Senior Front-End Software Engineer

apartmentZappi placeCape Town calendar_month 
Zappi is a fast growing consumer insights platform helping Fortune 500 companies deeply understand their customers. Our platform allows customers to pre-test new ideas and creative content before launch. From new products, media campaigns, names, logos, packaging or flavours, Zappi allows companies to kill bad ideas and improve on good ones.
Customers can analyse their insights across their organisation and see their performance relative to the rest of their market. We bring together top expertise in data science and visualisation, UX and engineering to create a platform that allows non-expert users to make high-stakes decisions easily and confidently.

Our working culture is incredibly important to us and our team – our retention is industry-leading.

The Research Building team

The Research Building team works to reduce any unnecessary friction between the Customer and their Insights. The team is responsible for the entire Configuration Journey experienced by our Customers, from landing on their Home Page to deciding to test their ideas in various Markets and Products through the ideas lifecycle.

In order to achieve their goals, each team works in close partnership with our design and research functions and leans on learnings from customer’s experiences. Each team consists of Javascript and Ruby developers working with React talking to Rails API services via REST.

You will work closely with other engineering teams, building systems which can describe, manage and execute audiences in a scalable and meaningful way. You will work in an engineering function that practises continuous integration and deploys to production multiple times per day on autoscaling Kubernetes cluster running on AWS.

Who we’re hiring
  • You will need to be able to demonstrate characteristics of an experienced engineer (this is generally more than 4 years experience)
  • You are able to demonstrate how you add value to a team as a senior engineer, and what you expect from a high performing team
  • You have transferable technical experience. We don’t require deep expertise in our tech stack if you can demonstrate your ability to learn new technologies
  • You have the right to work in the location advertised

What do the first 30,60,90 days look like?

In your first 30 days you’ll take part in our Zappi 101 engineering onboarding where you’ll get familiar with our business and engineering domains, you’ll meet your buddy, team and manager, and work towards your first code change. Over the next 60 days you’ll have established a pattern of impactful contributions to our codebases, execute a collaborative code/system design, begin influencing the direction of the team and contributing to team ceremonies (e.g. planning).

Benefits
  • Salary range R850,000-R900,000 per annum. Salaries are benchmarked annually.
  • Unlimited holidays – we want well rested and motivated teams so encourage people to take plenty of time off. We don’t cap your allowance, but do set a minimum of at least 20 days per year plus national holidays
  • Three company-paid mental health day's of rest every year (these are pre-scheduled, so the entire company can take the same days off regularly to reset)
  • Thoughtfully designed offices to support both individual work and collaboration without interrupting others
  • Private medical healthcare cover
  • Medical Aid
  • Group risk, life & disability contributions
  • Wellbeing benefits such as free yoga and access to trained therapists / counsellors
  • Paid 24h secure parking in Cape Town
  • Free coffee, lunches and in-office snacks

Why join us?

We’ve been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk’s Media for our engaging and inclusive workplace culture. We’re committed to both people and the planet.

Our belief in inclusion means we’re building an organisation of diverse individuals and helping brands eliminate cultural presumptions in their research. Read our Diversity Manifesto here.

We are a values and behaviours driven business and believe that Trust, Truth, Ownership, Ambition and Humility describe Zappi employees on our best day. This is how we strive to show up for our customers, for each other and for our communities.

Earning B Corp certification assures us we’re on the right track and have structures in place to become the business we want to be.

Our commitment to minimise our impact on the environment means being honest with ourselves and transparent with you—about everything from carbon emissions to tree-planting initiatives. We achieved our goal of becoming Net Zero in 2021!

Zappi Company Culture Highlights
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work-Life Balance 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO for Women 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Happiness 2022
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2023
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEOs for Diversity 2023
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Engineering Teams 2023
  • Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2023
  • Winner of Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK 2022 & 2023
  • Recognised by Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023
  • Recognised as Best Marketing Insights Platform in the MarTech Breakthrough Awards

Equal Opportunity

Zappi is an equal opportunity employer; our diversity is a major strength. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce fosters innovation, creativity, and success. Our hiring decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, and abilities, ensuring fairness and equity throughout our recruitment process. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

Join our team and contribute to an inclusive environment where everyone's unique perspectives and talents are valued and respected.

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