DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE

Driftrock is on the hunt for a Principle Developer to lead our engineering team.

This role is a chance to remain hands on with the codebase, whilst managing a team of passionate engineers who genuinely care about what they do.

WHO ARE DRIFTROCK?

Driftrock was started with the aim of making marketing better. There’s no excuse for being chased around the internet by images of products you’ve already bought!

Instead, Driftrock's software glues together data to build a picture of the customer to help deliver useful marketing messages across advertising, messenger chat and websites, while helping protect privacy.

We're located at the base of the Shard, next to London Bridge station, although have a flexible working policy. Engineers often work remote or home when needed.

TECHNOLOGY

Driftrock’s tooling provides our users with a way to receive, transform, track and optimise leads and actions from various marketing channels. We glue this data together on the fly to build a picture of the customer. 

The technology is a mixture of Elixir, Rubyand React applications hosted on Kubernetes and Google Cloud. We make use of Redis and Postgres for data storage and RabbitMQ for event processing.

THE ROLE

As Principle Developer/Head of Tech, you will lead our engineering team, working directly into the CEO and collaborating with other teams to continually improve our product and drive innovation.

You will be expected to:

• Manage a team of engineers helping them develop their skills in a productive, fun environment.
• Continuously optimise processes and the working environment to scale a successful team.
• Lead from the front, building RESTful APIs, event-based systems and front-end applications;
• Work with well-known public APIs like Google and LinkedIn;
• Collaborate with other teams to improve the product and customer experience;
• Support production systems and manage cloud infrastructure.

ABOUT THE TEAM

We’re a small team of 14 people at Driftrock and growing. Our product development team is currently 5 people, this means you'll be able to have a huge impact on the culture and practices of the team.

We believe in continuous improvement and we are constantly refining and improving how we work and communicate. One of the ways we do this is by performing fortnightly retrospectives, which are often run by different team members.

Currently we make use of daily standups and weekly prioritisation meetings to ensure we're pulling in the same direction and maintaining our focus of delivering value to our end users early and often.

REQUIREMENTS

• You should have some experience managing or mentoring engineers and a view on how to create a productive teams.
• You have had some exposure to Ruby, Elixir or Javascript (we do not expect you to have experience in all of those languages);
• You should demonstrate a desire to continuously learn to improve your (and that of your teammates) technical, managerial, product and personal skills;
• You should have a passion for crafting products that are genuinely useful;
• You are happy working in a small team, collaborating closely with other engineers as well as our product and sales teams;
• You can provide new and diverse viewpoints for our technical and product discussions and be comfortable making technical decisions;
• You are interested in, and have a view on agile practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, pair programming, code reviews and retrospectives;
• You are keen to ensure there is a high standard of quality and security in the software we produce as a team;
• You have the right to work in the UK.

BENEFITS

Live more

We’ve spent a lot of time creating a culture that allows us to enjoy life, be parents, spend time with the people we care about. We think this makes us more productive and creative.

• Flexible office hours - start or finish late depending on how you like to work;
• Remote working - we are able to support remote working;
• Maternity and Paternity - Family comes first, so we have a package that means you can spend the time you need with your growing fam.

Learn more

We believe we’re most happy when we are learning and building new things.

• An open culture where we learn from each-other and together;
• Budget to attend conferences or courses;
• Flexibility to take courses or time on personal goals.

Play more

We’re a tight team, who enjoy spending time together.

• Plenty of team lunches and after-work drinks;
• Bi-monthly socials at some fun venues and events in London;
• Our annual, highly-competitive park olympics.

Earn more

We believe in valuing are employees as people and know that it’s important you feel secure with what you earn, and your financial security.

• Everyone has share options in the company with very favourable option agreements. For example, when you leave the company, you can keep vested share options as options rather than having to buy them or losing them like most companies;
• We have a 6 monthly personal pay review process meaning to help you set goals and increase your pay based on what you achieve;
• A company pension plan.

We will not be considering any recruitment agencies for this role.

"By applying for this job you hereby give us permission to store your data on our secure applicant tracking system and to contact you with regards to Driftrock job opportunities.

We process your data for recruitment purposes only. We would like to keep this data until our open role is filled. When that period is over, we will either delete your data or inform you that we will keep it in our database for similar future roles for subsequent 12 months.

Here’s a link to our privacy policy: https://www.driftrock.com/privacy-policy/. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with GDPR (data protection law.) You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data.

You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data with UK supervisory authority (Information Commissioner’s Office) or you can contact our DPO at dpo@driftrock.com for more information or concerns.”