Senior Full-Stack Developer

At Bridebook, we're digitising the wedding industry! Join us in transforming the wedding planning experience for engaged couples around the world.

Please note we can only offer contracts to those based in Europe as a full time contractor. This role requires a strong level of English Fluency, both written and oral due to the format of internal company communications.

Who is Bridebook anyway? 💙

Bridebook is a revolutionary wedding planning platform that seeks to make wedding planning an enjoyable, intuitive, and rewarding experience for couples, guests, and industry partners. Launched in the UK, Bridebook has over 1,000,000 planning couples and has been featured in major outlets such as the New York Times, the BBC, and the App Store. After six years and many iterations later, we have 2 in 3 engaged UK couples and 1 in 3 engaged German couples using Bridebook, and have recently expanded globally. While we serve a very emotional and creative industry, we are obsessed with using tech and data to revolutionise the industry. We have a team of motivated and experienced professionals with ambitious plans to make Bridebook an iconic global brand, making this an exciting time to join our vibrant and innovative company.

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

As a Full-Stack Engineer you will drive the development of our scalable, cloud-based, next-generation wedding platform. You will work across our industry-leading product, developing tools and applications across both sides of the marketplace and our mobile app. You will be part of a highly experienced and motivated cross-functional teams (engineering, product & design) who care about driving value for our users and delivering beautiful user experiences.

The web application is built in React/Typescript/Node/NextJS/Firestore and we practice agile software development.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, great communication and organisational skills, motivation to achieve results in an agile environment, eagerness to learn and, of course, a passion for innovation. We'd love to have you join us and build the systems, services and apps that delight our end users and enable our teams to move faster.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Being a technical leader within your team and within Bridebook.
• Working with the team and stakeholders to deliver great software with the right scope.
• Working closely with product managers and developers to help deliver a product that satisfies business and technical constraints.
• Maintaining a secure, sustainable and scalable backend architecture.
• Working towards carrying out effective systems monitoring and logging, using the results to help shape our product decisions.
• Understand the platforms and technologies in use and guide future direction.
• Lead by example in areas of automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests to support the continuous integration pipelines.
• Coach and develop members of the team to set, apply & maintain excellent standards of development.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.
• Refining our collective ways of working in meaningful ways.

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

• Both written and verbal English fluency
• Has 6yrs + experience working with JavaScript, Typescript, React/Redux
• Strong understanding of and experience with Typescript
• Strong relevant experience in developing highly performant, interactive web-based applications using modern frameworks, libraries and tools.
• Strong experience with document stores non-relational database (Google Cloud Firestore is a major plus)
• Experience working with Capacitor-based web-apps
• A deep understanding of managing and implementing cloud services like AWS and GCP
• Experience with creating and managing RESTful APIs
• Experience in test automation using modern source control and continuous integration
• Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic and a strong desire to write efficient, scalable and clean code.
• Comprehensive experience of delivering in an Agile manner, particularly Scrum.

What if you’re a partial fit?🌱

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the wedding industry and welcome candidates with different backgrounds and experiences! We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t exactly match this job description.

Location 🌍

Remote, Europe only.

Our Values 🙌

One Team: Together we are better.

Keep Accelerating: We work smart.

Create Joy: We celebrate going above and beyond.

Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Research shows that women, neurodiverse individuals, and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Bridebook we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

So what’s next? 🕓

You’ll hear from our team within 2 weeks regarding your application. We believe in efficient and meaningful conversations, so you’ll be happy to hear there isn’t a whopping 7 stage process!

Please apply using a recent CV written in English only.

That's all for now - see you on the dancefloor! 🕺💃