SENIOR DEVELOPER

ABOUT RATED PEOPLE

At Rated People, we’re proud to be the UK’s leading online marketplace connecting homeowners with skilled local tradespeople. With more than 10,000 tradespeople across the country covering 200+ trades, we make it easy for homeowners to find trusted professionals—and for tradespeople to grow their reputation and business.

We’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and 95% of work booked through our platform is rated 4 stars or higher. We’re all about building trust, streamlining the process, and helping both sides get the job done right.

OUR VALUES

Energy We bring passion, drive and positivity

Engagement We take ownership, we trust one another

Execution We make it happen

Edge We have courage and are decisive

THE ROLE

Our multiple Backend microservices hold all the necessary business logic for our business to function. We give a big emphasis in providing stable, consistent, and highly available services which provides a reliable experience to both our Homeowners and Trades businesses alike. This is achieved with Java Spring/Spring Boot microservices and Node based APIs for the front-end. We build out customer interfaces using React and React-Native. Looking forward, we plan to simplify these layers and extend the use of Typescript across front and backends. We have a number of legacy systems in play which we are rebuilding, so this there can often be hidden complexities!

As a Full Stack Developer you will be responsible for refining and investigating development work assigned to you, building knowledge of our user interfaces, systems and the business processes. You will be responsible for their adherence to standards, development management processes and reporting, and support as required. We work with AI tooling in the SFDC, to assist development, and also build AI based tools for customers using AI vendors APIs and multi-agent libraries.

You will be a part of a dynamic Agile team working closely with others developers, Product Owners, designers where you will showcase your collaborative skills, as you contribute to standard SCRUM ceremonies while producing quality deliverables in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment.

Our Stack:

BE – Java Spring/Spring Boot microservices, SingleStore DB, NodeJS, AWS Fargate S3 Load Balancers, Docker

Testing - Unit tests, Integration and BDD functional tests.

Apps –React Native Apps (iOS and Android) integrating with internal REST APIs

Web – React, Express, Remix, Tailwind CSS, Storybook, Cloudflare workers integrating with internal REST APIs, Cloudflare D1 (data) and R2 (storage) tools

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create user facing solutions by developing, implementing, and maintaining React based components and interfaces.

• Developing the next phase of the systems developing migration targets to remove legacy systems and implement new features.

• Be a hands-on leader making our product the best that it can be. Collaborate with people across the business and the product team, acting as an SME on the systems and processes.

• Working with the CTO, Head of Engineering, Lead Developers, lead and assist with the solution design, and architectural discussions.

• Create new functionality as well as troubleshoot development and production problems using application monitoring tools to assist you.

• Assist with out of hours Change or Emergency work if required.

• Advocating appropriate unit and BDD functional testing through a test-driven development (TDD) approach in the team.

• Understand the operational characteristics of code and related systems in production, designing sympathetic improvements which can be introduced, measured and iterated with as little disruption as possible. Using Log Management and Alerting systems develop Service Reliability Engineering processes and drive improvements to the full software stack and infrastructure.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone who will always push for best practices, apt solution design, modern technologies and performance improvements. You will be eager to keep up with new technologies and continually update your technical knowledge and skills. We love agile and we would really like for you to have a similar experience of software development. We are a team of passionate, intelligent people who live and breathe our 4 ‘E’ values (Energy, Engagement, Execution and Edge) where everybody is a culture driver and has the autonomy to shape our working environment to make Rated People a psychologically safe, fun and inclusive space for everyone.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU?

We’re proud to offer an environment perfect for creativity, fun and sharing ideas. We offer a competitive salary and a generous range of benefits:

• Hybrid working (2 days per week in our Shoreditch office) or Remote contracts

• 25 days’ holiday (plus one day for every year of service, max 30 days)
  

• Strong and inclusive company culture we all shape and take ownership and pride in, including companywide events, surprise and delights, roundtables and culture clubs
  

• Private medical insurance (including mental health and virtual GP)
  

• Enhanced parental leave policy
  

• Cycle to work scheme
  

• Life assurance
  

• Travel loans