🐦 About Birdie

Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. Birdie is B-Corp certified and was recently named as a top two Home Health Tech provider globally in the cohort of the top 150 Most Innovative Digital Health startups by CB Insight in 2021.

Launched in 2017, Birdie is a team of socially motivated care, health, product and tech entrepreneurs. We were nominated as one of the top 10 UK startups to watch, the SME with the best culture in the UK, and were on the 2020 Business Cloud Top 50 Start-Ups list. In 2021, we were named No. 9 in Start Up's top 100 innovative and disruptive businesses, as well as being accepted into Tech Nation's 2021 Upscale 7.0 programme. As of June 2022, we closed our Series B funding with £25 million invested by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures.

🚀 Your mission

We need full-stack developers to deliver on our product and build the best technology ever seen in the industry. You will get involved in all parts of the development process with full autonomy and be surrounded by the best experts. We believe in smart, capable, and innovative people who take the initiative and own their code from planning to deployment and maintenance. We own one of the most exciting tech stacks you will see, from various digital products (native apps, web apps) to the latest stack (React Native, JS Node) and Internet-of-Things/health analytics. Join us now, and let's improve millions of lives together!

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute:

Plan and architect new features;
Code for both the backend and frontend;
Design and create both unit and integration tests;
Deploy your code to AWS;
Analyse the performance of your code in production and re-architect for bottlenecks, using automated monitoring tools where appropriate.
Execute Agile development in focused squads, using Agile methodologies and continuous improvement;
Maintain your code as necessary with bug fixes and patches.
Drive improvement across Birdie, collaborating where appropriate to continuously improve the products and services we offer.

Requirements

🤩 We'd love to hear from you if:

Are passionate about writing clean, concise, well-tested code, but you’re also a pragmatic problem solver;
Are you someone who gets things done and is willing to step up, roll up your sleeves, and take responsibility? Able to work efficiently with some supervision and with a high degree of self-motivation and accountability;
You can operate without ego to discuss, learn, grow, and help others do the same.
You follow the best practises for the technologies you work with and understand why.
You're ferociously curious and love learning new things and teaching others about them.
You stay up-to-date with the latest technologies;
You're obsessed with team efficiency, collaboration, and focus.
Have knowledge in React
Have knowledge of Node.js;
Have knowledge of Automated testing;
Have some knowledge of Relational databases;
Have some knowledge of common design patterns;
Have strong analytical and performance optimisation skills;
A deep capacity to get things done;
Are someone who is inspired by and seeks to embody our values.

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive, and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

NB: We would be looking for the successful candidate to join the flock in September 2023.

Benefits

🙌 People are our core strength We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth.

✨ Compensation

Competitive salary of £45k: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience.

🏝 Flexible

With COVID-19, we have decided to be a fully distributed team, with Birdies working across the globe. As long as you're 3 hours from GMT, you can work from anywhere you want. We organise quarterly in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the office, you're most welcome, of course!

🌱 L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have a personal development budget to put towards books (e.g., a free audio subscription), courses, trainings, and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

🌴 Base holiday

33 days of base holidays (25 days plus 8 bank holidays) + Christmas Eve day off

🎄 Christmas leave

Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year's, so you can have some downtime with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

🎂 Birthday leave

You can take your birthday off when it falls on a weekday! (effective from January 1, 2023!)

Private health insurance

Private health insurance with Vitality covers many physical and mental health costs.

☀️ Gym and wellness memberships

Gym membership and numerous other wellbeing perks and discounts via Vitality

🚲 Cycle to Work Schemes

Birdie will buy a bike up-front, and you can salary sacrifice to pay it off over the next 12–36 months.

👼🏽 Parental Leave

a highly favourable parental leave policy for any new parent (we believe we must address the gender gap in pay while fostering equal parental leave policies regardless of gender).

🐣 Fertility Leave Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges that may arise during fertility treatment, and supports all Birdies by offering five additional paid days of leave.

👵🏻 Pension employer contribution

Birdie contributes to your pension.

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips, and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats, and annual trips (like our epic ski trips).

🤗 Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible, yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.

Typical Interview Stages

Phone screen with an Engineering Manager (30 m)

In-sync tech evaluation (1.5 h) (1 h to complete exercise) and engineering Manager discussion (30 m)

Project day (1 h): pair programming kata

Values interview (45 min.)

Co-Founder Interview (45 min.)

Usually, our hiring process lasts, on average, 3 weeks, and offers usually come within 48 hours.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status, or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity and promote an inclusive environment for all birds, and we actively work towards this with our Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Compensation Range: £45K - £45K

Associate Full Stack Software Engineer