About native
Native have built a unique nationwide digital and physical presence across student campuses.
Native’s core technology product today is a Ticketing platform, with ambitions to be much more than that to the student community in the future: our product roadmap over the next 12-18 months sees us improving our competitiveness as a Ticketing solution (catch-up with the leading ticketing specialists; deepening our differentiation as a campus-oriented, ecosystem-integrated alternative), starting to handle other types of transaction on campus (in-person, bundled), and connecting the dots with Native’s other operations (brands, media) to create a truly holistic solution for SUs, students and advertisers.
Why we’re hiring for this role
To date, we have successfully partnered with an off-shore development house; and we plan to continue and expand this partnership, but we also want to start building out our own in-house product development capability. We are looking for an experienced engineer to seed our in-house tech team, with the expectation of hiring a small team over the coming months.
We want our first in-house hire to come with a fully-fledged set of relevant Back End skills (we use PHP/Symfony). From day one, we’ll want you to get your hands dirty and build features, and there should be lots of interesting development areas for us to grapple with as part of that over the next few months (building integrations with anything from accounting systems and identity management to media supply-side platforms and content tools; renewing our focus on “B2C” users from B2B; exploring expansion into adjacent technologies/applications like EPOS, Big Data and Programmatic media). And over time, with the growth of the team and the need for us to tackle tech strategy questions for ourselves (security, automation, CI/CD, microservices), there is the potential for your role to grow into managing, and into leadership.
What you will be doing:
- Implementing new features according to product roadmap
- Working with off-shore team to ensure overall quality, code, and architecture
- Hiring and managing a small team of developers to work with you
- Accepting and offering constructive feedback to help you and your peers improve
- Developing your front-end skills (React, NextJS, Typescript) to position yourself to coach, manage and strategise across the full breadth of our Tech operation
What you need to have:
- Significant experience building medium to large scale REST APIs using Symfony
- Very good knowledge of PHP 7.x
- Very good knowledge of SQL (we use mainly MySQL but sometimes also PostgreSQL / NoSQL)
- Basic knowledge of Docker
- Some experience with queue-bases systems (RabbitMQ, SQS)
- Some experience with PhpUnit
Nice to also have knowledge of:
- Redis
- ElasticSearch
- CQRS
- Event Sourcing / Microservices
- AWS
- JS / Lambda
- NoSQL (DynamoDB)
Why will you want to join us:
This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing and dynamic start-up at an early stage. We’re building a fantastic team of creative and driven individuals who love what they do.
We know you may not tick every box, but are open to hearing from you if you've got real potential and drive to learn & grow.
Our Benefits
- We have 25 days + bank holidays for most roles, PLUS a company-wide Christmas shutdown of around 7-10 days
- We benchmark salaries consistently, and have just launched clear frameworks for progression
- We are happy for you to work abroad for short periods, adding on time to holidays so you can travel further away or work in another country
- We give you all the kit you need to work from home
- We have a monthly wellbeing budget
- We are rolling out share options for everyone