Full-Stack Software Engineer I

Kooth is a digital mental health provider creating accessible and anonymous support for young people. The Full-Stack Software Engineer I will build and release features across RESTful Node APIs, React frontends, and React Native mobile applications while collaborating across disciplines and developing software engineering expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building RESTful Node APIs, React frontends and/or React Native mobile apps
• Regularly releasing working software, using trunk-based development, automated test suites, and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Incorporating requirements such as performance, resilience, observability, maintainability, security and accessibility
• Collaborating with other disciplines, building effective working relationships
• With your team, achieving a shared understanding of user needs, Kooth commercial and operational goals
• Deepening knowledge of industry trends and best practices in software engineering, continuous integration, application design & architecture through pair/mob programming and other knowledge sharing approaches
• Shadowing the out-of-hours on-call response rota

Requirements:

• Enthusiasm for software engineering, across the whole stack
• A strong problem-solving attitude and willingness to contribute to technical decisions
• Some knowledge of Javascript or Typescript, and of database technologies such as PostgreSQL and experience in delivering a web or native mobile application
• A quality mindset, understanding what it means to ship maintainable, well-tested code
• Focus on pragmatic delivery, able to take ownership appropriately
• Understanding of the benefits of agile processes, data-informed development, and reliability
• Strong communication skills, builds great colleague relationships across disciplines
• Web or mobile application development experience using React or React Native
• Experience with rapid application development techniques such as trunk-based development, automated testing at all levels and infrastructure-as-code
• An awareness and curiosity about application design and architecture patterns
• Worked in a cloud native environment like GCP or AWS with Kubernetes