Hours of work: Professional but flexible hours, 09:30 – 18:00 Mon to Fri.
Reporting line: CTO.
Package (permanent): £50k-65k (depending on experience).
Location: preferably Edinburgh, but flexible – can be London or remote.
Overview of company
Snugg’s purpose is to make improving home energy efficiency simple and affordable for everyone. We are developing a highly engaging consumer platform that provides personalised, data-driven recommendations to homeowners on how to improve the efficiency of their homes, reducing energy bills and lowering carbon emissions. We also connect users to available grants, financing options from banks and trusted installers to complete the work, tracking savings through smart meters.
Snugg is a new, fast-growing start-up, based out of the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, at the heart of data science and innovation within Scotland. We are looking to build a diverse team of ambitious, creative individuals who care about the global drive to achieving net zero. We are well funded and currently recruiting other skillsets on a permanent or contract basis.
Snugg aims to help the UK take at least a million tonnes of carbon out of our emissions per year and help towards our net zero aims.
Overview of role:
We’re looking for a someone who is keen to be the lead developer of a start-up product, owning the development approach, setting the tech direction and being the hands on creator of a product which will help to achieve climate goals within the UK and beyond.
The role will oversee development of a new web app product built using next.js/React and TypeScript, working with a 3rd party build team and two freelance developers. This will include solution design, hands on development of sections of the application and code reviews of the team’s work. The lead developer will be the owner of Snugg’s infrastructure accounts (currently Netlify and AWS).
The role will also involve working with Snugg’s internal creative resources (UX & design), technical / functional architect and product owner to bring the product vision to life.
Candidates for this senior developer role will need to demonstrate 4+ years experience of building web apps using JavaScript/TypeScript and other web app technologies, including experience of working with databases and building API’s. Knowledge of automated deployment, continuous integration and management of production environments will be advantageous.
The role will initially focus on helping to refine the dev approach and ratifying best practice with the existing external / freelance team, but will expand to hiring new team members and providing advice and guidance to more junior developers.
Key candidate attributes:
- Proven experience developing/architecting technology solutions for modern web apps.
- Ambition to lead and define a high profile technical solution including hands-on coding.
- Experience of robust, secure systems in regulated industries (e.g. financial service) will be advantageous.
Key Responsibilities
- Project delivery throughout the whole project development lifecycle.
- Ownership of the technical development as part of the overall project plan including hands-on coding and code reviews of third parties.
- Defining the balance of permanent, contract and internal versus external resources to build, support and continually evolve the solution.
- Covering the tech lead role on client implementations
- Technology selection and input to vendor selection processes, including proof of concept work.
- Compiling tech specs and tech architecture based functional specs and/or Figma prototypes.
- Defining application layers/tiers.
- Ongoing environment setup and configuration,
- Establishing coding and security standards.
- Hiring and mentoring more junior team members.
How to apply
Please send your CV and cover letter to hello@snuggenergy.com.