Product Engineer - Platform

November 27

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Much Better Adventures

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Holidays • Tech • Travel • adventure

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

Description

• We’re an ambitious, remote-first travel scale-up, looking to expand our engineering team with exceptional product engineers. • Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and security of the tools and systems that empower our teams and drive our core operations. • This role is perfect for engineers with a strong product mindset who enjoy tackling complex technical challenges and designing solutions that balance diverse needs. • You’ll primarily focus on our Django-based backend, optimising workflows, managing data, and delivering secure, scalable services that underpin our future growth. • At the heart of what we do is a mission to build tools and infrastructure that drive meaningful impact. • Our Core team operates at the intersection of product and engineering, where you’ll have the autonomy to innovate and the support to excel.

Requirements

• Proven experience with: • Python and Django, including Django REST Framework (DRF) and PostgreSQL. • React + Typescript • Infrastructure and deployment tools such as Heroku, AWS, and Cloudflare. • BI and operational tools, such as Segment, Metabase, and Xero to support data-driven decision-making and business operations. • Practices and technologies that contribute to safe, continuous delivery, such as containerisation, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines. • And experience in at least one of the following areas: • Security best practices, especially around data handling and privacy. • Quality Assurance expertise to help standardise and enhance our testing practices. • A strong grasp of networking and systems design, with an eye for scalable and secure architecture. • Driven to understand and solve internal user needs while aligning solutions with broader business goals. • Comfortable discussing and refining requests with internal stakeholders to deliver well-scoped, impactful solutions. • Approaches challenges with curiosity, eager to learn and explore complex problem spaces before proposing solutions. • Committed to building reliable, maintainable software with a focus on continuous delivery and TDD. • Metrics-driven, with a scientific approach to problem-solving and a dedication to high-quality code. • Strong collaborative skills, valuing pair programming as a way to improve code quality and knowledge sharing. • Experience Level: Mid to senior (5+ years in industry)

Benefits

• An entrepreneurial and creative environment where great ideas are actively encouraged, and taking responsibility for them is expected • The warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you are making a huge difference to small independent businesses, local economies and communities • 38 days holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) - to be used when you like • Annual company performance-based bonus • Flexible hours set up (40 hours p/w for full time roles), and a fully remote company • Company-wide, adventurous meet-ups • Experience what we do: everyone goes on a free MBA trip within their first year • A £500 annual travel voucher to spend on an MBA trip/s • 30% Employee discount, plus 15% friends and family discount for MBA trips • Generous Pension scheme (UK employees only) • Free access to private GP, and unlimited mental health support and counselling via our partner at BHSF. • Budget to set up a remote working space and access to co-working spaces • Supportive Maternity and Paternity Pay: we offer 16 weeks full pay if you’re the primary caregiver & 4 weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.