Beauty Pie

Tech Lead

Beauty Pie

Remote job description

Beauty Pie is disrupting the beauty industry. Our aim is simple: provide beauty and health lovers the highest quality health and beauty products, made by the world's best laboratories. As the first luxury beauty and wellness buyers' club, our products are sold directly to our members without the prohibitive industry mark-ups. Technology powers everything that we do, and contributes to making our business model unique!

As part of our team? You'll learn a lot. (We're all learning a lot.) You'll be multi-tasking, you'll make some great decisions and some bad ones. You'll have highs and lows. It won't be easy (because that would be boring). But you'll be moving fast, identifying and solving problems, iterating and evolving, and you'll bring your best to the game. In fact, it's not very often you get an opportunity like this - to help grow a great brand, for a rocketship of a business that will scale in size and go global. One that thrills its customers. And delivers happiness. We'll be asking for your input, experience, teamwork, ideas, and camaraderie, while we navigate the unknown, the mysterious and the upside together!

A bit about our Technology: We are using the latest progressive and native web technologies, alongside headless e-commerce tools and systems, to create a shopping experience nothing like what people experience today. Technologies include Next.js and React, GraphQL, deployed with Terraform on cloud services including AWS, GCP and Vercel. Driven by data science, machine learning and analytics, from multi-variant testing, through to personalising the shopping experience, every customer will have a unique and tailored experience just for them, across every digital channel.

Description of the role

You're a Tech Lead who wants to build high-quality user-centric applications with experience of shipping code at high cadence. You're very confident with our technology and modern development practices. You have a deep knowledge of best practice in developing for the web, covering accessibility, performance, semantic mark-up and state management.

Motivated by building great products that solve real problems, whether it's improving our customers' experience, enabling our own team through great tooling or improving website conversion metrics. You care about the quality of the work you produce, aiming to make it stable, maintainable and easy to work with for the rest of the Beauty Pie Team.

Keen to work collaboratively, communicate potentially complicated and technical concepts in ways that make it easy for other disciplines to understand. In the areas you don't have much prior experience, you're excited by the prospect of getting stuck in and learning something new.

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join our team. On a day to day basis, you will be responsible for:

  • Leading one of our cross-functional teams to build high innovation e-commerce services for growth & marketing
  • Leading the delivery of the e-commerce wider ecosystem of services and capabilities on a AWS first architecture
  • Playing an active role in our code review process, reviewing code from across the team as well as making it easy for others to review the code you write
  • Contributing to discovery, ideation and research alongside designers, engineers in order to identify, prioritise, solve problems iteratively.
  • Gaining an understanding of our business, our customers, and our domain, allowing you to use your judgement to make autonomous decisions.
  • Sharing your knowledge/experience/interests with the team - be it through pairing, a talk or external speaking opportunity.
  • Leading and grow a team around you to be all leaders

Requirements

We believe it's all about mindset, great skills and attitude and a fantastic work ethic being key. If you're aligned to our values, excited about the opportunity, and you're really good at what you do (even if you don't tick all the boxes) apply anyway! *

  • Lead large multi-million pound technical programmes of work
  • Demonstrable experience developing backend or full stack applications for the web
  • Demonstrable experience of continuous delivery and full testing automation
  • Experience with version control (ideally Git & GitHub)
  • Experience using technologies like Typescript, Node, Terraform, AWS, and GraphQL
  • The stated experience and background is a guide and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite skills can be demonstrated.

And finally

The code we write is largely based on Javascript, although we aren't afraid to explore new and emerging technologies and tools if they are right for us. Our progressive store front sits on Next.js for a lightning user experience that is discoverable by search engines. We use Chakra UI for our React component library to build a world class customer experience. We'll likely build native at some point too. We've not yet decided whether to go pure native build or React Native. No need to rush into decisions!

All our clients sit on GraphQL to provide a clean abstraction from all the underlying headless services, some we'll buy off the shelf and others we'll be building ourselves. Again, we haven't decided what tech to use for this yet, one step at a time. We host the majority of our world on AWS, built with Terraform, but like the code we write, we're always experimenting with new technologies and tools that align to our business needs.

It's not all about the languages and tools we use. Continuously delivering business value through rapid delivery, learning and adapting is our mantra. We use the latest modern software delivery processes with an ambition to automate everything, branch, build, deploy, test, ship, watch, monitor and alert all fully automated, so we can focus on building an awesome experience for our customers and back office business.

Our Values

Our culture is our DNA. It defines who we are, how we operate and how we hire based on our values:

  • Bring Your 'A' Game - take ownership & accountability, make shit happen, grow, support, evolve, invent, be open minded
  • Be Intelligently Rebellious - challenge the status quo, push boundaries, embrace change and think big
  • Be Customer Obsessed - listen & learn, take ownership, act fast, be humble & empathetic, build & keep trust, be grateful for feedback
  • It's All For One (& One For All) - take advantage of collective intelligence, act with integrity, support & challenge, embrace individuality, do right by our company, our members, our colleagues & our environment

Our Benefits

  • As always, there are a few perks
  • Free Membership to Beauty Pie
  • A piece of the Pie with Share options
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Contributory Pension Scheme (UK) 401k Scheme (US)
  • Life Assurance at 2 x annual salary
  • Regular social events
  • An allowance to set up your home office
  • 25 days holiday (UK) 22 days holiday (US)
  • Your birthday off
  • Flexible bank holidays (You choose them!) ?
  • 60 days work from anywhere worldwide
  • Access to mental health support through Spill
  • Learning & development opportunities and use of Udemy



Summary
Company name: Beauty Pie
Remote job title: Tech Lead
Job tags: beauty

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