Based in central Cambridge (near the station), our engineering team of around fifteen people creates almost all of our technology in-house. It’s not easy. In fact, it’s really hard, but we’re smart, we work fast and we have fun. And now we’re looking for new people who’d like to join us and do the same.
Here’s what you’ll DO
- Build fast, beautiful, and converting websites
- Grow the processes for developing our website and web tools
- Work alongside our engineering team’s mature processes and culture
- Engage with our marketing team to understand and deliver upon their requirements
- Autonomously deliver on a well-defined product backlog of work
- Support the website with our DevOps team to ensure maximum uptime
Our TECH STACK
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Headless CMSs
- API driven web apps
- HTML
- OO PHP
- CSS / SASS / Tailwind
- JavaScript / VueJS / AlpineJS
- SQL
The TECH SKILLS you’ll need
You don’t need to have every skill here, but the more the better. As we’re a small team, you’ll have the opportunity to get your hands dirty working on anything and everything. We’re looking for experience of:
- Developing WordPress sites
- Custom WooCommerce checkouts
- Maintaining WP Engine and CloudFlare
- Working with data layers
- Payment platforms
- Full stack web development
- Release management
- Specification management
- Stakeholder management
OTHER SKILLS you’ll need
- People who get stuff done. We can’t overstate this. We ship updates to our website and tools to real users in a fast-moving market that works in dog years (that’s 7x faster)!
- Attention to quality. We can’t overstate this either. Every bug we ship damages our reputation, and every bit of code that’s hard to modify costs us time and money.
- Technical virtuosity. We’re small, so we have to be smart. We need web “artists” with a genuine passion for creating clean, fast websites that really “sing”.
- Commercial and user nous. Really understanding what works best for a customer, not just defaulting to the easiest technical solution. You also need to understand why we’re doing it, and appreciate what makes our users tick.
- Independence and teamwork. Yes, both. We need people who can work unsupervised by themselves on one day, and as a part of the pack the next.
- Clear thinking under uncertainty. We live in a complex world and we don’t always have all the data. We need people who can fill in the gaps and imagine the whole picture.
- A “can do” approach to life. If something looks hard – impossible even – we still try to find a way to do it, or something very like it. See also “get stuff done” above.
What we OFFER IN RETURN
- The chance to use today’s most relevant and exciting technologies to build new websites and tools that get released to real users (dog owners!) as often as every two weeks.
- An incredibly supportive and friendly team that believes in listening to everyone’s ideas and helping everyone to do their very best job.
- The opportunity to kick start or grow your career through our commitment to on-the-job training and our fortnightly “hack Friday” sessions.
- Fully-flexible working based either from our easy-to-get-to office (bring your dog if you like) or from your home, or both. As long as you’re in the UK, you could work with us.
- The chance to be part of a successful tech start-up, and to see from the inside what makes a fast-growing business like ours succeed.
- A fun and sociable culture with lunchtime BBQs in our garden and regular out-of-hours events.
How to APPLY
We’d love to talk to you, and there will be lots of people wanting to talk to us. But we can’t talk to everyone. For the best chance, we’d love you to send TWO things to talent@pitpatpet.com:
1. Your CV.
2. A brief email mentioning how your previous experience would help you make the best contribution to our team according to the skills we need sections above.
In return, we promise to reply letting you know whether we’d like to take the conversation further. And if we do, and you have a dog, don’t forget to ask us for a PitPat with our compliments. :-)
Good luck!