Backend Lead/Senior developer

Zipcube is the leading marketplace of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces, event and meeting spaces.

We’re making it our mission to enable anyone to access flexible spaces by the hour, day or month. The company has grown to include thousands of locations in major cities across the globe including London, Paris, Berlin and New York.

No matter how much space you need, for how long you need it or why you need it, Zipcube helps you find, compare and book flexible spaces, anytime, anywhere.

“Any space, Anytime, Anywhere”

We’re growing extremely fast and are proud to be backed by some of Europe’s best VCs and the guy’s behind Zoopla, Shazam and Rentalcars.
Welcome to Zipcube. On a mission to help you live inspired.

Our current tech stack includes:
GO, PHP, Python, SQL, redis, React, GraphQL, Git, Slack, trello
Our devops culture includes: CI, CD, Docker, Kubernetes

What your day will involve:
- Delivering clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code; bonus points for full-stack development experience
- Collaborating with stakeholders in the company to rapidly build-measure-learn a world-class product
- Motivating the team past roadblocks to make sure we are shipping features as effectively as possible
- Guiding design discussions; being the voice of experience with helping the team balance flexibility, expediency and scalability & performance
- Contributing to the current move away from monolithic architecture to microservices
- Championing new technologies and enforcing the best development patterns
- Keeping a keen eye on the future, whilst making sure we’re proactively but pragmatically tackling technical debt

Our ideal team member will have the following talents, skills & experience:
- 2+ years of software development experience
- In-depth knowledge of more than one software language among PHP
- Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes
- Experience of agile development practices

Our culture:

- Design matters.
- Keep it simple.
- Code is Art.
- Don’t let your team down.
- Open source is the second best thing after the Internet.

Perks of working with us:
- Central London startup office
- Brand new laptop macbook pro or linux dell xps
- Learning & Development annual budget
- Supper & Taxis home should you work late
- Ride to Work Scheme
- Office tennis league by Spin®
- ‘Mondays Donuts’, ‘Thursday drink’ and ‘Friday Pizza’
- Holiday allowance