Turtl is a London-based B2B SaaS company. Founded in 2015, we have grown to 400+ customers and 100+ team members. Initially bootstrapped and later angel-funded, we completed a successful Series A round with Octopus Ventures in late 2021.

Our mission is to put performance at the heart of every online document. We do this by providing a market-leading content platform based on the psychology of how we read, backed by intuitive authoring tools, market-leading analytics and patented personalization capabilities. The documents our customers produce on our platform cover a wide range of use cases – from thought leadership to proposals and from case studies to partner comms – and have been independently proven to engage readers for up to 10x longer than the available alternatives, such as PDF.

While our history lies in serving exclusively blue-chip businesses on enterprise licenses, our future – and an accelerated growth trajectory – lies in a combination of a product-led go to market and a series of exciting, industry-leading product innovations in the field of AI and automation. These innovations have the potential to permanently change the way businesses look at content production and performance.

Turtl is squarely focused on this next exciting stage of growth, which brings with it many new opportunities and challenges. It’s a fast-paced work environment, so we’re looking for talented people who want to continuously learn and actively embrace challenges. You’ll find Turtl a straightforward and open place to work, where colleagues can be relied on to help.

If you’re ready to take on a new challenge, then it’s a great time to be joining the team!

THE ROLE

Reporting into the Head of Software you will be responsible for creating, maintaining, testing, and debugging the entire backend as well as designing components for our tool. You will work on exciting new projects, with an opportunity to build these from scratch, and on improving existing projects and processes. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

You will join a team of experienced backend developers and will develop features and improvements to the Turtl product in a secure, well-tests and performant way.

You can clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural problems and propose iterative solutions.

You will solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

You will help influence overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.

You will have experience with performance optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

You will help define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code reviews.

You will provide mentorship for junior engineers in the team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities.

You can confidently own moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.

You will collaborate with wider teams and stakeholders within our Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

WHO YOU ARE

You are an established Backend Engineer or Senior Backend Engineer who has experience ideally in the tech space.

You have experience in coaching, driving and inspiring teams more at a junior level.

You are experienced in at least one of the following programming languages; JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP or C#.

You have experience or up for learning and working with NodeJS, Mongo, Elasticsearch, AWS, CircleCI, Cypress.

You are fairly comfortable with Linux and JavaScript.

You have worked with version control systems like Git, written automated tests and have done code reviews.

You have excellent communication skills, and proficiency in English is desirable.

The role is based in Slovenia, so you will need to be able to travel into the office occasionally which is based in (Ljubljana) however most of the role will be home-based.

WHAT WE OFFER

A super competitive base salary between €55,000 - €65,000 (depending on experience)

The potential for Stock Options.

A great opportunity to grow and develop new skills within a supportive and collaborative environment.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

Turtl is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to growing a diverse workforce that represents all people regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or neurodiversity. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will make any recruitment or interview adjustments to ensure a comfortable candidate experience.