Backend Engineer

Job Description

📣 A bit about the role:

As part of the Platform Operations team, you will work closely with engineers, product managers and stakeholders to help solve our customers' problems and directly impact their (and their dog's) daily lives. As a Backend Engineer in this team, you'll contribute to a number of key, complex operations projects that play a huge part in the growth of Butternut.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Work across the backend stack to deliver quality, maintainable code.
• Collaborate and learn with other team members via pair programming, mentoring, code reviews, and technical talks.
• Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.

You'll get to use a lot of exciting technology here at Butternut including:

• Ruby on Rails
• Postgresql
• Heroku
• AWS
• Terraform
• Github Actions for CI/CD

Here are some of the projects this team have worked on recently:

• A feature that enables customers to choose their preferred courier
• Building the technical infrastructure that underpinned our new market launch in Germany

👋 A bit about you:

• Commercial experience in a similar backend engineering position, on a Ruby on Rails stack (this role is suitable for someone with roughly 3-5 years experience)
• An interest in developing your skills with a real willingness to learn and get stuck in on technical problems
• A true motivation to ship platform projects that have a direct impact on operations.
• Pro-active, driven, entrepreneurial spirit.
• Obsessed with dogs, naturally.

🐶 A bit about us.

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK, Ireland, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

🙌 A bit about what we offer.

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave
• Co-working office space.
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

❗️A few things to note:

• This role can be either hybrid (we have a lovely office in West London), or remote in the UK.
• The interview process is as follows: Initial call with our internal recruiter, a take home technical challenge, a technical interview and a values (team) interview. These are all conducted remotely.
• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
• Our recruitment team is small, so please do bear with us - we will endeavour to come back to all applications personally, however we are not able to provide feedback to those that don't secure an interview