Senior Developer

About Swap:

Say hello to The Commerce OS.

We are a global, small, and vibrant team with ideas for making life easier for our e-commerce clients. We are backed by amazing angels from Wayflyer, Zalando, Klaviyo, Pleo, and Brookfield.

Your role

Help build our product from the ground up, in a stable, scalable way. You will be joining our tech team in an exciting phase of hyper growth where you will help shape the future of Swap. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar (and up to date) with their development ecosystem for making sound decisions when it comes to choosing the right tool or library for the job. We expect our engineers to be able to contribute across the entire product stack, as well as collectively oversee the integrity of the codebase.

Your responsibilities

In this role you’ll be:

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward efficient architecture
• Writing design documents and estimates

About You:

Hands-on experience as a full-stack developer with:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in writing Typescript/JavaScript, using Node.js to architect and create REST and/or GraphQL APIs
• Preferred experience working with eCommerce systems and platforms
• Strong technical experience in modern front-end Typescript/JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React.js
• Experience writing unit tests
• Good understanding of and experience with git & git workflows
• Experience with relational DBs, data modelling and writing SQL queries, and familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and the deployment of workloads to cloud infrastructure
• Passion for writing clean, testable and robust code
• A BSc in Computer Science or Mathematics (or equivalent experience)
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, high-growth environments
• A team player mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently

What perks and benefits do we offer?

• Competitive salary and employee share options
• Remote working model with a Mac or PC company laptop (your choice!)
• Competitive holiday allowance (plus public holidays)
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave
• Flexible working hours
• Accelerate your learning potential working at a high-growth startup
• The opportunity to work with a stellar team all around the world

What happens next?

• We’ll review applications and reach if we’re interested in taking your application further