Job Description
Fullstack Engineer
Department: Tech - Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Zinc - London
We are expanding our engineering team to boost our development capacity and take our product to the next level. As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll play a hands-on role in building high-quality features across our platform, contributing to technical decisions, and helping us deliver a product that's efficient, robust, and a delight for thousands of customers to use.
You'll work closely with Product, Design, and more senior engineers to understand problems deeply, translate them into well-crafted solutions, and grow your ability to shape how we build for long-term success.
Key Responsibilities
Building powerful features 🚀 – Design and deliver high-impact solutions that are clean, scalable, and built to last, delighting thousands of customers.
Contributing to the big picture 🎯 – Collaborate with Product, Design, and the wider engineering team to understand what we're building and why, and bring thoughtful input to technical decisions.
Keeping things running smoothly 🛠️ – Help maintain, optimise, and secure our systems so they perform at their best, even at scale.
Problem-solving like a pro 🧠 – Tackle tricky technical challenges with support from the team, building your ability to turn complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions.
Growing and sharing 🤝 – Learn from senior engineers around you, share what you know, and contribute to a team culture of continuous improvement.
Staying ahead of the game 📚 – Keep up with new tools, trends, and best practices, and bring fresh ideas to how we evolve our stack and processes.
Owning your work end-to-end 🎨 – Take responsibility for features from initial idea to production, making sure every detail delivers value to users.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Hard skills ⚡
Full Stack Development 💻 – Solid working experience with Node.js (Express/Nest.js) and modern frontend frameworks like Vue/Nuxt or React/Next, building reliable experiences end-to-end.
TypeScript & JavaScript 📜 – Good hands-on experience delivering production applications using modern JS/TS practices, with a desire to deepen your expertise.
System Design 🏗️ – An understanding of how to build scalable, maintainable systems, and an eagerness to develop stronger architectural instincts over time.
Database & Cloud ☁️ – Working familiarity with MongoDB and AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway), comfortable building and shipping cloud-native features.
DevOps & CI/CD 🚀 – Some experience with deployment pipelines and automated processes, with appetite to grow your infrastructure skills.
Testing & Quality Assurance 🧪 – Comfortable writing tests using tools like Jest and Cypress to ship with confidence.
Soft skills ✨
Highly Collaborative 🤝 – Works well in cross-functional teams alongside engineers, designers, and product, and actively contributes to a positive team dynamic.
Product-Minded 🚀 – Thinks beyond the code, staying curious about how features improve the user experience and serve broader business goals.
Clear Communicator 🗣️ – Can explain technical thinking clearly, ask good questions, and engage constructively with feedback.
Kind & Supportive ❤️ – Contributes to a respectful, inclusive team culture and brings a collaborative, humble attitude to their work.
Benefits
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance ( ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
