Position: Full Stack Frontend Engineer for Responsible
Company: Blackbird Lab
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

RESPONSIBLE is building technology to enable brands to offer circularity and keep garments out of the landfill.

We build products that are customer-facing, brand-facing, and at the infrastructure level. This includes apps people use to send back items (Buy Backs), e-commerce and retail store integrations to enable credits for returned items, private and public APIs, etc.

Our goal is to grow the adoption of circularity in the fashion industry by making it turn-key for brands. Recommerce today is like e-commerce was in the early-2000's are there are many interesting challenges to solve.

This role is for a Team Lead interested in building software to solve those problems, change the fashion industry, and help the environment.

RESPONSIBLE works with premium brands to enable their customers to return items for store credit and give them a second life. We are making circularity as turn-key as e-commerce.

**The person**

We are looking for an experienced, senior-level full-stack engineer: with a speciality or preference in **Frontend** development. The person is skilled and comfortable in their craft after years of working with real-world production applications. They are also opinionated enough to participate in implementation discussions, but humble enough to be open-minded to others' ideas.

**The work**

- You’ll lead a team of developers to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain a variety of Responsible’s software products, both customer-facing and infrastructure.
- You’ll be involved throughout the product design cycle as the advocate for engineering, helping to define features to have the right balance of effort-to-benefit.
- You’ll contribute to defining high-level architecture and integrations with partners, where your experience and intuitions will be useful.
- You’ll also be contributing code and ensuring its high-quality standard within the team. Expect your coding-to-management ratio to be 80/20.
- Finally, you’ll act as a coach and mentor to your team, helping them to learn and become better in their craft.

**Our tech stack**

- Frontend: React with the NextJS framework
- Backend: NodeJS on the NestJS framework
- Database: Postgres
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Azure Cloud
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps

**Qualifications**

- 5+ years of experience in software development
- 3+ years of experience in our tech stack above
- Bachelor's degree in a software-related program
- Upper-Intermediate English-speaking level
- Clear, concise communicator
- Excellent time management and organization skills
- That would be great if you have a pet project or contribute to open source

**Compensation**

- Salary + options depending on skill

**Benefits**

- Holidays: 21 days plus local statutory
- Computer hardware & software
- Employee discount
- Cycle-to-work scheme (if local)
- Pension: 5% monthly employee contribution, 3% employer (UK residents only)
- Healthcare – Aviva (UK residents only)

Responsible is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK but this role is available to anyone to work remotely in timezones between GMT+0 and GMT+2. Some benefits (as noted above) are only available to UK residents.