A little about us
We empower game-changers in the tech industry. We help our clients shape their businesses, build their brands and launch their digital products.
Our culture
Factory 39 is a team of dedicated professionals who love what we do; striving to improve and learn something new daily! We appreciate and treat our customers as partners, aiming to build good and honest relationships to last. Therefore we value transparency with clients as well as our team.
We build simple and reliable systems on top of modern yet battle-tested technologies we deeply understand and trust. As a consultancy, we work with many different technologies depending on client requirements. Our current projects make heavy use of Java, JavaScript, and Ruby using Spring, Rails, and React with Postgres and Redis providing support. We develop using Docker and deploy onto Kubernetes primarily using AWS and Digital Ocean for hosting.
The Role
We are looking to expand our team with a senior backend software development engineer that loves learning and applying new technologies, can provide technical leadership, and wants to join a fast-growing company. The ideal candidate will have a passion and proven track record of working with agile teams, writing excellent well-tested code, and developing software at scale.
Who you are
- A passionate technologist that loves writing well-tested code
- You have demonstrable experience with an Object-Oriented language (Java and/or Kotlin) and Framework (Spring Boot)
- You have demonstrable experience writing modern Javascript (React, Angular, or Vue)
- You are a self-starter that loves solving problems and learning something new every day
- You have an active Github account with contributions to open source projects
- You have worked in an agile team and practised either Kanban or Scrum
- Unix/Linux system administration experience
- You are an excellent communicator that enjoys working within a diverse team
- You are highly dependable
- You have lead a small technical team
You get extra credit for:
- Demonstrable functional programming experience
- Prior experience in technical leadership
- A Computer Science or other related degree
- Mentoring
What you get
We believe our values and work environment are the biggest benefits we offer. We take them extremely seriously and they are at the core of what we do. Plus we have some cool perks:
- A competitive salary with regular pay reviews and bonuses
- Healthy tech budget to make sure you’ve got your perfect work set-up
- Generous personal development budget and dedicated company-wide hack days focused on employee growth
- 1 week per year for training and personal development
- A well deserved time off with 23 days of paid holiday
- 2 weeks of working from home
- Flexible work environment and hours, we care that you get the job done not when and where (start and finish almost when you want)
- Hybrid work model
- Provident Fund
- A cake on your birthday! 🎂
- Friday drinks
- Access to a pool table plus a PS4
- 2 lovely dogs for emotional support on those rare, rainy Mondays
Sounds interesting? Please send over your CV and a short cover letter
here.
