Job Description

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Tech

Hybrid

Farringdon, London

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Introduction

Housekeep is the UK's biggest technology platform connecting customers and cleaners in the 5 billion house cleaning market. We help customers find trusted, local cleaners and assist those cleaners by finding them dense local customer routes, maximising their earnings and saving travel costs.


Housekeep has built a strong foundation in the first eight years. We're the UK market leader - 3x bigger than the nearest competitor - and have delivered 2 million+ cleans with a 4.8average rating. We've reached substantial turnover, growing at 50% each year, and we're already profitable with substantial cash to invest. Our core market is house cleaning in London, and there's a clear opportunity to grow our 1-2% market share by 5-10x in the coming years, building a business with a 100M+ valuation.

We haven't built this position by luck. We've delivered this by being smarter than anyone else, by building innovative tech and by making the right decisions on repeat.


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Why we need you

Disrupting the home cleaning market throws up a lot of hard problems: real-time scheduling, job-allocation, routing and messaging to coordinate thousands of daily home visits. And all this complexity has to be presented to our cleaners, customers and operations staff with beautiful, intuitive user interfaces.


Our ambitions are much bigger than winning in a single vertical. We've built a platform from which we can not only tackle the 5 billion home cleaning market, but from which we can also address the 10 billion commercial cleaning and 40 billion tradespeople markets. We have already made promising starts in each of these new markets, and we plan to scale up our tech team with the very best engineers to supercharge our growth.


We are looking for a bright, driven, AI-native Junior Software Engineer who is excited about solving complex problems and building scalable platforms.


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The role

As a Junior Software Engineer at Housekeep, you will:


Have the opportunity to learn and work across a broad range of technologies Use AI to supercharge your productivity, improve user experiences and tackle complex business problems Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability
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The candidate

You have completed a degree or bootcamp in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Artificial Intelligence You are AI-native, proficient at prompt engineering and comfortable using agentic coding tools to boost your productivity and problem solving You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both You're excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements You will be proud to show how you've impacted other parts of a business and delivered results
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The tech

Our core technologies are:

Python

on the server side, using

Django

as a web framework, and

Django Rest Framework

for our API

Angular

and

TypeScript

on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow

Next.js

and

React

for parts of our marketing website

Ionic

for hybrid and progressive mobile apps

PostgreSQL

for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities

Metabase

for analysis and self-serve data exploration

Redis

for caching and task queues

GitHub

,

Codeship

and

Heroku

for seamless code review, integration and deployment

Claude Code

for agentic coding

AWS

S3

,

CloudFront

and

Lambda

for storage and content delivery

Cypress

for end-to-end testing Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more
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Our tech culture

We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints. We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable.


We strongly believe in ownership at Housekeep, and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users.


We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency.


We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.


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Perks

25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning Cycle to Work scheme Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme Access to Employee Pricing Programs Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel Choice of hardware, OS and IDE - you do you Posh Christmas and Summer parties Tons of sponsored team socials Casual dress code
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What are you waiting for? Apply now

Ready to help build something bigger and better? Apply by now by emailing careers@housekeep.com