Software Engineer (React) London

Foodsteps is hiring an experienced software engineer to focus on our front end!

About Foodsteps

We are a food sustainability start up with a mission to help food businesses measure, reduce and communicate their environmental impact. Food systems account for around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss, so immediate positive change in this area is crucial if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences from the ecological crisis.

Our Product

Our platform allows clients to analyse the environmental impact of their food. Clients give us data about the products they buy, manufacture and sell, including key attributes such as where they source the ingredients from, their production steps, transportation and waste streams, etc. We use that information to calculate the environmental impacts of their foods throughout the entire life cycle, helping our customers make their food offering more sustainable.

Our product is built around PostgreSQL, a Django backend (using typed Python), Rust and a React (Typescript) frontend. We use AWS for our infrastructure and Figma for our user interface designs.

The Role

In this role you will be working directly on product initiatives that make a real difference to our customers' food sustainability journey and directly contribute to the Foodstep's mission.

You will define and mentor other engineers in front end development best practices and patterns and collaborate with our product designer to define and optimise our front end design and development processes with a particular focus on creating reusable components from Figma designs. You will influence and define best practice process, design and patterns more broadly across our product team and product.

As an experienced software engineer you will be responsible for the technical design, implementation, testing, release and support of our application with a particular focus on our React front end. You will be working closely with our small team of in house software engineers, product manager and product designer, as well as a small team of remote contractors. As part of this team you will work in fortnightly sprints and release to production several times a sprint.

Working very closely with teams across the company, you will enjoy working as part of a broader cross functional team.

Experience and Skills

• You have significant experience building complex user interfaces using React and Typescript
• You have experience building custom data visualisations, making use of libraries such as D3 or chartjs, and are proficient with CSS.
• You are well versed in React best practices and design patterns such as component composition, hooks and providers.
• You have experience setting up, developing and maintaining libraries of custom components that are closely aligned with UI design artefacts created in Figma.
• You are proficient in automated front end testing.
• You have some experience building software applications in Python, developing APIs, using GraphQL and REST, and back end business logic when required.
• You will be motivated by working in a small team in a dynamic environment where every initiative makes a difference to achieving our goals, and requirements evolve frequently.
• You will have experience picking up new technologies quickly.

Salary, Location and Benefits

• £60,000 - £70,000
• Full range of benefits, including 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, and climate perks travel days.
• UK-based, able to visit our London office at least once a month

Our Team and Workplace

We are a UK-based company with an office space in London. Most of us go into the office two or three days a week, while some are fully remote. We are currently a team of about 30 people (check out the "About Us" section of our website).