Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Full-time (hybrid)

£85,000-£105,000 GBP

About us

CV Partner is a major SaaS product in winning public tenders, bids, and proposals. Currently being used by market leaders in consulting, engineering, IT and legal firms in over 35 countries, our software helps create and store CV, resume, and case study data. This makes it easy to keep track of employee data and reduces the time it takes to compile a winning bid in half.

Having experienced great success in Europe since CV Partner was founded in 2012, and trusted by industry leaders like PwC, DLA Piper, and Capgemini, we have bold plans to expand in North America. In 2023, we received our first investment from Idékapital, which has enabled us to accelerate our overseas expansion and release new product features, including generative AI.

Our globally distributed team of around 40 talented and friendly individuals is headquartered in Oslo, with offices in London, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Toronto.

We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups to apply for this vacancy. Please note that we can only consider applications from individuals based in the UK who are legally eligible to work.

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Core Team

Joining the Core team, which is responsible for the main customer-facing application that CV Partner provides, you will work in a small cross-functional team with other senior engineers, concentrating on delivering customer value through optimising existing code and building new features.

Although the main codebase is a Ruby on Rails application we're actively moving away from this and have started to build some smaller services which communicate through an event-driven architecture. We're also starting to use AI a lot more and have released some LLM based features which have greatly enhanced our solution.

The frontend is a React and TypeScript application which we are continuing to modernise and have recently begun on implementing a design-system so frontend components can be shared across teams.

We use a few different languages across our all teams and encourage engineers to work across the entire system - so you should be happy to jump into an unfamiliar codebase and be able to pick it up quickly. You'll also get the opportunity to work on some of the services which underpin our event-driven architecture, many of which are built in Rust.

Responsibilities

Reporting into the CTO, and working as part of a small cross functional team that belongs to the wider development team, you will enjoy autonomy, responsibility and a friendly environment.

• Extend and optimise our core application, used daily by the world's largest professional services firms.
• Work across the whole stack, whether it's TypeScript or CSS in the frontend, Ruby or Rust backend code or configuring deployments on kubernetes.
• Create production-ready code by making sure metrics, alerts and traces are configured in our monitoring tools.
• Help migrate from our old Rails monolith to smaller more focussed services and contribute to our event-driven architecture.
• Be able to choose the right tool for the job. Whether it's the programming language, database or frontend-framework.
• Work closely with other teams to solve cross-cutting problems.

About you

Ideally, you will have worked for a high-growth company but we are more concerned with your ability to adapt to a changing environment. CV Partner is in an exciting growth phase so it’s important to be aware that something that works for us today may not work for us tomorrow.

In addition to having a strong learning agility and a desire to work in a collaborative work environment, the successful candidate should meet most of the requirements listed below (and be able to demonstrate them during the interview process).

Minimum essential requirements

• Product-focussed mindset. A passion to understand what our customers need and build solutions to their problems.
  
• Knowledge in multiple languages or frameworks (most beneficial: Rust, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript).
  
• Knowledge of different database technologies (most beneficial: Postgres, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Redis).
  
• Experience in designing software in a cloud environment (we're using Kubernetes on AWS).
  
• Someone with good full-stack knowledge: front-end; web development; databases (SQL or otherwise), DevOps; system architecture.
  
• Linux, git, Github etc
  

It would be great if you also have

• Expertise in CSS and/or design systems.
• An interest in utilising AI to solve real problems.
• Postgres expertise.
• Knowledge of or an interest in Rust.

Why you will love it here

We promote flexible working arrangements, and we also recognise the positive impact of meeting up with colleagues in person.We ask that applicants be prepared to travel to the Farringdon office at least 1-2 day per week (depending on location and in accordance with our hybrid work policy). We also travel internationally twice per year for company gatherings, so candidates should be prepared to travel overseas for a few days each year (fully paid) for collaboration, fun times, and, of course, great food.

A leave allowance of 28 days + public holidays

Private medical insurance with AXA

8% employer pension contribution

Group Life Scheme

Travel to different CV Partner offices & travel insurance

Macbook and iPhone contract

The interview process

HR interview (30 minutes)

Hiring Manager interview (45-60 mins)

Practical, non code task (2 hours)

Cultural interview (45-60 mins)