Junior Software Engineer

London
£37,000-50,000 per year
Permanent
Full-time

20 days ago
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Reporting directly into our Head of Engineering, you'll be working across our comprehensive workspace management platform. This is a full stack role where you'll contribute to our microservices architecture, frontend applications, and learn about our infrastructure. It's a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills across a modern, distributed system at scale.We define ourselves as product engineers - this means we love building products, thinking about the user experience, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. As a junior product engineer, you'll develop the ability to understand how your code impacts users and learn to contribute to product discussions with growing technical insight.*Please note that if you are unable to provide a portfolio via either a public repository (e.g. via Github) or a public facing website, we will not consider your application.🔹 Responsibilities

Feature development: Build features across our microservices architecture, working with Go-based backend services and React/Next.js frontend applications under guidance from senior engineers
Code contribution: Write clean, tested code following established patterns and contribute to our 40+ microservice ecosystem with proper code reviews and mentorship
Learning & growth: Actively learn our full technology stack - from GraphQL APIs and gRPC services to mobile apps, with support from the team
Code quality: Follow code quality standards, participate in code reviews, and learn best practices for writing maintainable software
Product collaboration: Work with product managers, designers, and engineers to understand requirements and deliver user-focused solutions
Bug fixing & maintenance: Identify and fix bugs, improve existing features, and help maintain system reliability
Documentation: Write clear documentation for your code and contribute to team knowledge sharing
Development practices: Learn our deployment pipeline, work with our custom Kitt CLI tools, and understand our development workflow

💡 Our team highlights

Quarterly hackdays
Integrated personal development time (3 days a quarter)
Engineering show and tell over pizza and refreshments
Up-skilling budget
A culture focussed on developer experience and giving you a platform to thrive and grow both technically and personally (we are obsessed with DX)
Mob programming & pair programming
Dedicated mentorship from senior engineers

👤 About you

Experience: 0-3 years of software engineering experience with some exposure to modern development practices. New graduates or career changers with demonstrable coding skills are welcome
Technical foundation: Basic proficiency in at least one programming language (bonus points for Go, TypeScript, or similar strongly-typed languages) with eagerness to learn distributed systems and cloud platforms
Learning mindset: You're excited to learn about large-scale systems and understand how different components work together to create great user experiences
Product curiosity: You're naturally curious about how products work and care about building things that users love. You want to understand the "why" behind what you're building
Growth orientation: You're eager to learn from feedback, ask questions, and continuously improve your technical and product skills
Team player: You work well with others, aren't afraid to ask for help, and enjoy collaborative problem-solving
Scale-up energy: Excited to work in a friendly scale-up environment with the mission to transform workspaces globally
Communication: You can clearly communicate technical concepts and are comfortable working in cross-functional teams
Quality mindset: You care about writing good code and want to learn best practices for testing and building maintainable systems

🚀 Some of our products

Groceries - we have an in-house groceries product that facilitates fulfilling our customer’s subscriptions to their grocery products, as well as empowering our delivery drivers to pick from our warehouse and deliver products efficiently to our network
Access Control - we have an internal access control system that enables our technical teams to visit sites from the same app they use to do their work
App & Web – Kitt’s core customer experience is encapsulated in our native app and web products, which allows user’s to access their space digitally, from opening doors, to booking desks and setting up subscriptions to services that Kitt provides.
Operational Systems - We have a plethora of internal tools that our in-house team uses to manage our network of spaces and ensure our customer experience is the best it can possibly be, from an in-house request system, to smart automatic scheduling of jobs and operatives across our portfolio.

💻 Our StackHere's the technology we use, it would be ideal if you have experience in these, but don't worry if you don't, we foster a culture of continuous learning and development, so you will have opportunity to get to grips with new technologies.

Backend & Microservices
Go - Primary language for our 40+ microservices
gRPC & Protocol Buffers - Inter-service communication
GraphQL - Client-facing API gateway
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis - Data storage and caching
Google Cloud Pub/Sub - Event-driven architecture
Frontend & Mobile
TypeScript - Primary frontend language
React & Next.js - Web applications
React Native & Expo - Mobile applications
CSS, CSS-in-JS - Styling
GraphQL Codegen - Type-safe API integration
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI & Gemini – We use OpenAI models to ease our internal teams workflows, as well as automating some time intensive manual tasks. We’re looking to bring AI to the forefront of our operational workflows.
Infrastructure & DevOps
Kubernetes - Container orchestration
Docker - Containerisation
Terraform - Infrastructure as Code
AWS & Google Cloud - Multi-cloud setup
Custom Kitt CLI - Development tooling
CircleCI - CI/CD pipeline

Why Kitt?The world of work has shifted forever. As people everywhere prioritise purpose over their paychecks, company culture has been thrown into the spotlight. But the problem is, too many companies are showing up to work in bland, cookie-cutter offices. We’re leading this change.Real company culture can only be built in-person, in the real world – and for it to be authentic it needs its very own, personalised space. That’s why we create offices as unique as the brands and the people who work there. We’re long-term culture partners to our clients long after they've signed the lease and chosen the paint colours.We’re disrupting an industry that has long needed a shake up, and with our sights set on helping every brand find their dream home, the future of office space and culture is in very good hands.We’ll Kitt you out

💰 Starting salary of between £37,000 - £50,000
🏖 28 days holidays a year plus Bank Holidays
🍼 Parental leave: up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for the primary caregiver
💔 Pregnancy loss support leave
🕺 Regular socials. We love a good party.
🧑‍🍳Free weekly lunch, bi-weekly breakfast and daily snacks
🍕Team socials on a Thursday
🤑Octopus MoneyCoach
👶Workplace Nursery Benefit
🚲Cycle to Work scheme
🚉Season Ticket Loans
🧠Plumm - to support your mental health and wellbeing

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