Lead technical design and architecture of a SaaS platform, own and develop the tech stack, build responsive front-end features, implement microservices and APIs, resolve performance issues, champion best practices, mentor junior developers, and shape development processes as the team scales.
Company Description
The Restory is the world’s first repair and restoration platform dedicated to luxury fashion. We use our elite marketplace, our unique knowledge and our proprietary technology to bring easy and trusted aftercare services to consumers, brands and retailers worldwide.
We are the official global aftercare partner for Farfetch, Manolo Blahnik and Nicholas Kirkwood. We have embedded partnerships with Selfridges, Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Browns Fashion.
Over the course of 50K repairs, we have cracked the complexity of aftercare and are now making our technology and infrastructure available as a set of powerful enterprise solutions so that the world’s largest fashion brands can easily adopt circular fashion for themselves.
We are looking for someone based in the UK and unfortunately cannot sponsor visa at this point of time.
Job DescriptionWhat you’ll be doing?
You’ll be a valued voice on our small team (growing weekly!) and have the chance to have a huge impact on the future direction of the technical platform.
On a day to day basis you will be:
- Pivotal in the technical design & architecture of the SAAS platform
- Own the development of our Tech stack
- Developing features & functionality as we move beyond MVP
- Championing best practices across the codebase
- Identifying & resolving performance issues and bugs
- Helping shape development processes as we scale the team
- Helping build an open, collaborative team culture
- Coaching and supporting new (sometimes junior) developers
- Build the front end of our applications through appealing visual and mobile responsive design
Why should I apply?
- Generous options package
- 21 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Partially remote working and work in our London office
- Flexible working hours (core hours/within London time +/-3)
- Conference/training budget - we want to support your growth
- High spec setup - laptop, monitor + other home office perks TBC
- Once in a lifetime experience in a startup as it gears up for high growth
- Degree(required) ideally in com
- 5-8 years of professional experience on NodeJs, ReactJs
- Require AWS experience
- API micro-service and message oriented architecture experience
- Knowledge of back-end languages or frameworks such as PHP, Laravel
- Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with databases - MySQL, MongoDB
What we’re looking for
- You’ve done lots if not all of these things before
- You care about the code you write
- You’re happy owning tickets all the way through to production
- You’re focused on delivering value to users
- You know the right way to do things, while still being pragmatic
- You enjoy architecting systems - it’s down to us to lay the foundation we’ll build on for years to come
- You’re happy operating in the problem space, not just knocking down tickets
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