Tech Lead - £70k + equity

Pinwheel’s mission is to help people preserve the planet. We want everyone to have the chance to live a modern lifestyle without hurting Earth in the process. Initially we’re doing that by offering innovative solutions to help individuals and businesses protect the natural world and offset their carbon emissions.

We’re privately funded and run by an experienced team (Smart Energy GB, ITV, McCann Worldgroup, HM Government). We’re currently building our launch product and have an exciting roadmap. Our team is being built from scratch and the possibilities for innovation are endless.

We’re looking for talented and entrepreneurial people who are engaged with our mission. You’ll enjoy significant autonomy and the chance to work collaboratively with a highly experienced senior team. In return we’ll expect you to be highly proactive and take on significant personal responsibility.

At Pinwheel we’re getting started on our product development journey. As a member of our Product team you’ll play a key role in developing and deploying beautiful, intuitive products that help people live more sustainable lives. All of Pinwheel’s product suite is digital, so you’ll sit at the heart of our business.

We don’t have huge significant repositories of existing code to maintain or migrate so you’ll get to focus on building functionality. We have an exciting product roadmap to develop and deploy, but it’s not fixed in stone. At Pinwheel you’ll get to have real responsibility for how our product and tech stack evolves.

Working closely with our CTO and CEO, you’ll lead on development in every area of our stack, from prototyping through to deployment and maintenance. You’ll bring designs to life and add value through the process. You’ll focus on delivering outstanding user experiences through intuitive interfaces. You’ll write secure and highly readable code that requires minimal documentation. You’ll proactively overcome challenges, squash bugs and hit shipping deadlines.

Our stack:

• React / Django / Python / Gunicorn-Nginx

• All of our code is developed and shipped in containers

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of front-end development, ideally with React or related JS-based frameworks

• Experience of back-end development, in particular working with Django and Django Rest Framework

• Ability to develop and deploy code in containers (we use Docker)

• The basics (e.g. git version control, test-writing, hatred of hacky/unreadable code)

• A self-starting mindset, able to work in a small, highly-focused development team

• Ability to work collaboratively with other developers, designers and senior product owners

  to turn ideas into deployable code

• A collaborative and communicative working style

• Ambition to drive forward a new business

• Passion for Pinwheel’s mission

Additional Information

• The opportunity to shape the direction of a startup company and have real impact on product direction

• Experience of working in close collaboration with a highly experienced executive team

• As an early employee, significant opportunity for rapid personal growth

• (Post COVID) Central London office location shared with other exciting startups

• Competitive salary c£70k

• Equity participation

• 28 days holiday per annum + 2 volunteering days

• High end company laptop (Mac or equivalent) + software licences