Golang Software Engineer

Birdie's home healthcare platform enabled a remarkable 30 million care visits in 2023. Through its innovative technology, Birdie is modernising home healthcare, with support from key investors; Index Ventures, OMERS Ventures and Sofina. As a certified B-corp, Birdie prioritises social responsibility. Its dedicated team combines expertise in healthcare, product design, and technology to bring about meaningful changes in the industry.

Birdie joining TechNation's FutureFifty 2024 cohort, is a testament to our unwavering commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. Birdie's all-in-one solution serves as an operating system for homecare businesses, empowering care providers with the tools they need to deliver exceptional care efficiently, and also facilitating better connection with the village of professionals and family also involved in each care recipient's life.

Our vision goes beyond mere efficiency. We aim to unlock the potential of preventative, personalised, and proactive home healthcare, leveraging the abundance of relevant data to shift from a broadly reactive approach to being more predictive and intelligent. Our goal is simple yet profound: to enable older adults to lead longer, healthier lives in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes.

Join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare, building scalable, reliable systems that make a real difference.

As a Golang engineer you'll:

• Contribute to the engineering of new features, specialising in Go;

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to define and refine feature requirements;

• Design and create automated tests at all levels of the testing pyramid;

• Optimise code for performance and scalability, ensuring our systems can handle the ever-growing volume of data;

• Execute in an agile engineering environment, in focused cross functional teams, using agile methodologies and culture of continuous improvement;

• Maintain code quality and drive improvements across Birdie, collaborating to continuously improve our products and services;

• Contribute to architectural decisions and system design;

• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.

We're looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about writing clean, concise, well-tested code and is a pragmatic problem-solver;

• Has deep expertise in either Go;

• Gets things done and is willing to step up, take ownership, and roll up their sleeves;

• Has a keen product mindset, understanding user needs and driving innovation to enhance the overall user experience;

• Works efficiently in cross-functional teams with high self-motivation and accountability;

• Follows best practices and understands the rationale behind them;

• Is intensely curious, loves learning, and shares knowledge with others;

• Is passionate about team efficiency, collaboration and focus;

• Approaches discussions with humility, fostering a learning and supportive environment;

• Understands the trade-offs between different technical solutions and makes informed decisions;

• Is comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Have proficiency in Go;

• Have knowledge of Relational databases;

• Have knowledge of automated testing;

• Have knowledge of common design patterns;

• Nice to have: proficiency with NodeJS and Typescript; React and related tech (Tanstack Query, Redux…) ;

• Nice to have: React Native and related tech (Redux-saga, offline-first...).
  

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive:

✨ Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £60k - £75k. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Location

This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.

Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.

🌱 L&D budget

Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

🏡 Work From Home budget

Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you’ll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.

🌴 Paid time off

We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra “Birthday” day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.

🫶🏻 Birdie giving days

Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you’re passionate about) each year.

🌍 Sabbaticals

We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts

Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

🐣 Fertility Leave

Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

👵🏻 Employer pension contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies)

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

It's essential to us that you’re able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.