🐦 Who are we? What are we building?

We are Birdie, we are innovators that serve the social care space through our software products. In 2023 we enabled a remarkable 30 million care visits, we expanded into a new market and our product is now available in the UK and Germany, we also grew by adding 97 amazing new hires. This year we have joined TechNation's FutureFifty 2024 cohort and we will position ourselves to make even more big jumps in scaling into the future.

The opportunity ahead is massive. We need people like you to make it a reality. This is engineering on hard mode - the safety and quality of care for older adults is at stake. Come join us and deliver outsized impact on their lives every single day. And do so in an environment of passionate individuals that want to grow themselves, each other, and of course the Birdie product. As an engineer at Birdie, you won’t be completing tickets set by others, but rather collaborate with product and design peers to define the problems and shape the solutions that we build together.

Check out our values and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions.

🚀 Your mission at Birdie

As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for the engineering delivery of product features, working with your fellow product managers, engineering managers, designers and engineers. It will be your responsibility to ensure that we are constantly delivering high-quality features for our customers and partners while maintaining a low technical debt.

You must be able to inspire and lead in the broader product & engineering team with a deep passion and hunger to solve the problems our customers and the industry is faced with.

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute:

• You will own the technical output of the team, ensuring that the team is delivering impactful features with excellent quality;

• You will act as a role model for your team by building and shipping a lot of safe, simple, secure, and performant code, and you can demonstrate that with metrics and data;

• You will be the technical interface between the team and the rest of the Staff and Principal engineers, ensuring that technical knowledge, decisions, and priorities are flowing to and from the team;

• You will ensure that the team builds for scalability and reliability, both in the short and long term;

• You’ll guide the team to maintain alignment with the broader organisation’s engineering standards, deviating from them when necessary.

🤩 What we love to see

Whilst we don’t require nor expect expert level knowledge in our entire stack (naturally)😅, we find candidates who have expertise in some of the following will have the most success in our hiring process.

• Go (either professional knowledge or demonstrable ability to learn it quickly and effectively)

• Node based web frameworks (Express, NestJS etc…)

• SPA frameworks (ideally React)

• Strongly typed languages (ideally Typescript)

• Distributed systems (microservices mainly but we also use microfrontends).

• Automated testing (Jest, Cypress etc…)

• Relational databases (ideally Postgres)

• Event driven architectures (Kafka)

• Observability tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Open Telemetry etc…)

• Container based DevOps (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS etc…)

• Small iterative delivery cycles

• Autonomous cross disciplinary software development teams.

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you feel you meet enough of these competencies.

For a more detailed outlining of our stack please visit here

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

✨ Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £83,000 - £94,000 per annum in the UK. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Location

This role will need to be based in one of the following countries; UK, Spain, Ireland or France. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the offices in London or Berlin, you’re most welcome of course! Birdie cannot currently support any visa applications, we do require permanent right to work in the role’s location

🌱 L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

🏡 Work From Home budget

Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you’ll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.

🌴 Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays).

🎄 Christmas leave

Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

🎂 Birthday leave

An extra day off for your birthday (you can take this whenever you want during the year).

🫶🏻 Birdie giving days

Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about social impact this means you can take 2 paid days each year for volunteering to a cause you’re passionate about.

🌍 Sabbaticals

We recognise that sometimes a longer break is desired, that’s why as of 2024 we have introduced a sabbatical policy. When you have been with us for 4 years you can take up to 3 months off.

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance

Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs.

☀️ Gym and wellbeing discounts

Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months.

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

🐣 Fertility Leave

Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges which may arise during fertility treatments, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

👵🏻 Employer pension contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies).

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats.

❓Why Birdie?

Join Birdie and seize this unique opportunity to shape the future of a transformative tech startup, to create positive social change, and develop yourself very fast in a flexible, close-knit & transparent organisation.

We have a grand vision to transform how society deals with ageing,we dream big and speed is of the essence.

We’re all entrepreneurs at Birdie.

We’re highly collaborative and iterative. Everything we do is transparent to anyone, be it objectives and key results, compensation packages and equity or strategic conversations.

Growing with trust is key. Everyone sets their own development plan and gets support to learn fast, from training to books or coaches. We live by radical candour: we give honest feedback and care deeply & personally about each other.

Join us now to improve the lives of millions!

⚖️ Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all Birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.