Experienced software developer in London

Lavanda is an award-winning UK proptech scale-up on a mission to revolutionise the global real estate industry through compliant, sustainable and community-positive short-term rental solutions. Our clients include names like JLL, Greystar, Europa Capital, Aberdeen Standard Investments, and Savills among many others.

Lavanda is product-first. More than 50% of the company works in product, design and engineering, and we aim to excel at everything we build. We prize creativity, excellence in engineering, a powerful customer focus and attention to problem-solving through great design. It is what sets us apart in our industry and is why we have seen extraordinary growth year-on-year. Having raised £6m+ to date, we’re backed by leading venture capital investors and are now scaling the business beyond the UK into Europe and beyond. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We value diversity, equality and inclusiveness. We invite you to join our stellar team of entrepreneurs and help us realise our exciting vision.

The Role

We're looking for multiple software developers to join our Product team. Furthermore, we are currently a team of 15 engineers, and we're looking to become 20 in early 2022. We employ a Product first UX design led approach and care deeply about well-crafted and tested software. Our ecosystem is composed by a number of API only apps built mostly in Ruby. We use the latest versions of Angular on a number of apps we've been developing since 2017 and we've been using React since 2019 on a more recent project which has been growing quickly. We use the Feature Branch Workflow approach and in addition to that we use review apps and branch deploys during acceptance of new features. We are fans of automated testing and look to apply a TDD wherever possible – we particularly like RSpec, jasmine and cypress.io. Not only that, but we use capybara at a small scale currently, and we might start using pact.io and cucumber in the near future.

Requirements

• You will have previous significant experience as a developer in a professional setting (on average, if you don't have a few years of experience as a developer building software in a TDD and continuous integration sort of setting, this position is probably not suitable for you just yet) and are a strong supporter of highly collaborative Product minded development environments.
• We expect you to be relatively autonomous in writing well-designed and tested code (strong preference for TDD).
• You’ll communicate using English language fluidly.
• You’ll have deep familiarity with at least one of our core languages (Javascript, Typescript, Ruby) – bonus points for one or more of the following frameworks/libraries: Sinatra, Rails, Hanami, Angular, React, Next.JS.
• If you're by nature a Frontend inclined developer, you’ll have experience with responsive design realisation (strong CSS skills, mobile-first web development and/or experience building PWAs).
• You’ll understand good automated testing practices and ideally be a TDD practitioner (experience with one or more of the following highly recommended: rspec/minispec, capybara, cucumber, jasmine, karma, mocha, chai, jest, enzymejs, cypress).
• You’ll have a highly collaborative attitude and be willing to spend the great majority of the time (80+%) doing pair programming.
• You’ll be deeply familiar with at least one Agile framework.
• You’ll know git inside out and be familiar with 'Git Feature Branch Workflow'.
• Have a dev-ops as a culture and mindset. Providing a solution for a CD/CI yourself, making the best artifact for your solution, instead of relaying on others to make that decision for you.

Work model

This is a permanent role available for people who are willing to work UK hours (we usually work from 9am-6pm with ~1h break for lunch). We work remotely (currently the Engineering team is distributed – some of us are based in the UK whilst others work from Portugal, Poland, Greece, France, Spain and Brazil).

How your day-to-day would look like at Lavanda

• You’ll be part of a delivery squad where you’ll work closely with a squad lead engineer, a product manager, a UX designer, a QA engineer and other engineers – including pair programming with the engineering peers.
• Every day: 15 min time-boxed remote standup involving the entire Product team (12 people currently) at 9 AM UK time; quite a bit of remote pairing with different members of the team.
• Periodically: Frontend/Backend guild led architecture workshops.