Senior Software Engineer

What is Slice?

Slice is the leading technology and marketing platform made exclusively for local pizzerias, making it super easy to order delicious, authentic local pizza anywhere, anytime. We serve the $44 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business, while helping them compete with Big Pizza. Can you imagine what a small mom and pop pizza shop could achieve with the resources of Domino’s?

Slice was born in 2011 and has quietly bootstrapped its way to building a network of more than 12,000 pizzerias nationwide. Ilir Sela, our founder and CEO, started the company as a passion project to help his friends and family in the pizza business, but he quickly saw a massive opportunity to champion these small businesses by bringing their bites to the masses. Ilir has since built an amazing team of operators, marketers, technologists, and investors — all dedicated to making it easier for people to enjoy their favourite local pizza.

We are on the hunt for Senior engineers to join us at Slice! You will develop internal and customer facing web applications using the latest technologies and design patterns available, while also helping us grow our product offering by making great engineering decisions, mentoring some new blood and more!

Essential Criteria:

• Passion for technology
• 5+ years of experience building commercial software in a modern programming language, we really like Ruby, Python and Go
• Thorough understanding of and experience working with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• A focus on application observability, with experience monitoring application performance and errors in production.
• Comfortable in Linux/Unix-like environments for development and production.
• History of using solid software development practices and tools such as automated testing, source control, and agile process.
• Fluent verbal and written English skills
• Positive approach to work, and treat others well.
• Ability and experience in mentoring others
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills
• Strong communication skills
• Able to clearly express opinions on product design, while respecting the thoughts and opinions of their peers.
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers and non-engineering stakeholders alike

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience building front-end applications in JavaScript using modern frameworks such as React.
• An understanding of building consumer-facing web software, including shopping experiences and e-commerce.
• Love for pizza

Interested?

We operate like a startup, so being self-motivated, curious, and flexible is a good start. You prefer to come up with your own solutions to problems but are not afraid to ask for help. You enjoy making suggestions for how to improve our product and business, no matter the department. You’re the kind of person who roots for the underdog. And lastly, this job will probably be a lot easier if you have a soulmate-level love for authentic pizza.

Why Slice?

Join a community of best-in-class team who combine creativity, curious minds and a commitment to excellence with the desire and commitment to grow and build on the Engineering culture and skill bases and community here in NI.

Benefits:

• Market Leading Salary
• Strong Pension contribution
• Personal Health, Dental and Eye Care
• Income and Death insurance
• Cycle Scheme of up to £2500
• £750 per annum self-learning budget
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Market leading Maternity and Paternity Schemes
• Flexible working / Hours and WFH
• Generous time off allowance and policies
• Free Friday Pizza and Monday Breakfast
• Fully stocked kitchen/snacks
• Annual conference attendance and training/development budget
• Substantial gym membership discount
• Discounts for local Pizzerias

A CV gives us a good idea of your background, we are interested in your latest work and projects. Education is great to see, but it's not overly important to us. If you have them, be sure to include links to any personal projects, blogs, contributions, or anything you want to add to your application.

My Pizza Slice Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we value Diversity. We appreciate the differences in style and perspective as we believe it adds value to the organization, and we aim to recruit like-minded employees. We are also proud members of the Diversity Mark NI initiative as a Bronze Member.