Software Engineer (Python/JS, remote GMT)

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our team responsible for supporting our products’ growth and their development teams. It has a broad remit ranging from maintaining our websites, checkouts and licensing backends to analytics pipelines, monitoring systems, and more. If you have a knack for building practical solutions to problems across a variety of contexts, then this might be the role for you.

We’re building on the success of Camo (reincubate.com/camo), which helps you easily get great video for meeting, streaming, or recording, and is available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, with more platforms in the pipeline. Camo was nominated for an Apple Design Award in 2023 and featured in Microsoft’s Build ‘24 and '23 keynotes. The Verge called it “a solution to all your webcam problems” and users have rated it 4.85/5 on the App Store.

Reincubate’s customers include teams at Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon, the world’s top universities, VIPs around the world, and plenty of people who just want to look better online. The company’s work has been recognised by HM King Charles III, and users rate Reincubate as one of the UK’s most-loved software companies (reincubate.com/about).

This role is remote, and fits working in UK hours: that’s GMT. The role is probably right for you if you’re curious and energised by building highly-polished products that just work, and would enjoy working at a values-led, remote, indie business. Here’s Aidan the CEO & founder talking about the role.

You will:

• Work on projects and connect with teammates across many different areas of the business
• Build and maintain delightful experiences for our users as they interact with our products
• Get the opportunity to explore and build expertise in a range of disciplines and technologies
• Maintain reliable production sites and services for our teams and users
• Help further modernise our tooling, architecture and development practices

We will:

• Help you get set up and contribute to a comfortable and productive working environment
• Give you autonomy in your work – we trust you to solve hard problems well
• Help you settle into your role, manage your responsibilities, and grow as a member of the team
• Foster a space for you to share and explore your thoughts and ideas with confidence
• Provide excellent benefits: 25 days’ paid vacation, flexible hours, remote work, share options, healthcare, matched 401(k), and equipment, home-office & professional development allowances

You might suit this role if you:

• Are a pragmatic learner, able to apply new knowledge quickly to improve our users’ experience or to unblock your teammates
• Can devise iterative improvements to existing projects with minimal refactoring or the need for risky migrations
• Enjoy working as part of a focused team of individual contributors, and can take ownership of projects from initial idea to release
• Relate to our values: creating delight, “it just works”, sustainability, and integrity
• Want to create experiences that feel "just right"

You might not suit this role if you:

• Aren’t a completer/finisher, or prefer highly predictable environments
• Want to go deep in a particular area rather than going broad in many
• Want to pursue venture-backed startups or value growth at any cost
• Don’t relate to the team’s values

We're looking for:

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS, with bonus points for experience with Vue.js specifically
• Experience building sites and services with an awareness of maintainable design principles
• Familiarity with at least one common programming language (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.). Bonus points for experience with Python and the Django web framework in particular.
• Awareness of deployment best-practices and familiarity with hosting and cloud platforms (GCP, Cloudflare, etc.)
• A proven ability and desire to learn, develop, share and implement your ideas

You’ll maximize your chances when applying if you:

• Include a CV that gives us a great idea of who you are and what you’re about
• Take a time to look at who we are, and what we’re looking for
• Share examples of you succeeding with the sort of things we’re looking for in your cover letter
• We recommend not using AI to write your application; this tends to result in similar-looking applications that make it harder for us to learn about you (we don't use AI in screening applicants, a real person reads every application)

Find out more about Reincubate at https://reincubate.com/about/.