Frontend Engineer

The UK planning system spits out so. many. words. Very few startups work with this sort of volume of textual and geospatial information simultaneously. We’re building a system to make sense of it all, but that means we need to build a lot of tooling from scratch.

As a frontend engineer on a team without a designer, you will own the user interface and experience of our products. We all pitch in full-stack, and you won't be pidgeonholed. But you will be the one who makes sure that the user experience is consistent and delightful.

A few things we will ask you to do in your first few months:

• Design an interface for a map rectification tool
• Tidy up our design system
• Improve the performance of our map interface
• Build a document search tool––for tens of millions of documents at a time
• Help interview our users and refine our Appraise product based on their feedback

You might be a good fit if:

• You embody our cultural values
• You like writing prose as well as code
• You are interested in modern approaches to NLP, such as using RAG and LLMs to help pull structured output from large corpuses of text
• You are comfortable with jumping into the backend from time to time
• You are familiar with the various conceptual primitives of geospatial data
• You are okay with ambiguity, and take a proactive approach to resolving uncertainties

Technology stack

We have a fairly typical tech stack:

• Our frontend is written in TypeScript with React
• We use Go and Postgres for as much stuff in the backend as we can
• We fall back to Python for scraping and machine learning, because of the ecosystem.

We provision our infrastructure using Terraform and try to avoid getting locked in to any particular cloud service (in part because we have many, many startup credits to use before we commit!)

We will expect you to be familiar with these technologies, or to have a provable track record of picking up new technologies quickly.

Pay and benefits

The salary for this role is between £80k and £100k per year, plus generous equity. We’re planning on raising again in the next 12-18 months. As an early employee, you’ll have a lot of influence in helping us reach the targets we need to hit. If we get there, we plan on increasing everybody’s salaries by at least 50%.

All of our roles come with the following benefits:

• Lunch if you are in the office
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Proper budget for equipment
• And the standard stuff like pensions, a generous equity plan, Cycle to Work scheme, decent maternity and paternity, etc.