Frontend Developer - Maternity Contract

The Mission 🏡

At Wayhome we are reinventing homeownership by co-investing with people who haven't been able to buy a home yet. We’re a team of operations specialists, data scientists, engineers and creatives, who are addressing one of the biggest and most life-changing problems our customers have: how they can get the security and freedom of homeownership for their families and for themselves.

The Company & Team 🚀

We offer a collaborative, challenging environment, where we emphasise excellence and making each other laugh. You will be supported by your colleagues when you need it, and be left to get on with it when you don't. The company is focused on finding more customers left behind by the house market and developing the business to make us more efficient and productive as we scale.

Requirements

The Role ✨

We are looking for a talented frontend engineer to cover a key position in our product and engineering team while they are on maternity leave. This will be a 6-month contract paid on a day rate. We are open to seeing various profiles for this position, whether you are looking for a full-time position, returning back to work, looking for a role that is part-time (3 days a week minimum) or just require a bit of flexibility in your working pattern. We pride ourselves on creating a flexible and supportive working environment and are willing to explore various working options.

What you’ll work on ✍🏻

You’ll work on the entire customer-facing journey (e.g. searching, buying, managing rent) as well as the internal tools needed to ensure our operations team can work efficiently.

• Building new features for our customer-facing websites and internal operational tooling
• Taking ownership of at least one of our main projects while maintaining and improving on our existing ones
• Discussing technical decisions on frontend tooling and architecture with other members of the team
• Be an active participant in our retros, workshops and discussions
• Working with the rest of the team in reviewing upcoming features and contribute to both user stories, acceptance criteria and reviewing designs for feasibility
• Sharing technical knowledge through code reviews and pair programming

Who you are 🤩

• You’re experienced and knowledgeable with our stack:
  • Semantic HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript (we use Typescript for types but it can be picked up quickly)
  • React and related libraries/frameworks
• You’re pro-active and a team player
• You’re curious about frontend tech and enjoy learning new things
• Someone with a good sense of design, an understanding of what makes a good user experience
• You are able to communicate fluently in English.
• You're someone who can talk honestly about the things they’ve achieved, the mistakes they’ve made, and the learnings they’ve gained along the way! You can read more about Wayhome’s values here 🎉

✨️A lot of research shows that men apply to jobs when they feel they hit around 60% of the criteria... but women and marginalised groups tend to only apply if they hit every single ask. Our job ads are a guide, but we won't be looking for a 100% match on paper! We're interested in hearing about how you can contribute to our team, not just tick the boxes.

Flexible working 💻

We are a remote first business with no specific obligations to come into the office (unless you want to). We have a (dog friendly) office in central London if you're unable or don’t want to work from home, or just prefer the buzz of a co-working space. We want to support making your working experience as as enjoyable and productive as possible; so if there is a specific way you want to work or you have particular requirements, let us know: we're always open to discussing it.
We are happy to consider candidates outside of the UK as long as you are able to work within +/- 2 hours GMT and you have the right to work in your current location without a visa (Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this stage.)

Hiring Process 🌱

1. CV review
2. 30 minute initial video call to surface alignment with the HR Manager
3. A more in depth competency interview with the Head of Engineering (hiring manager)
4. A more in depth competency interview including a pair programming exercise with 2 other engineers. We’ll share the task beforehand, so the problem that we’re working on wouldn’t be a surprise.
5. Meet some other Wayhome employees

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