We are expanding our engineering team to boost our development capacity and take our product to the next level. As a Fullstack Engineer, you’ll play a hands-on role in building high-quality features across our platform, contributing to technical decisions, and helping us deliver a product that’s efficient, robust, and a delight for thousands of customers to use.
You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and more senior engineers to understand problems deeply, translate them into well-crafted solutions, and grow your ability to shape how we build for long-term success.
- Department
- Tech – Engineering
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Zinc – London
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
Building powerful features 🚀 – Design and deliver high-impact solutions that are clean, scalable, and built to last, delighting thousands of customers.
Contributing to the big picture 🎯 – Collaborate with Product, Design, and the wider engineering team to understand what we’re building and why, and bring thoughtful input to technical decisions.
Keeping things running smoothly 🛠️ – Help maintain, optimise, and secure our systems so they perform at their best, even at scale.
Problem-solving like a pro 🧠 – Tackle tricky technical challenges with support from the team, building your ability to turn complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions.
Growing and sharing 🤝 – Learn from senior engineers around you, share what you know, and contribute to a team culture of continuous improvement.
Staying ahead of the game 📚 – Keep up with new tools, trends, and best practices, and bring fresh ideas to how we evolve our stack and processes.
Owning your work end-to-end 🎨 – Take responsibility for features from initial idea to production, making sure every detail delivers value to users.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Hard skills ⚡
Full Stack Development 💻 – Solid working experience with Node.js (Express/Nest.js) and modern frontend frameworks like Vue/Nuxt or React/Next, building reliable experiences end-to-end.
TypeScript & JavaScript 📜 – Good hands-on experience delivering production applications using modern JS/TS practices, with a desire to deepen your expertise.
System Design 🏗️ – An understanding of how to build scalable, maintainable systems, and an eagerness to develop stronger architectural instincts over time.
Database & Cloud ☁️ – Working familiarity with MongoDB and AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway), comfortable building and shipping cloud-native features.
DevOps & CI/CD 🚀 – Some experience with deployment pipelines and automated processes, with appetite to grow your infrastructure skills.
Testing & Quality Assurance 🧪 – Comfortable writing tests using tools like Jest and Cypress to ship with confidence.
Soft skills ✨
Highly Collaborative 🤝 – Works well in cross-functional teams alongside engineers, designers, and product, and actively contributes to a positive team dynamic.
Product-Minded 🚀 – Thinks beyond the code, staying curious about how features improve the user experience and serve broader business goals.
Clear Communicator 🗣️ – Can explain technical thinking clearly, ask good questions, and engage constructively with feedback.
Kind & Supportive ❤️ – Contributes to a respectful, inclusive team culture and brings a collaborative, humble attitude to their work.
Benefits
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About Zinc
Who we are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission
We’re a culture first company, by this we don’t just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc’s culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc’s culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company’s future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Applied
Stage 2:
Talent Discovery Call ✨
Stage 3:
Technical Test
Stage 4:
Google Meets Interview 💻
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