Software Developer

Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 dependant on experience

Location: Birmingham, UK or Exeter, UK

Home working vs. office: we are flexible with regard to home working vs. office; we want you to work where you do your best work. As a guide, across our business we will typically do 1 or 2 days a week in the office. In the early stages of your career with us, we may ask you to be in the office more, but we will always seek to be accommodating (e.g. childcare; appointments; etc.).

Who are Good Growth?

Good Growth’s primary mission is to enable large businesses and organisations to innovate online, without letting their legacy tech stacks slow them down. Many of the websites you see – some of which might belong to your favourite retailers – are often over a decade old, relying on older systems and legacy technology to continue running.
Whereas a lot of companies will see this is as a barrier, Good Growth sees Legacy Tech as an asset. We enable businesses to innovate at breakneck speeds, with lower risk and time costs. We drive change and create value in areas that previously seemed unworkable. You can find out more about us and the clients we have worked with at https://goodgrowth.co.uk/.
We are based in Birmingham, Exeter, and London. Broadly speaking these are the homes of our Tech, Data, and Client Teams respectively.
We believe passionately in allowing our clients to innovate at speed within their current constraints. Through our experience of doing this we have developed a software platform - Good Growth Technology (GGT) - that you would both use and contribute to the ongoing development of.

The role

We are looking for someone to join our Tech Team as a Software Developer. You would be joining a collaborative and supportive team and work across a range of technologies. We’re small, but mighty. This means you’ll get exposure to a broad range of tasks, clients and people.

Our core platform stack is made up of Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. The tooling layer which sits on top of this consists of React, GraphQL and TestCafe. All our tech is deployed onto Google Cloud Platform, with an increasingly large percentage of this being automated through
Terraform. We care deeply about quality and place a heavy emphasis on automated testing and peer reviews.

Although exactly what you were working on would evolve over time the role would initially have two primary focuses:

• Delivering the tests for our Test and Learn programmes - this involves using our GGT software and may include writing code for deployment into CRO tools.
• Contributing to our tooling layer - as a user of our tech you would be empowered to make changes to it based on what we learn through using it.

The process

• Informal chat (either in person or on video call) - to explore further if this role could be a good fit for you.
• Skill test - we will ask you to show evidence of your skills in a relevant area.
• Work date - we invite all candidates (for all roles) to spend a day in the business to get a much better sense of what the job would actually be like, with whom you'd be working, etc. This is as much for you as it is for us. This day would be paid irrespective of if you were offered the role.

Skillset

Essential

• (Vanilla) JavaScript

• HTML

• CSS

• A proven track record of delivering projects to a high standard and on time.

• A proven ability to work within an agile team.

• Availability to be in a Good Growth office at least once per week.

Desirable

• JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, etc.).

• Automated testing.

• CRO tools (e.g. Optimizely; Google Optimize; Monetate; etc.).