Principal Fullstack JavaScript Engineer

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Connecting people to their family stories is special. We're proud to deliver these magic moments. Through technology, data and insights, we bring people closer to their past, to benefit their future.

We're a fast-growing team of smart people, on a mission to help millions. Solve meaningful, complex problems and be a part of something magical. Enjoy the agility of a scale-up with the security of real financial backing, in a place where every story matters.

Reasons to join our engineering team:

We're driven by the desire to create a fantastic customer experience

We're passionate about processing big data and to make it easy for our consumers to build their family journey

We collaborate across teams, working in an Agile environment where we focus on individual development and a growth mindset

We promote flexible working, including working from home, and we support each individual's personal wellbeing

We work in small teams, so that employees are develop in a supportive environment and test out their ideas, whilst having a direct impact on the business

We promote professional development and wellbeing. This means you will have a mentor, a buddy, learn from colleagues, and be able to discuss new information and across teams

At Findmypast, you will receive:

UK bank holidays, a generous allowance of 26 days holiday, with the opportunity to purchase 4 more

Private medical insurance, health and dental cash plans

Flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home

Enhanced and shared maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Life assurance scheme

Child tax credits

Allocated daily learning time plus generous learning budget

About the Role:

The role of the Principal is front and centre to delivering a timely, high-quality product for our customers. You'll be providing technical leadership and expertise to the teams you are working with.

Here's what we look for in our Principal engineers:

Technical leadership; confidently taking us through all phases of challenging and complex projects

Mentoring and supporting others to deliver efficient, high-quality implementation at a project level and on your own tasks

Contributing to the strategic technical direction of our Engineering department

Designing, developing and deploying user experiences with a focus on usability, high availability, low latency and scalability

Building out and improving our new Node.js backend systems, to meet the needs of a modern and growing business

Operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team in a DevOps culture

Continuously improving our product by innovating on the service through experimentation and testing.

Requirements 

The Job entails:

Lead on complex projects from inception to delivery, ideally with some experience gained in a rapidly growing technology company

Bring strong communication skills and a love of working in a team

Bring experience mentoring others and consistently pushing for continuous improvement

Manage technical roadmaps with a long-term view of architecture within and across other engineering teams

Demonstrate strong coding skills with JavaScript

Show a desire to champion expressive code and simplify solutions

If you feel that this matches your experience, then we look forward to hearing from you!

What to expect after applying:

You will have an initial call with a member of our People Team

This will be followed by a coding test and pairing with engineers from the team

Our final step is an interview with an Engineering Lead and Engineers from the team

If you have additional requirements in the interview process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We promote an inclusive environment, and we are an equal opportunity employer. At Findmypast, we understand the importance of family and we have a clear vision of recruiting and training employees, regardless of race, gender identity, religion, and sexual orientation. 

Benefits

We're passionate about making FMP a great place to work and setting people up to succeed. Benefits include:

26 days holidays + UK bank holidays. We also offer the option to purchase up to 4 additional days.

Excellent pension contribution from day one of up to 15.5% of your basic salary (9.5% matched company contribution with a 6% contribution from the employee's side).

Flexible working, as we want all our employees to have a brilliant work-life balance.

Enhanced and shared maternity/paternity/adoption leave.

Learning & Development budget, access to LinkedIn Learning and training opportunities.

Various social remote activities to keep connected as a company.

Employee Assistance Programme, wellbeing app access and Mental Health First Aiders.

Life assurance.

Private medical insurance, health and dental cash plan options.

Gym membership and staff discounts.

Cycle to work scheme.

Season travel tickets.

BorrowMyDoggy subscription

Subscriptions to Findmypast and British Newspaper Archive.

If you are a recruitment agency, please be aware that we're not looking for additional assistance with recruitment. Please do not send us CVs. We will not be responsible for fees related to unsolicited CVs.