Contract Senior Engineer (5 Months)

We’re Beauty Pie. We’re the world’s first luxury beauty and wellness buyers’ club. And we’re disrupting the beauty industry, one face cream at a time. Before we arrived on the scene, if you wanted really great beauty products, you had to shop at traditional beauty retail - and overpay for all the crazy markups. Now, our members have access to shop from the best-quality beauty and wellness products (from the leading labs in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea, etc) and get a bigger piece of the Beauty Pie. So, what will you be doing? This role is ideal for someone with experience leading technical projects or mentoring others but you don’t need to have ‘Senior’ in your title to apply. You will be joining our engineering team as we scale up to deliver on important business outcomes: • Building stronger, direct relationships with our members: Enabling push notifications to inform members of offers, products, and upcoming releases • Providing a tailored shopping experience: Building the foundational capability for hyper-personalised experiences; product recommendations, frequently bought together, and next best offer • Omni-channel marketing: Accelerating the migration of CRM platforms which provides enhanced efficiency in delivering targeted communication to help drive CTR The role: We are looking for a thoughtful engineer who loves creating smart, user-friendly tech. You care about code quality and collaboration and enjoy solving real-world business problems. You’ve worked in fast-paced teams and shipped quality code regularly in user-centric applications, with exposure to a range of technologies, including some that feature in our stack: AWS, Node.js, Typescript. A typical day-to-day: • Contribute to building solutions to complex technical problems • Delivery of high quality, well tested, maintainable code • Offer counsel and support to other engineers during PR review • Work with the product owner to shape future work, plan releases, and measure success in the features you help to deliver • Work closely with your engineering manager and product owner to chart progress and help inform the predictability of the team’s delivery We believe it's all about mindset, great skills, the right attitude and a fantastic work ethic. If you’re aligned to our values, excited about the opportunity, and you’re really good at what you do (even if you don’t tick all the boxes) apply anyway! • Demonstrable experience building scalable, robust, well-tested, performant, cloud-native solutions to business problems • An excellent understanding of Node.js/Typescript • Experience using other parts of our tech stack (Terraform, AWS, GraphQL, React) • Experience of test automation and continuous delivery • Strong communication and collaboration skills • A keen eye for commercial impact & customer value in the work we deliver What makes someone ‘Beauty Pie’? Our culture is our DNA. It defines who we are, how we operate and how we hire. And it all springs from our values, which are very important to us: • Bring Your ‘A’ Game: Take ownership & accountability. Make sh • t happen. Grow. Support. Evolve. Invent. Be open-minded. • Be Intelligently Rebellious: Challenge the status quo. Push boundaries. Embrace change. Think BIG. • Be Customer Obsessed: Listen & learn. Take ownership. Act fast. Be humble & empathetic. Build & keep trust. Be grateful for feedback. • It’s All For One (& One For All): Take advantage of collective intelligence. Act with integrity. Support & challenge. Embrace individuality. Do right by our company, our members, our colleagues & our environment. We’re committed to diversity & inclusion As a business that’s based on fairness and self-worth, our commitment to inclusivity runs through the heart of everything we do. We believe that innovation and creativity come from having a diverse workforce, and are committed to building teams with unique identities, from different backgrounds and with individual perspectives. We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2024: Employees who identify as female: 68% Employees from minority ethnic backgrounds: 28% Employees who identify as living with a disability: 10% Employees who identify as female in our Product Engineering teams: 32% Employees who identify as LGBTQIA+: 13% A bit about our ways of working We thrive on a high-performance culture where action drives results. At Beauty Pie, we trust our teams to take ownership, move fast, and get the job done. We operate on a hybrid model, with a minimum of three days in the office each week— with some roles requiring more which will be outlined in the job spec. This structure fosters collaboration, maintains momentum, and strengthens our team environment while allowing some flexibility based on job responsibilities and business needs. In-person connection is essential to how we work, and we expect teams to be present and engaged. We encourage open discussions during the interview process to align expectations for the role you are applying for. Your piece of the Beauty Pie: Life & Balance • Free Membership to Beauty Pie + discount off our products • 25 days holiday & your birthday off / 22 vacation days for the US team • Flexible bank holidays • Equal leave for all new parents regardless of gender or personal circumstances Health & Wellbeing • Private Medical Insurance • Menopause support • £2,500 / $2,500 to spend on your fertility journey after 2 years service • 10 therapy sessions through AXA PPP So, what are you waiting for? Apply now for a chance to be part of an inspirational, international and talented team. Beauty Pie is an equal opportunity employer. The company will not unlawfully discriminate on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability or age, pregnancy or trade union membership. Please let us know, if you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the application and/or recruitment process.