Full Stack Engineer

About us

Loomery is a digital product agency, for tech-powered businesses. We are a team of strategic makers partnering with you to build, learn and innovate at pace, to create next generation digital products.

Loomery teams are making and learning with Aviva, JLR and climate-tech start-up Sightline Climate, and are delivering quality products at pace while elevating digital capability for MOO.com, Blue Light Card and the University of Exeter.

Founders Brett and Tim are strategy and product leaders with over two decades of experience delivering technology for many of the most ambitious organisations in the world including Apple, The Met Office, Visa, NatWest and BP.

We're increasingly building at the cutting edge of the third era of personal computing, where AI-enabled smarts combine with Spatial interfaces. Check out our AI sandbox, our insights from spending a day at Apple with Vision Pro and our Spatial experiments creating an immersive environment for reading.

We are passionate about creating a diverse company that’s a stimulating and supportive place to work - and one that leaves the planet better than we found it. We offer learning and development opportunities for everyone who joins us and we will fully support your growth and career development.

The role

We’re entering an exciting phase with some new client projects on the horizon and are looking for a mid or senior level Full Stack Engineer, to join our engineering team. Rather than specialise in a single technology, our philosophy has always been to think through the customer experience and business needs first, then figure out the technical solution from there. As a result, we’ve deployed a range of platforms and approaches (across web and mobile) - and will continue to.

In this role you will be:

• Initially working for a new Loomery client on their React Native mobile app (across iPhone and Android), providing support, maintenance and periodic additions of new features
• Developing software for Loomery clients, working as part of a cross functional delivery team
• Undertaking experiments, research and development into new technology areas (especially AI and spatial computing) to advance those fields
• Developing new capabilities for Loomery and show our clients what's possible
• Consulting and advising clients on the best technical solutions.
• Playing a part in shaping our engineering practice as we continue to scale

About you

We are looking for someone who is:

• A skilled technologist who has demonstrable experience shipping high quality products to market.
• Experienced in developing mobile apps with React Native (essential).
• Ideally experienced in Flutter or Native app development (iOS/ Android).
• Able to programme in a range of languages, primarily across the Javascript tech stack.
• Naturally inquisitive with an interest in emergent technologies and a determination to apply them in novel and innovative ways.
• Collaborative in their approach and can work with non-engineers to deliver against customer and client objectives.
• An excellent communicator who is comfortable talking to clients and non-technical people
• Comfortable working as part of a cross-functional team using Agile practices.

Our vision

We have an ambitious 5-year vision for the company. By 2027 we want to:

• Be known for being an amazing place to learn and grow. We want to develop a new generation of tech leaders, who make a better, more equitable and sustainable digital world.
• Have pioneered a new category of strategic tech partner. We think there’s a big opportunity for a company that sits between tech partners and consultancies. We describe this as being ‘more strategic than tech partners, more technical than any consultancy’.
• Be shipping the definitional experiences of the next generation of computing (AR, VR, digital layers). This means making an investment in getting smart on new platforms and technologies. We’ve started here - but there’s a lot more to do.

The technologies we work with

Rather than specialise in a single technology, our philosophy has always been to think through the customer experience and business needs first, then figure out the technical solution from there. As a result, we’ve deployed a range of platforms and approaches (across web and mobile) - and will continue to. This means we’re looking for someone happy to get stuck in across languages, technologies and up and down the stack (of course, if you have a specialism, that’s absolutely fine!).

The big gigs we’re pitching for and winning are mobile (both native mobile work and cross-platform mobile technologies like Flutter/React Native) and web (typically React, Typescript and node.js).

We’re being intentional about moving into newer technology spaces. That starts with a series of investments in the metaverse and AR/VR, but we need someone who can be an opinionated leader as we look to build technical capability and experiment with the possibilities.

The company we’re building

Loomery is a four year old company, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it'll be like to work here at this early stage. You will be a critical part of shaping it. However, here are a few things that are important to us.

Principles on the ways we work

Here are a few draft principles that have guided us in our work so far:

• Make each other successful - By paying attention to others we set aside ego and work as a team.
• Passionate about quality - We share high standards, and take pride in the detail.
• Cross-functional and curious - We are open-minded, we ask questions, we listen, we cross-over specialisms and we learn.
• Own and act - We value those who move things forward, taking responsibility to solve problems for and with others.
• Care for our clients - We build empathy for our clients and deliver an outstanding service, not just great products.
• Value over process - Our goal is to deliver value fast and we adopt just enough process to make that happen.

Flexibility in where we work

We know we value time together face-to-face, in our experience it’s invaluable for building lasting teams. We work hybrid, partly from home and in our Bloomsbury office 2-3 days per week. We’ll buy you everything you need to work from home successfully, whether that’s a new router, a lava lamp, or a standing desk.

We know we value time together face-to-face, in our experience it’s invaluable for building lasting teams. We work hybrid, partly from home and in our Bloomsbury office 2-3 days per week. We’ll buy you everything you need to work from home successfully, whether that’s a new router, a lava lamp, or a standing desk.

Flexibility in how we work

Everyone has different needs and demands on their time. We want Loomery to be inclusive for those with caring responsibilities or health issues. As parents of young children we know how important it is to make time for growing families too. Sometimes work shouldn’t come first. We’re very open to conversations about flexible working hours and novel working arrangements.

Leaving the planet better than we found it

Everyone needs to do more to address the climate crisis, and even though our impact is still relatively small, taking action starts at home. As a first step we offset all the carbon we use. We’re also working through the process of certifying as a ‘pending B-corp’.

Tinkering & learning

In our industry it pays to spend time learning about the latest technology or tool. We also love it when people we work with develop new skills and bring new ideas to the team. We provide a £250 technology and learning grant for purchases of your choice, as long as it’s aligned with company growth and in budget, we’ll fund it.

How to apply:

If all of this sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you. Please send a short CV and covering email introducing yourself and telling us why you’re right for this role.

We expect the interview process to be an intro call over Google Meet and two rounds of video or in person interviews.

Loomery is focussed on building an inclusive working environment and a diverse team, we welcome applications from people from underrepresented backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the criteria set out.

Loomery is committed to fairness and equal opportunity in our hiring process. Please let us know if you have specific requirements that should reasonably be factored into the application process, or if you’d like us to clarify any aspects of the role.