About Bark
Bark is an online services marketplace connecting customers with professionals across over 1,000 categories. Operating in nine countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, we're transforming how people find trusted service providers for everything from home improvement to professional services.
Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to match customers with the right professionals quickly and efficiently. With a global team of over 220 people, we're currently undergoing an exciting transformation: migrating from a lead generation model to a full marketplace platform with subscription based pricing.
As a profitable, PE backed scale up (EMK Capital), Bark offers the best of both worlds: the agility and innovation of a fast moving business combined with financial stability and resources for growth. We recently launched our new marketplace model in Australia (Q4 2025) and are preparing for rollout to the UK and US markets in 2026. You'll have genuine ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape our commercial strategy during a pivotal transformation phase with the chance to make your own contribution to our journey.
About the Role
We are looking for a mid level Full-Stack Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll become a core part of our small, highly agile team which is responsible for transforming our product. AB testing and test-measure-learn approaches are close to our heart and you will work equally across figuring out solutions to user problems and how we will scale our technical systems.
You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of working fast to develop prototypes and iterating to find the optimal result. You’ll work across our tech stack to solve a variety of challenges from our back-end processes, to our APIs and to our front-end product. We are in the middle of transforming and modernising our technology stack so you will have the opportunity and be encouraged to contribute to new technology decisions, helping to shape our technology strategy, adapting our architecture as we grow.
Responsibilities
Build elegant and performant APIs and Backend solutions
Translation of UX/UI designs into production quality front-end experiences, using our proposed Front End stack (React, Typescript)
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Convert business requirements into high-quality, production-ready solutions while collaborating with other engineers to develop a fully functional and working product
Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase
Design and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a second
Collaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A/B and MVP testing and development specifications
Required Skills and Experience
3+ years experience working with Python.
3+ years of experience working with React.
Ideally, 50/50 front-end and back-end experience (though we’re open to candidates with a 70/30 split if the fit is right)
Experience building scalable, high-performing web applications
Production MySQL experience; strong SQL skills
Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting APIs to be used by other developers both internally and externally
Strong organisational skills
Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Desired skills & experience
Experience working with Python Frameworks, particularly with FastAPI
Experience working with TypeScript
Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS
Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar such as RabbitMQ), SNS (or Kafka), and how they are used
Experience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, DynamoDB or similar
Interview Process
Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30 mins)
2nd Stage - Technical Task (90 mins)
3rd Stage - Values interview (30 mins)
Diversity Statement
At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.
Here at Bark, we are on a mission to revolutionise and become the market leader, go to online marketplace for professional services.
Bark is the UK’s largest & fastest growing services marketplace, helping people find the right professional for their project in over 1,000 unique categories. The business is already in scale up mode, profitable with a proven model but still has the feel and agility of a startup with a team of over 200 people and most of its work still to do.
We use cutting-edge technology and an extraordinarily talented team of people to solve an age-old problem; how to find the best available professional for any job, every time no matter what the need.
We are a dynamic, exciting, forward thinking business – but with the financial security of a PE backed, revenue generating established company – so you get all the benefits of working in a scale-up environment (ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation) without any of the worry. We placed sixth on the The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work for 2024. With a presence in eleven countries globally with imminent plans for further expansion you can join us at a genuinely exciting time where a true impact can be made.
