Junior Software Engineer in London

Housekeep is the UK’s biggest technology platform connecting customers and cleaners in the £5 billion house cleaning market. We help customers find trusted, local cleaners and assist those cleaners by finding them dense local customer routes, maximising their earnings and saving travel costs. Housekeep has built a strong foundation in the first eight years. We are the UK market leader – 3x bigger than the nearest competitor – and have delivered 2 million+ cleans with a 4.8* average rating. We have reached substantial turnover, growing at 50% each year, and we are already profitable with substantial cash to invest. Our core market is house cleaning in London, and there is a clear opportunity to grow our 1-2% market share by 5-10x in the coming years, building a business with a £100M+ valuation.

Disrupting the home cleaning market throws up a lot of hard problems: real-time scheduling, job-allocation, routing and messaging to coordinate thousands of daily home visits. And all this complexity has to be presented to our cleaners, customers and operations staff with beautiful, intuitive user interfaces.

We are looking for a bright, driven, AI-native Junior Software Engineer who is excited about solving complex problems and building scalable platforms.

The role:

• Have the opportunity to learn and work across a broad range of technologies
• Use AI to supercharge your productivity, improve user experiences and tackle complex business problems
• Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos
• Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability

The candidate:

• You have completed a degree or bootcamp in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Artificial Intelligence
• You are AI-native, proficient at prompt engineering and comfortable using agentic coding tools to boost your productivity and problem solving
• You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both
• You’re excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
• You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements
• You will be proud to show how you’ve impacted other parts of a business and delivered results

The tech:

• Python on the server side, using Django as a web framework, and Django Rest Framework for our API
• Angular and TypeScript on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow
• Next.js and React for parts of our marketing website
• Ionic for hybrid and progressive mobile apps
• PostgreSQL for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities
• Metabase for analysis and self-serve data exploration
• Redis for caching and task queues
• GitHub, Codeship and Heroku for seamless code review, integration and deployment
• Claude Code for agentic coding
• AWS S3, CloudFront and Lambda for storage and content delivery
• Cypress for end-to-end testing
• Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more

We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints. We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable. We strongly believe in ownership at Housekeep, and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users. We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency. We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.

Benefits include:

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days
• Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme
• Access to Employee Pricing Programs
• Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel
• Choice of hardware, OS and IDE