Software Engineer (React) (Remote)

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. We are seeking candidates who share our sense of urgency and passion for working on something that contributes to the solution. Our Product Our platform allows clients to analyse the environmental impact of their food. Clients tell us what ingredients they use, where they source the ingredients from, their production steps, transportation and waste streams, etc. We use that information to calculate the environmental impacts 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) and a React (Typescript) frontend. We use AWS for our infrastructure and Figma for our user interface designs. 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. The Role 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 software engineers and our product manager and product designer. As part of this team you will work in fortnightly sprints and release to production several times a sprint. 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. You will also have the opportunity to influence and define best practice process, design and patterns more broadly within our product team and product. 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 developing libraries of custom components aligned with UI design artefacts.
• 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 - £80,000
• 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).