Fullstack Engineer
Published on May 19, 2023
OfferZen is on a mission to improve the experience of finding work for people involved in making software, from developers to designers and data scientists through the utilisation of our world class online recruitment marketplace. We do this by flipping the traditional recruitment model on its head and getting companies to reach out to candidates with upfront offers. Over the last 6 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace – and we're speeding up. We have a team of 120+ people with offices in both Cape Town and Amsterdam. At 6 years young, we’re still in an exciting start-up phase which allows us to develop new and exciting ideas, innovate our product, and think creatively about solving real problems.
The Opportunity
Our growth product squad is responsible for helping drive the growth of OfferZen’s base of engaged fans, both hiring managers and job seekers. They focus on products experiences such as our referral program, blog, and activation and reactivation journeys, as well as internal tooling to support growth initiatives by content, events and marketing teams.
We are looking for a Full-stack Engineer to join our growth product squad as part of our larger product group. Our product squads are cross-functional teams of talented engineers, product managers and designers working together to design and deliver impactful and quality software.
What you’ll do
- Design, test, and ship quality front-end (React) and back-end (Ruby on Rails) code every week to build impactful new features for candidate, companies and our internal operational teams.
- Influence the design and architecture of backend features
- Share knowledge with your peers through participation in code reviews, pair-programming and the internal backend forums
- Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes and technologies to solve engineering problems
- Uphold our engineering standards and processes
- Debug production issues across services, and help ensure a stable application for the marketplace
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you:
- Minimum of three years experience in software development
- Minimum of three years experience working with Ruby on Rails or Node.js in a production environment
- Minimum of two year experience working with React, Angular or Vue in a production environment
- Excellent problem solving abilities
- Good understanding of patterns, responsibility separation and component-oriented design
- Experience writing unit tests to cover all permutations of added functionality
- Experience with databases - MongoDB would be a bonus
- Room in your closet for numerous free t-shirts
What it's like to work here
We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online and in-person team events, show and tell and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.
We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.
We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset and has an annual training budget to use to upskill. We have internal book clubs which include free books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, and then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for learnings and how to improve.
We're all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote, provide an annual 'unsick' day to use at your leisure and also offer 24 days of leave a year which is available to use from the time you start.
We're good at remote: We are focused on intently creating an exceptional remote working culture for our distributed workforce. Although we have office spaces in Cape Town and Amsterdam, we empower and encourage our team to work remotely. This provides the advantage of flexibility and mobility based on what is most suitable for their lifestyle.
The OfferZen Story
OfferZen is on a mission to help more people thrive in tech - becoming the central place for software makers to build great careers and companies to build winning teams. We do this by flipping the traditional recruitment model on its head and getting companies to reach out to candidates with upfront offers.
Over the last 7 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace – and we're speeding up. We have a team of 120+ people with offices in both Cape Town and Amsterdam. At 7 years young, we're still in an exciting scale-up phase which allows us to develop new and exciting ideas, innovate our product, and think creatively about solving real problems.
- Empathy Can't Be Automated: Solving Complex Problems in a Tech Marketplace. This article gives more insight into the world of tech marketplace advisors and what they do.
- One of the Tech Talent Advisors,wrote about her experience of working at OfferZen on our blog.
If this role excites you and sounds like a great fit, please apply below!