About the job
Hey 👋
Thanks for considering Bearable!
Bearable, one of the leading comprehensive health trackers across both platforms, is looking for a senior developer to join its founding team to make health optimisation accessible for everyone and to help people both manage and prevent chronic diseases.
We help people to essentially A/B test what lifestyle habits help their health and wellbeing! Enable a person to make informed choices based on their own data to improve their own health, repeat many times across many people, and it adds up to a global-scale result.
We are a fully remote, purpose-driven team on a mission to help a billion people to feel more in control of their health and wellbeing through self-care.
We are VC and angel backed (including most recently, the former CTO of Coinbase) and now well suited for growth and for making Bearable the most enjoyable, effortless and insightful health condition tracker in the world.
If this sounds like something you want to be a part of, reach out, we'd love to meet you!
🤔 What you will be doing
- Build the features on our exciting 15-month roadmap
- Collaborate with the product team to help define app features and give estimates;
- Ensure quality and performance of application;
- Run unit tests of code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability;
- Work on bug fixing and on improving the application performance;
- Maintain the application code base;
- Design and implement application updates;
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency;
✅ What you should bring along
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 2+ years of experience developing on React Native
- Have led a team of developers before
- Have published several apps on the App Store
- Proficient in code versioning tools like Git
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging
- Experience with continuous integration
- Ability to take initiative and employ good judgment
- Outstanding communication and writing skills
🔥 Would be nice to have
- Experience with Google Firebase/Firestore
- Worked on health tech apps is a huge plus
- Interest in data science, Machine learning and AI
- Passion for health optimization and quantified-self/biohacking
- Comfortable working in an environment of rapid growth, constant change, and lots of unknowns
❤️ Benefits
- This is a fully remote, full-time position. Employees must work within 1 hour of UK time.
- Sustainable and healthy working matters to us.
- A minimum of 30 days holiday, including UK bank holidays
- Pension (if you’re in the UK)
- If you're outside of the UK, this position will be permanent and full-time in spirit, but a contract role on paper. The reason for this is that employment outside of the UK comes with significant challenges for a small company like ours.
🛠 Tools we use
- Segment, Mixpanel, Google Analytics
- Our landing page and blog run on Wordpress, using the Elementor Pro plugin
- Firebase/Firestore
- Jira
- Zendesk
- Figma
- Notion
- AWS
Disclaimer for recruiters and agencies:
We are not interested in working with recruiters or outsourcing to development agencies.