About Company
Job Description
Summary
We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join a small but growing team of engineering, product and growth experts. Weve been incubating a completely new product internally and its growing rapidly. Brands such as Messina, Pullman Hotels and Chargrill Charlies leverage our tool to build innovative new digital experiences to further engage their already fanatical customers. The MVP backend is built with Python (Django) and Hasura in order to optimise for rapid iteration but were hitting our limits and were looking to design and build a new Node based backend to support the growing number of customers and features. Our team works autonomously within Liven and the product weve built has gone from inception to hundreds of thousands of monthly users. Were now 2 years into this venture and still just getting started. You will join the team at an exciting time where you can have an outsized impact in shaping the future of our technology stack. This role would be a perfect fit for a pragmatic, innovative and autonomous individual who is keen to have a large impact on a rapidly scaling product.
Key Responsibilities
- Be a key leader in the design and development of our new Node based backend and implement a strategy for a seamless migration
- Support our existing Django backend to ensure availability of existing features to our customers in the interim
- Make pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance product iteration speed with overall system stability, technical debt, cross-platform optimisation and testing practices
- Mentor developers and conduct rigorous code reviews to empower a growing team
- Collaborate closely with the product and design functions as well as the frontend engineers to efficiently build the right thing in the most fit for purpose way
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- Confidence in designing new systems and applying your own experience to advise on the right trade-offs and raise flags if necessary
- Experience building backend solutions to support high performance web apps, preferably Node (and Typescript)
- Autonomy to get features built and own them in production
- Strong ability to collaborate with other engineers in the team as well as your product and design counterparts
- Full stack experience with React and GraphQL is highly desirable but not required
What's in it for you?
- Opportunity to own and design backend platform, as well as lead the migration to Node.
- Remote working but we do get together when we need to.
- Share Options - its important to us that everyone has the opportunity to be an owner and can share in our success... get in early!
- Learning, learning, learning - Full access to our e-learning platform.
- Ability to work on innovative tech and bring your ideas to life.
About Liven
Liven is the world's #1 engagement platform for restaurants, hospitality, venues & events. Over 1.1mil+ diners use Liven every day to earn rewards, pre-purchase and unlock exclusive experiences at their favourite restaurants, cafes and bars. The proof is in the pudding, with an App Store Rating of 4.9/5 after 13k+ reviews. More than 5k+ venues use Liven to serve, engage and connect with their guests like never before. With end-to-end integrations across point-of-sale, ordering, payment and digital experiences, Liven is a growth engine that revolutionises how customers engage, pay and stay loyal through helping merchants take control of their customers, data and finance. A winner of Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge for Blockchain and Digital Payments, Liven is an exceptionally unique, fast growing tech start-up rewriting the playbook for hospitality payments and loyalty. Join us on this mission and you won't look back.Skills
- Software Engineering
