Senior Backend Engineer

About TRIM-IT

TRIM-IT is the UK’s first app powered mobile barbershop.

No more waiting in long queues, just simply book a barber to your house, gym or office!

Following our latest investment round we’re growing our franchise network at a fast pace and aiming to triple our fleet over the next 12 months.

We are looking for a driven, motivated individual with strong problem solving skills to help us take our platform to the next level.

The Job

We’re looking for a mid-level to senior backend engineer who has experience using AWS at scale. As well as someone excited to learn the latest technologies and apply them to our mobile barbering experience.

We’d like to improve and scale our APIs and services that handle all our customer, barber and support applications.

You must be driven and have a passion for building efficient backend services with a keen eye for detail.

Requirements

• The ability to work independently or in a team
• Experience in working with backend systems and AWS at scale
• A strong underlying knowledge of JavaScript and Typescript
• Experience in working with TypeScript, NodeJS, GraphQL
• Experience in working with payment gateway APIs

The perfect addition to our team will have experience in:

Backend

• Node
• GraphQL
• TypeScript
• Stripe Payments
• Serverless
• Sequelize
• Documentation

AWS

• CloudFormation
• Serverless SAM

• RDS

  • Specifically Serverless Aurora
  • Migrations

• Lambda

• IAM

• Secrets

• Networking & Content Delivery

  • VPC
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • API Gateway

• Simple Notification Service

• CloudWatch / Monitoring Systems

We are a small team, so it is important that the successful candidate is not only highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!

N.B. You must have permission to work in the UK

Benefits

• £50k - £60k (dependent on experience)
• Working in our dog friendly office in London
• Remote working 1-2 days per week
• Coffee machine and fresh fruit in the office ️
• Free trims
• Fully stocked soft drink fridge - we also do team drinks every Thursday
• Team outings (go-karting, bowling, etc)

We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will not hire through recruiters. Please only contact us if you’re an applicant.