Software Engineer - Frontend

What We're Looking For

Most of your work will involve frontend development, but if needed, it would be great to have someone willing to step in on other areas of the platform also. If you’ve never worked with NodeJS before and you’re willing to learn, we’re happy to support you.

You’ll ideally be someone who enjoys taking ownership of pieces of work (including the technical breakdown and communicating with stakeholders, as well as writing code), takes initiative and enjoys teaching and learning from others.

As we’re beginning to scale, this role is a great opportunity to help influence how we build up our product, platform and team. We want to help you leverage your strengths and make the role your own.

Please note that, due to the nature of the work we do with global governments and partners, all employees are required to pass BPSS verification.

Requirements

• Solid communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong JavaScript skills
• Experience with React
• An eye for detail and the ability to reproduce designs as high quality code
• A willingness to learn and help others grow
• Willing to get stuck in wherever you can provide the most value, even if it's an area that's new to you
• Demonstrated experience in delivering production ready code on several projects - we’re open to people both at the mid and senior levels of their career
• Understanding of best practices around building scalable, maintainable and performant designs and code
• Comfortable working in an agile environment

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Apolitical is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

(In addition to working with smart, kind people on one of the most important challenges of our time…)

Stock options: Our employee options plan gives you a stake in our vision.

Flexibility: Everyone works differently. Whether it’s early mornings, late nights or a day at home, we support what gives you energy and makes you effective.

Holidays: Unlimited holidays, trusting people to take what they need when they need. As a restorative reboot, we give everyone on the team the last Friday of every month off.

Office: We’re a hybrid working company, but when we’re at the office, we’re based 3 minutes North of in Elephant & Castle, easily accessible from all areas of London. We also have flexibility around remote work.

Parental leave: 4 months' maternity, paternity and adoption leave.

Development: Learning and development budgets for books, conferences and courses. We also offer learning time off and have an extensive library to which every team member contributes their favourite book.

Socials: Monthly virtual socials and more in-person meet-ups as some of the team head back into the office.

Financial wellbeing: Pension contribution on a banded scheme, salary sacrifice, and access to Maji, a financial planning tool to help you achieve your goals.

Knowledge-sharing: On Fridays we have talks on Zoom from team members to public service members sharing their work.

Mental Wellbeing: Membership to Spill, supporting employee mental health through Slack.

• ️ Cycle-to-Work: We are registered on the UK’s Cycle-to-Work scheme, so you can buy a bike and cycling accessories tax-free.

Discounts: Exclusive discounts and rewards at over 30,000 brands through CharlieHR.

Before applying, please read Apolitical’s Leadership Principles. Check in particular that you're excited by the autonomy and changeability that a Series A stage startup demands.

Non-discrimination and equal opportunity policy

Apolitical is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, colour, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

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• Opportunities to learn and develop, including twice monthly learning days and a learning budget
• A welcoming, collaborative team environment
• Unlimited holiday allowance
• The last Friday of every month as a company holiday
• Company holiday during the winter holiday period
• Flexible working
• Post-COVID hybrid working model
• Cycle to work scheme
• Parental leave for all genders
• Library
• Discounts

• Informal phone screening chat (~30 mins)
• Pairing exercise (~1 hour)
• Tech fit interview (~45 mins)
• Team fit interview (~45 mins)
  

We've designed our interview process to be as easy for candidates as possible, while still giving us enough information to make a decision. Because of this, we've opted for a pairing exercise rather than a take home coding exercise. We are aware, however, that everyone is different. If we invite you to interview and a different format would make you more comfortable, please speak to us and we'll see how we can accommodate it.
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