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Senior Full Stack Engineer

Torchbox
Bristol, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

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Be one of the first applicants, read the complete overview of the role below, then send your application for consideration.

Senior (Full Stack) Engineer

A bit about Torchbox

We’re the digital marketing specialists for many of the biggest charities in the UK; we build digital products for international NGOs, governments and universities; and we created Wagtail CMS, used by Google, NASA, the NHS and thousands more.

Our diverse team of over 110 people is mostly UK-based but with a significant presence in Manila as well as a network of people around the world.

We are on a mission to set a new standard for a purpose-led business. Torchbox is 100% employee-owned - everyone is a co-owner from day one and we are building an amazing, progressive ownership and learning culture. If you are excited about this mission, it’s a great time to join.

What we’re looking for

Depending on your skills and interests, some of the things you could find yourself doing in this role include :

  • Developing applications that enable our charity and public sector clients worldwide to achieve their strategic and business-critical goals.
  • Providing technical leadership on projects from discovery to backlog management, and taking charge of resolving complex client issues.
  • Working on Wagtail, our open-source CMS, which powers some of the most prestigious websites globally. Collaborating with core contributors to shape the Wagtail vision, add new features, and improve its performance.
  • Taking ownership of projects, proactively identifying and solving issues, addressing technical debt, and ensuring code quality across the board.
  • Collaborating with and mentoring other Engineers in the team, conducting pedagogical code reviews, and contributing to team learning through workshops, talks, and collaborative sessions.
  • Guiding and supporting client engineering teams to maximise the value of Wagtail and align technical execution with their strategic roadmaps.
  • Providing expert consulting to Wagtail Support clients.
  • Working with delivery managers to track budgets, optimise resources, and ensure client satisfaction.

You’ll get to choose your own equipment (macOS / Linux laptop), as well as any software you’d like.

A successful Senior Full Stack Engineer will have the following technical skills :

  • Demonstrable expertise in Python and Django web development.
  • Experience with Relational Database Systems (especially PostgreSQL), Docker / Containerised deployments, RESTful APIs (e.g., DRF), Gitlab / GitHub, CI and Testing.
  • An understanding of the following technologies : Heroku, Azure, AWS, GCP, Elasticsearch, GraphQL.
  • Familiarity or expertise with Wagtail.
  • Expertise in NLP, Large Language Models or other AI technologies.
  • Expertise in data warehousing and data pipelines.
  • Experience with Node.js / Express.
  • Front end styling skills using Tailwind and BEM.
  • Knowledge or expertise in accessibility testing and best practices.

    • The successful candidate will also :

  • Be using machine learning and AI tools to augment efficiency and knowledge.
  • Have experience as a technical lead on projects.
  • Be able to confidently demonstrate aspects of project management (e.g., agile development methodologies and backlog refinement).
  • Be confident in communicating with internal teams and clients to elicit clearly defined requirements and convert these into robust technical architecture.
  • Produce high-quality technical specifications, documentation and be skilled at estimating the time required to build.
  • Confidently contribute to testing strategies.
  • Be experienced in producing high-quality code to budget, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness.
  • Contribute technically towards pitches and proposals.
  • Have experience with nurturing a team by supporting colleagues (through mentoring, coaching, line managing, and reviewing and improving code).
  • Remain up to date with technologies in the software field and share that knowledge.

    • What we offer

  • Become a co-owner of Torchbox, shape our success and share in the rewards.
  • Work with awesome clients doing rewarding, purposeful work.
  • Competitive salary annual review bonuses.
  • Ethical pension scheme, with a 6% contribution from Torchbox.
  • Fully remote, hybrid, office full-time, whatever works for you.
  • Training and conference budget to discover new ideas.
  • Paid time off to volunteer for causes that matter to you.
  • Health schemes and access to mental health support.
  • Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (UK only).
  • Wellness programme and cycle-to-work scheme, alongside other lovely things that are good for you and the environment.
  • Some pretty epic socials (virtual and in-person), weekly free veggie lunches in the office and a bunch of other cool stuff we’d love to tell you about.

    • The money bit

  • As an employee-owned company, our remuneration is made up of two parts, your base salary £47,884 - £75,281 per annum and your tax-free co-owner bonus of £3,600 which is prorated and paid quarterly.

    • The application process

    The closing date for this role is Friday 13th December 2024.

    The application process will consist of 3 stages :

  • An initial meeting with the team to discuss the role, your skills and experience, and for you to learn more about us and the role. There is also a technical element to the interview as well.
  • A takeaway technical assignment.
  • A final stage interview with a Senior Developer and Director of Software Engineering, a run through of your technical assessment, further technical questions and test.

    • If you need help or have questions - give us a shout - recruitment@torchbox.com or leave us a voice message on 44 (0) 1608 811 870

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    Salary : $47,884 - $75,281

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