML/CSS and testing frameworks to ensure we deliver quality at speed.

• You have experience with performance, like working with web vitals (the team work a lot with we vitals)

• You understand what it takes to build reliable, scalable and resilient systems using modern best practices. Show us the scars and what you learnt on the path.

• Exposure to Classic & Modern JS frameworks as well as the browser ecosystem.

• Someone that expects high quality and knows how to work in a high performing team.

• Growth mindset. What works today may not work tomorrow.

Perks

At Simply Wall St, we know that everyone is unique. Everyone has their own personal style of work, different productive hours, values flexibility, and enjoys the autonomy of their schedule to manage their workdays according to their own respective needs and wants. We want you to work where and when you’re most effective. Maybe you’re an early bird, or a night owl. Maybe you prefer the office, or working from a van.

To support you both professionally and personally, we believe flexibility is fundamental to our ways of working.

• Work from Anywhere: Opportunity to work overseas for 3 months;

• Bueller (personal) days: 4 extra paid days off per year;

• Simply Stop Afternoons: We stop working every Friday at 2.30pm;

• Competitive Salaries & ESOP: We are a startup but we don’t underpay. Everyone owns our success;

• Parental Leave & Compassionate Leave: Extra support offered, with part-time return to work option;

• Learning & Development Fund: Development fund to invest in your growth;

• Share Club: We provide subscription to SWS, cash for you to invest & regular sessions to discuss stocks and investment ideas;

• Team Events & Quarterly Hackathons: An opportunity for everyone to come together and push what is possible;