Senior Full Stack Engineer - React / Python (remote from Spain)

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 240 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.

This is an exciting time to join our scaling business; we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start-up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing monetisation squad. You’ll become a core part of our small, highly agile team which is responsible for transforming our product. You will work with us to figure out user problems with regards to monetisation and how we scale our technical systems to achieve this.

You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of working fast to develop prototypes and iterating to find the optimal result. You’ll work across our tech stack to solve a variety of challenges from our back-end processes, to our APIs, to our front-end product.

We are in the middle of transforming and modernising our technology stack so you will have the opportunity and be encouraged to contribute to new technology decisions, helping to shape our technology strategy, adapting our architecture as we grow.

Responsibilities

1. Translation of UX / UI designs into production quality product experiences, using our proposed Front End stack
2. Build elegant and performant APIs and Front End solutions
3. Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
4. Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase
5. Mentor other engineers to support their growth
6. Design and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a second
7. Collaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A / B and MVP testing and development specifications

Required skills and experience

1. Experience building scalable, high-performing web applications
2. Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting APIs
3. Strong organisational skills
4. Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment

Desired skills and experience

1. Proficiency in PHP
2. Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate / ECS / EKS
3. Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar such as RabbitMQ), SNS (or Kafka), and how they are used
4. Experience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar
5. Strong understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and adherence to SOLID principles and proficiency in implementing Clean Architecture practices
6. Experience with event-driven architecture, including event sourcing and related patterns

Some of our benefits

1. Fully remote working
2. Personal annual L&D Budgets with 600€ to spend on your development
3. Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve

Interview Process

1. Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
2. 2nd Stage - Technical Task (60 mins)
3. 3rd Stage - Values interview (30 mins)

Diversity Statement

At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.