Engineer

Openr is transforming how the hospitality industry manages and shares data. By centralising recipe, product, and pricing information, we help hospitality businesses seamlessly connect to platforms like Deliveroo and Just Eat, as well as EPOS and other customer touch points. We’ve recently closed a significant funding round and are backed by Azzurri Group, one of the UK’s most successful hospitality investment platforms. With strong market traction, we’re growing our engineering team.

About the Role

We’re looking for a mid-level engineer to join our small, collaborative engineering team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be writing code every day, contributing to real product decisions, and growing your skills alongside experienced engineers who are invested in your development. You’ll work across the full stack. You don’t need to have done it all. What matters is that you’re curious, care about your craft, and want to keep getting better.

What You’ll Be Working With

Our stack includes TypeScript, React, and React Query on the frontend, with AWS Lambda, Node.js, and PostgreSQL on the backend, running on AWS cloud infrastructure. You don’t need experience with every part of this. We care more about how you think and learn than whether you’ve used a specific tool before.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building and Delivering: You’ll contribute to building and shipping features, help keep our codebase healthy, and develop your understanding of how to balance speed with quality. Over time, you’ll get involved in identifying bottlenecks, improving reliability, and shaping how we build things.
• Growing and Collaborating: You’ll work closely with more experienced engineers who’ll support your growth, through code reviews, pairing, and open technical conversation. As you grow into the role, you’ll start contributing your own perspective to how we approach problems.
• Getting Involved Beyond the Code: We’re a small team, so everyone has a voice. You’ll get exposure to product thinking, technical planning, and conversations with non-technical colleagues, good preparation for wherever you want to take your career.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll likely have:

• A working understanding of SQL and relational databases
• Comfort working with version control and collaborative development workflows
• An interest in how systems fit together, APIs, services, data flow

It’d be great if you have, but it’s not essential:

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar)
• Familiarity with serverless or event-driven patterns
• Some exposure to React or frontend development
• An interest in SaaS or integration-heavy platforms

We’re more interested in how you approach problems than how many years you’ve been doing it.

What We Offer

• Flexible hybrid working.
• No out-of-hours support.
• Real influence.
• A learning culture.
• A collaborative team.
• 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance (4× salary)
• Income Protection (75% salary after 26 weeks)
• Access to WeCare Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Annual eyecare voucher with Specsavers
• Wrkit Savings & Benefits platform

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. Curiosity and a desire to learn matter more to us than a perfect checklist.