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Why Heka? 🚀

We’re a rapidly growing company with a strong purpose to do good. There’s plenty of room for everyone in the team to make a difference. If you’re looking for a challenge and plenty of autonomy within a tight-knit team of wellness warriors, you’ve come to the right place!

Why we exist

Our mission 💚

We're paving the way in employee benefits with Heka - the first wellbeing assistant, for employees. She has a big brain and even bigger heart, and her mission is to help employees feel (and perform) their best.

Why we do, what we do

Our values 🙌

Our core values are to be empathetic, polished, and to always have integrity internally and externally. We understand that everyone’s wellbeing needs are unique and Heka tailors support to them.

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Wellness Wednesdays

Every other Wednesday we finish at 4.45pm, so you can make that spin class, cook dinner from scratch - whatever wellness means to you.

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£50 Wellbeing budget

Every employee receives a monthly £50 wellbeing budget - your health is your most important investment.

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Flexible Working

We're a remote-first company with employees based all over the UK. We want work to be a part of your life, not your entire life.

Open positions 🤩

Senior Software Engineer

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Full-time
London / Remote

About Heka:

For businesses, investing in employee wellbeing is crucial. It leads to increased resilience, better engagement, reduced sickness absence and higher performance and productivity.

The problem is wellbeing benefits often cater for just one area of health and wellbeing, like gym memberships or mindfulness apps. These are then used by only a small percentage of teams meaning that not every employee's needs are met. 

That’s where Heka comes in.

Heka offers over 5000 wellbeing experiences, products and services across 100s of wellbeing categories on one platform. With this, companies can provide one inclusive benefit for diverse teams, and the immediate health and wellbeing needs of employees are met.

150+ companies currently use Heka including the likes of THIS, Ocean Bottle, Oxford Biomedica and Medallia.

About the role:

We're looking for a talented full-stack senior engineer to join our growing product team. As a successful and rapidly growing start-up, we are building a closely bonded, highly capable team tasked with taking the current system to the next level.

This role is for an all-round engineer who's happy to work on all aspects of our software and the infrastructure and processes we use to deliver it to our users. You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, work on greenfield projects and be a key decision-maker in the technical direction of the company’s product.

The responsibilities of this role include:

  • Designing, developing and deploying Heka’s product
  • Ensuring the system is secure, resilient, scalable and performant
  • Evaluating and implementing new technologies that improve the system
  • Mentoring other engineers in the team
  • Maintaining system and team documentation
  • Providing technical support to the wider company

The ideal candidate will:

  • Be technically strong, but modest
  • Have a thirst for learning and developing their skills
  • Enjoy problem solving and do so pragmatically
  • Take responsibility and pride over their work
  • Be professional, empathetic and honest
  • Be able to make evidence-based decisions
  • Be able to communicate clearly with the whole company
  • Balance trade-offs when designing systems
  • Understand customer value and be able to balance that with technical ambition
  • Be proactive in managing time and workload
  • Discover, design, and deliver work at a fast pace, when required
  • Be commercially aware

The candidate will have advanced commercial experience of the following:

  • JavaScript (React & Node.js)
  • HTML & CSS
  • SQL
  • Git
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Automated testing
  • Architectural design
  • Building SaaS web applications
  • Agile/Scrum working
  • Mentoring and knowledge sharing

And ideally have experience of (or is willing to learn!) the following:

  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • Neo4j (graph databases)
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS and/or GCP
  • Terraform (infrastructure as code)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Leading  teams or projects
  • Working in a startup/scaleup environment 

Benefits:

  • Share options
  • Funding to attend training and conferences
  • 10% personal development time
  • ‘Wellbeing Wednesdays’ - alternating early finishes & socials every Wednesday
  • £1200 annual wellbeing allowance (£600 in probation)
  • Enhanced parental leave 
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Extra day of annual leave for each year of service and your birthday off
  • Access to a London based office on Fridays
  • Regular team get togethers and socials

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

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