Front-end Engineer Part Time

Waybridge

Waybridge is a well-funded startup that is using design, technology and data science to create efficiencies in the multi-trillion dollar industry of trading and logistics of physical commodities. We are currently a team of 11 women and 12 men, including technology experts who have revolutionised the ad-tech industry, commodity experts with years of experience in various commodities, and award winning designers and product managers. We are based in New York, London, and remote. Having signed our first customer and working on our V1 launch, we are looking to hire more software engineers to join our team in London.

We officially started in September 2019, raising a Series A of $10mm. We signed our first customer in July 2020 and are in the process of launching the first version of our product.

Our team is currently 11 women and 12 men with a variety of backgrounds, skills and seniorities – from graduates upwards. We have tech experts who have built systems that handle millions of transactions per second, commodity experts with 60 years combined experience in the industry, and award-winning design and product experts who have worked on complex software products for large enterprises.

Our founding team has experience starting businesses in both the commodity and technology spaces, and has successfully built companies from the ground up to reach 1000+ employees.

About the role

In short, we are looking for individuals who are excited to tackle the problems we described above, either in a frontend-only or fullstack capacity.

• You will be working with our CTO and the rest of the team, including product and design, in a highly collaborative and transparent environment, to build our first products. This means helping us build and improve (and sometimes design!) our core web app, working with a modern frontend toolset based around Typescript, React and Relay.
• You should be excited to deliver high-quality experiences for our customers, to help evolve our engineering processes, and to improve our codebase. Given where we are now, you will be able to start building and contributing from day one, and influence the architecture for our systems. As the team grows, you will have more junior developers that you can nurture and develop too.
• We will try our best to make sure you feel at home at Waybridge. Our co-founders genuinely believe that a diverse team will set us up for success and as such we are working hard to attract diverse candidates who can add value right from the start, but also grow and thrive further in Waybridge.
• We are currently a team of 23 from many different nationalities and races, including 11 women. A lot of the team have children, and we want Waybridge to be super family friendly. We will help you handle the challenges that come with having a family. You can talk to us to find out more, and we can put you in touch with relevant team-members if you’d like to speak to someone directly.

Notes: You don’t even need to care that much about commodities to find this space fascinating. Our team includes a former commodities quant who will quickly get you up to speed. We have regular “learn and teach” presentations where we teach each other about various topics, and we share lots of information on our internal wiki.

What are you doing?

• Think about how easy it is for you to purchase something online; you can see various options, filter by different features, and then once ordered, track where your delivery is until it arrives at your doorstep.
• It might surprise you that such systems do not yet exist for manufacturers or suppliers who are looking to buy or sell raw material, such as aluminium, copper or cocoa. Thanks to many challenges involved, particularly due to the size of the market, such purchases are currently extremely manual, using a combination of emails, phone calls, text messages to track purchases, sales and deliveries.
• We are bringing market intelligence and pricing tools to small and big manufacturers and producers of physical commodities.
• By providing financing, price discovery and other facilities we are creating a more transparent marketplace and enabling companies to trade with new counterparties.
• We are improving logistics and tracking of commodities around the world. This means optimised delivery routes, with benefits such as a reduction in carbon footprint.

Technology stack:

• Storybook, Zeplin and Sketch.
• React, Relay, Typescript and Less.
• Cypress for end-to-end testing.
• Python and GraphQL.
• AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• Automated CI/CD with staging and production environments.

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• We are handling real material that is used by almost all of us on a daily basis. We think that’s cool.
• We are helping our customers optimise their workflow, improve their carbon footprint, and add real value.
• We are a start-up, with a start-up culture. We will move and build things quickly, and every team member will have a real impact on where we go and what we build.
• But we are well-funded, so we pay market rates.
• You get to work with our founding team who have a proven track record.
• You will be one of the first team members in London, so you can help set the team culture in London.
• You’ll get to work on a relatively small codebase using a modern tech stack.

Right now our interviews are completely remote. We try to be flexible with our schedule for calls, and to get you through the process quickly.

• An initial call to meet one of our engineers in London. We’ll tell you a bit about us, and learn about your background and what you’re looking to do. We may ask some short technical questions.
• There may be a second interview with another team member to chat more about Waybridge and you.
• A take-home technical exercise or one or two technical interviews. We think most candidates will be able to show off their skills in a take-home exercice, but if you are extremely busy, you may prefer shorter technical interviews.
• A follow-up call to discuss your code submission, with one or two engineers.
• Finally, you will meet a few other team members from other offices to give both sides opportunity to meet future team mates! These will mostly be general chats, but they could easily get into fun technical discussions if you meet an engineer.
• As part of this final round, you will also meet some of our co-founders so you can learn more about their background and the business.

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