Frontend React Developer

Feast It is changing the global events industry for the better. We have built a curated platform to connect the best suppliers to the most exciting events, from dinner parties for 20 right up to the UK’s largest festivals. We believe that every event deserves incredible food, drink, and entertainment and we are building the technology to unlock it for everyone.

We’ve built an incredible community of the nation’s finest event suppliers, from independent videographers, florists, and mixologists, to the finest chefs and restaurants in the world, such as Nobu, Bao, and Honest Burgers. And yes, the job involves free food and tickets to events...

Only three years into our journey, we’ve worked with everyone, from Amazon, Nike, and London Pride, to Tom Cruise, Star Wars, and Taylor Swift, and have seen nothing but rapid growth. Recently we came #7 in the Startups 100 awards, were finalists in the Natwest Entrepreneur Awards, and have been named in the top 15 in Tempo’s 50 Best Places to Work. We’ve been lucky to attract funding from some of the UK’s finest investors, including Tim Score (Chairman of British Land), Guy Berryman (member of Coldplay), and Richard Pennycook (Former Hut Group Chairman and Co-op CEO) who has joined us as Chair. Our team is expanding, our office keeps growing, and we’ve fed millions of people at events over the last few years!

If you’re an ambitious, status-quo challenging self-starter looking to change an industry, you’ll fit right in and we want to hear from you.

About the role

We are on a mission to build the technology to power the best events in the world, connecting the most incredible suppliers with the most unique events. It is vital that our platform has the features to make us integral to both our customers and suppliers, and this role has a huge part to play in this.

We are a small in-house development team consisting of two front-end developers, two back-end developers and a tech lead. We work in a T-shaped SCRUM team with a product lead and dedicated UX/UI designer. We are looking for a front end developer to help us build the next phase of our frontend. You will help turn user feedback into the latest features that will allow our customers to get the most out of the platform.

Our backend is built with NodeJS, Express and PostgreSQL, hosted on AWS. Our frontend applications are currently written in ReactJS with a mix of a classic react app and a NextJS server side rendered app. We also use Redux, Emotion, and Storybook.

As a front end developer, you will be a central part of our core project. Every day is different, but you can expect to be involved in validating designs, building reusable elements into our design library and then putting it all together to make beautiful and functional frontends.

After our recent relaunch as an events business, we are now focusing on improving our quoting experience, enhancing our user to supplier dashboard, and improving testing and accessibility.

In the next 6 months, we are looking to take huge steps towards modernising the oldest parts of our site. This will include rebuilding the stack with React, GraphQL, Typescript, Nexus and Prisma.

To have an impact

We believe that tech can be taught, so we would love to hear from anybody who has a passion for our industry and is excited by the above. Our ideal candidate will have knowledge in some of the following:

• Modern Javascript
• React or a similar component based framework like Vue or Angular
• State management using libraries like Redux, MobX or React Context
• Design tools e.g. Sketch, Figma, InVision
• Analytic tools e.g. Google Analytics, Segment.io, Mixpanel

We are passionate about changing the tech industry for the better, so if you are from an underrepresented background then we would particularly love to hear from you.

Employment details

Our offices are in London. They are open and Covid-safe for anybody who wishes to work from them, but only if you are comfortable to do so. When some more normality returns we will ask for people to join us for at least 1 day a month.

We also invest in training, with the opportunities to attend conferences or spend some time doing personal learning, with the hope that you can then bring those skills into your daily life and use them to help the entire team improve.

• Remote working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Strong maternity policy
• Pension contribution
• Invites and tickets to food and event industry events
• Significant discounts at London’s best restaurants and bars
• You’ll be part of a fun and passionate team who genuinely enjoy each other’s company
• If/when a bit of normality resumes, we have a dog-friendly office with 100+ incredible lunch options nearby, a plant-filled utopia of working space and regular team socials, and events ranging from company dinner parties to Secret Cinema events.

Team Values

• Our customers care, so do we. We’re involved in the most important days of people’s lives. We appreciate that and make sure we do everything possible to make their event as perfect as possible.
• Always aim for excellence. We care about quality. We won’t get to where we want to go without working smart as well as hard. We take pride in our work and never deliver work we think is anything less than brilliant.
• Push ourselves to always learn and improve. We know that neither ourselves nor the way we work is perfect. We constantly critique to find ways to improve ourselves as professionals and increase our impact on the business.
• We are team players. No person is an island and we're either going to sink or swim together as a team. Everyone is expected to be a team player and no one gets left behind. Notice someone struggling? Help them out and expect the same in return.
• Don’t be a dick. We like working with good people. Don’t be a dick to the planet, don’t be a dick to our customers, don’t be a dick to our suppliers, and sure as hell don’t be a dick to each other.
• Party while you work. Startups are hard work - celebrate the wins, laugh and enjoy the ride. We’re building something huge, let’s have fun while we do it.