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Senior Full Stack Engineer
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KatKin
Senior Full Stack Engineer
London
Hybrid
Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Millions of cat parents engage with KatKin every month, and as a Full-Stack Engineer at KatKin, you’ll work alongside our Engineering team in bringing our hardcore cat parent’s digital journey to life.
You will work closely with our Director of Engineering, Product and Design, and the rest of the Engineering team to help meet the day-to-day and long-term ambitions of KatKin and its stakeholders. You will own and create the components and technology necessary to provide a best-in-class experience for cat parents whenever they visit our website or use our subscription service.
We are a close-knit, focused team who are committed to consistently delivering high quality technology, on time, as part of a tech-driven mindset that lets us focus on building the right solutions for scaling our business into the future.
Our current tech stack makes heavy use of TypeScript, particularly NextJS on the frontend, NestJS microservices on the backend with Prisma, and various other technologies and tools like Postgresql and RabbitMQ. We also have a more mature backend written in Kotlin, as well as a number of legacy web pages written in various technologies.
KEY OWNERSHIP AREAS
Delivering functionality across the entire stack, in line with our software requirements
Evaluating and implementing new technologies to scale and streamline our software pipelines
Working closely with our product team & stakeholders to build scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions for serving our customers
Shared responsibility for the maintenance and quality of codebases and infrastructure
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Good familiarity with RESTful web services.
Excellent understanding of TypeScript, React and Node.
Mission-driven, high energy and a natural sense of curiosity and urgency for results.
A genuine passion for technology and KatKin’s mission.
Experience working in a fast paced environment, taking ownership of features end to end, and balancing between velocity and technical quality.
NICE TO HAVES
Experience within eCommerce and/or payments
Good understanding of OOP and/or functional paradigms.
Good understanding of NextJS or other similar server-focused frontend metaframework. Bonus points for having used React’s server components API.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools, particularly Github Actions
Experience using or deploying into AWS and/or Kubernetes, using IaC tools such as Terraform or CDK
Experience working with monorepos and tooling such as NX/Lerna/Bazel.
Experience with Cypress/Playwright/any test automation tools and processes
Familiarity or interest with observability and metrics tooling.
You have a cat, or two or three!
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KatKin
Senior Full Stack Engineer
London
This role has expired