Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.

About the Company

Our SaaS client is looking to expand its engineering team, bringing someone on to act as a 'Founding Engineer' alongside the CTO and Engineering Lead to further build out their business offering.
With a solid technical foundation and a rapidly growing customer base, the business is entering an exciting phase of scale and product expansion. They've recently signed a major customer, unlocking new resources to grow the team and evolve the platform.
The product has earned a strong reputation for reliability, performance, and user experience. Customers rely heavily on it and are highly engaged, often acting as product advocates.

About the Role

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you'll work closely with a small, experienced team including the CTO and other senior engineers. The role will be very hands-on and offer a lot of variety, due to the busy and changing nature of small businesses.

You'll be deeply involved in:

Back-end systems, web apps, and core infrastructure
Scaling and optimising a cloud-based platform
Collaborating with customer-facing teams to respond quickly to user needs
Designing and developing new features and capabilities
Shaping the future of the engineering team and its culture
This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role. You'll take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, contribute to architectural decisions, and help evolve operational processes.

The Company Tech Stack

Primary languages:

Go, C#

Frontend

: Svelte

Infrastructure

: Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, PostgreSQL

Other tools:

Temporal

What They're Looking For

10+ years of commercial software engineering experience
Experience in Go and a willingness to learn unfamiliar languages.
Experience operating and scaling complex cloud-based systems
Strong computer science fundamentals (through studies or commercial experience)
A balance of pragmatism and quality when building software
Comfortable working in Linux-based environments
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
Customer-focused mindset
Someone whose excited about joining a growing business and collaborating with all areas of the business

Why Join?

Be part of a fast-growing, stable company at a pivotal stage
Work with experienced, pragmatic, and friendly colleagues
High degree of ownership and influence
Flexible, hybrid work environment (remote also considered!)
Career growth in a founding-style team setting

Benefits

Generous salary
Equity
Bonus scheme
Flexible working hours/ set-up
Automonmy and career progression
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Role tech stack
Golang


PostgreSQL


C#


AWS


Google Cloud Platform


Life at
Haystack
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Culture overview
We've built the Haystack team on a foundation of solid values and ethics. Our environment is relaxed and enthusiastic; informal and methodical; anti-corporate and highly driven.
Our people have a curiosity for all things tech and are driven by making an impact each day. The Haystack team all bring their own personality and creativity into the dynamic of our company.
We're enthusiastic and ambitious as hell. The only thing flat about us is our company structure. We give everyone responsibility and don't waste time and energy on micromanagement.
Tech recruitment is stuck in the dark ages. But it doesn't need to be. The reality of today is that techies hold all the cards. It's time for a better way to do things.
Besides our impressive array of freshly watered office plants, we provide generous holidays, social events and all the digital equipment that you need to excel in your role.
A combination of decades of experience in recruitment, a strong foundation in technology and our enthusiastic, ambitious nature creates an environment rife for success.
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Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Food
Free Parking
Laptop
Pension
Sabbatical Leave
Office vibe
BEER FRIDGE
CITY CENTRE
FRIDAY DRINKS
HACKATHONS
OFFICE DOG
OPEN PLAN
SOCIAL EVENTS
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Tech at
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Leadership
Mike Davies
Co-founder
Tech overview
We're on a mission to connect the world's tech talent with employers that matter to them and underpinning that mission is our product. The Haystack app has been built for techies, by techies and we're passionate about delivering high-quality features that our users actually want to use. As part of the tech team, you'll have a direct impact on both the Haystack App and the Haystack Employer Dashboard and will have exposure to the full end-to-end solution.
Our core tech stack is made up of React Native, TypeScript, AWS, MongoDB plus a few others and we use Figma to design and prototype. We're constantly on the lookout for great product people, that love to get stuck into a tech challenge and value autonomy.
Sound interesting? Join our talent pool and we'll keep you in the loop with any new opportunities.
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Engineering principles
AGILE PROCESS
CODE REVIEWS
COLLECTIVE CODE OWNERSHIP
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR
RAPID RELEASE CYCLES
REFACTORING
SCRUM
UNIT TESTING
Company tech stack
Adobe Illustrator


Adobe XD


Android


CSS 3


D3.js


Docker


.Net Core


Figma


Git


GraphQL


HTML5


iOS


JavaScript


Kanban


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