Profitable | Tier 1 VC-Backed | 0.5–2 % equity | £70-90k Salary | UK visa sponsor | Build core product used by 500+ independent food businesses

https://getjelly.notion.site/backend-engineer

The Role

At Jelly, we build the operating system for restaurants of the future. Help automate the legacy industry and reduce manual labour to zero. This isn’t a role for someone looking to coast. You’ll have true ownership, visibility, and influence across the company. Expect shipping and demoing to real users every sprint.

You’ll Work With

JJ (Founder) • Robert & Dol (Engineers) • Abbie (Customer Success) • Saif (Growth) • Raul (Part-time Designer)

You might be a fit if

* You turn big, messy problems into a working demo in weeks.

* You leave both code and process cleaner than you found them.

* Shipping fast and building well both matter.

* You see the next role being your big chance to really succeed.

* You look out for new tools and share what works.

What You’ll Get

* Real ownership from day one

* £70–90k salary

* Significant equity (0.5–2%) and long‑term career upside

* A culture that values engineers, with protected ‘Engineer-Owned-Sprint’ for tech-debt

* Biweekly 1-on-1 with Founder; visibility and influence across the company.

* 33 days holiday, London office (Shoreditch), Visa sponsorship available

* Fortnightly team dinners at customer restaurants

Minimum requirements:

* 4+ years of TypeScript and NodeJS

* 4+ years experience shipping and maintaining production-level software

* Proficiency in software design patterns

* Strong experience with containerised and serverless infrastructure

* Expertise in relational databases

Bonus preferences:

* GraphQL: built and consumed APIs at scale

* Latest tooling: we use AI and computer vision to speed up internal data workflows

* Ownership mindset: scope, build, test, and ship without hand-holding

* Agile instincts: comfortable iterating fast and making smart tradeoffs

* Testing culture: experience writing effective, maintainable automated tests

Interview process

Stage 1: Intro call with Founder (15min)

Stage 2: Technical interview (2 hours) on a real problem at Jelly

Stage 3: Conversation with team + Founder (2hrs)

Apply here or DM me (JJ) on WhatsApp +447855553652 with a real data or system tradeoff you’ve made under pressure and what you’d do differently now.