Senior Full Stack Engineer
About this role
Our team of passionate experts collaborate with leading contemporary artists from across the globe to create bespoke limited-edition artworks to browse and collect. We began as a cult blog of contemporary artists and since 2015 we've grown our community to over 3.3 million strong across more than 100 countries. We're proud to collaborate with leading contemporary artists to create limited edition works - from sculpture editions and works on paper to NFTs and hand-finished silkscreen prints.OUR CULTUREWe’re a small team with really big ambitions, both for what we want to achieve and also the environment we’re building. We want to create a company that remains thoughtful as we scale and tries to be genuinely progressive in how we operate. We want people to really own what they do and be given the autonomy and freedom to make mistakes, learn, and create something meaningful.We all work incredibly hard because we really care about what Avant Arte is here to do – we’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, hungry to learn, and want to put their pride in our collective achievements.We know that creating an inclusive environment that promotes and values diversity is critical if we want to build something with impact and meaning. We believe that having diversity in age, background, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective will make us an infinitely better company. We were shortlisted for Women in Tech’s Best Employer - Small Company and Best Benefits, and Otta’s top 100 startups to work at. WHAT WE NEEDWe are looking to add a skilled Full Stack Developer to our small but rapidly growing cross-functional product team.You will be highly product minded and pro-active in working with non technical team members to lead on scoping, solution design and delivery of projects. The ability to do this with autonomy whilst asking the right questions at the right time is important as we are operating within small teams but building big capabilities.You will be driven by excellence with a proven track record in delivering well-crafted software. You will be someone who can lead by example and help guide technical direction, best practices and ways of working to less senior or non technical team members.You're a highly motivated self-starter with strong organisational, communication and planning skills. You will go the extra mile and think like a user to ensure that a feature or project drives real and best in class value to customers.The core of your role will involve:Design and implementation of scalable and performant applications, involving complex backend architecture as well as sound and readable front end components.Own code across our stack.Work with less technical members of the team to translate complex business requirements into high and low level technical requirements and delivery strategy.Own and lead on the scoping, design and implementation of complex projects, Flagging and resolving roadblocks or unforeseen problems by speaking with the right stakeholders.Take part in reviewing and optimising the team's processes to ensure we're working at our best.The skills and experience we’re looking for are:You have extensive experience leading on the design and implementation of Next.js applications with complex statement management.You will have strong understanding and experience designing and building secure and scalable APIs, ideally GraphQL but not essential, and backend services and their communication protocols/schemas.You will have a deep understanding and experience having worked on backend services. Our backend services are written in Go and GRPC, experience in that stack is desirable but not essential.You have experience designing applications for and deploying onto a major cloud computing platform.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Web Developer and Full Stack Developer too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a senior Software Engineering role in London, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
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