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We're looking for an amazing Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer who can help us to design and build our world-class product for modern charities.At Beacon we’re a growing technology startup building the best nonprofit-focused CRM in the world. We passionately believe in the power of technology to make a difference. Chris and David, both software engineers, founded Beacon in 2017 to build a new kind of charity CRM using the latest technology and design principles. Now hundreds of innovative charities around the world trust Beacon to run their core technology infrastructure. Animal welfare, human rights, disaster relief, cancer support - all powered by Beacon. You can see a quick demo of our product,here. We have doing good at the core of our mission, but we're also profitable, privately owned, and our goals are for long term sustainable growth - not making a quick buck for venture capitalists. ResponsibilitiesYour focus will be building and maintaining the entire Beacon product, from infrastructure to interface. You'll work with our existing engineering team to contribute to developing and maintaining a sophisticated and modern web application. You will: Design and implement improvements to the core of the Beacon product Write clean, maintainable code to deliver on the Beacon product roadmap Identify and fix bugs in the existing system Take end-to-end ownership of features, from implementing the interface using our design system to building the backend endpoints that you need Work closely with other engineers to come up with creative and innovative solutions to tricky technical problems RequirementsIn your role as a Software Engineer, you'll need at least a year of direct practical experience with the following technologies: React Node.js SQL databases And there are bonus points for these: Material UI Writing tests with Jest and Playwright TypeScript GraphQL Storybook AWS Lambda Amazon RDS Google BigQuery SQS (or other queueing architecture. We love queues!) Our customers are all charities - you'll get to build your career whilst having a genuinely positive impact on the world We'll give you 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays 6 week fully paid sabbatical every 5 years Taking time off is important. And we really mean it: We'll pay you a £60 bonus for every day of holiday you take Banded salary system so that everyone is paid the same for doing the same job, and compensation growth within the organisation is clear. Guaranteed pay rise to adjust for inflation every 12 months Beacon is climate positive (beyond carbon neutral), so your employment won't hurt the planet.Learn more A proper pension - we'll match 150% of your pension contributions (up to 10%) Private health insurance with routine dental & optical cover Modern parental leave policy (12 weeks at full pay, and it's the same for everyone, regardless of gender or circumstances) Cycle to work scheme Working togetherAs a team we prefer to be together in our office (4-6 New Inn Broadway, London, EC2A 3PR) and we'd want you to join us - so this is not a remote role. We offer flexible working hours and while your usual place of work will be with us in the office, you can work home when you need to. If you don’t live in London but would be happy to relocate, we can pay up to £4,000 (tax free) to help with your relocation costs. We passionately believe in doing our part to address the tech sector's diversity problemWe believe that in building diversity we build strength. We encourage everyone with the required skills to apply, we consider building a diverse and representative team to be critical to our success, and we actively pursue building a more diverse team. We have a banded salary system to ensure that nobody is paid differently for the same role. Salaries across the organisation, including executive pay, are entirely transparent. Our parental leave policy provides for 12 weeks of full pay, and can be taken by any parent, regardless of their new parenting circumstances. We're delighted to be certified byBloody Good Periodas a‘Bloody Good Employer’ , and we're working towards becoming a certifiedBCorp.#J-18808-Ljbffr