Jan 26, 2024 - Zoe is hiring a remote Back-end Software Engineer - Insights & Advice. 📍Location: Europe, UK.

We are redefining how people approach their health

ZOE is combining scientific research at a scale never before imagined and cutting-edge AI to improve the health of millions.

Created by the world’s top scientists, our personalised nutrition program is reimagining a fundamental human need – eating well for your own body. Currently available in the US and the UK, ZOE is already helping > 100k ZOE members to adopt healthier habits and live better. Our work and expertise in biology, engineering, data science, and nutrition science have led to multiple breakthrough papers in leading scientific journals such as Nature Medicine, Science, The Lancet, and more.

To learn more, head to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Audible to listen to our Science & Nutrition Podcast (with 3 million listens!)

A remote-first, high-growth startup, we are backed by founders, investors, and entrepreneurs who have built multi-billion dollar technology companies. We are always looking for innovative thinkers and builders to join our team on a thrilling mission to tackle epic health problems. Together, we can improve human health and touch millions of lives.

We value inclusivity, transparency, ownership, open-mindedness and diversity. We are passionate about delivering great results and learning in the open. We want our teams to have the freedom to make long-term, high-impact decisions, and the well-being of our teammates and the people around us is a top priority.

Check out what life is like for our tech team on ZOE Tech.

About the team

Insights & Advice team is responsible of defining short-term milestones for members to progress on their health goals and measuring progress and achievement over time.

Recently, the team has been computing metrics such as fiber intake, ultra processed foods consumption from meal logging data. They help member understands how they are doing and what foods contribute to some metrics to improve.

The team is composed of mobile, full-stack and backend engineers, a data scientist, a product manager and a product designer.

About the role

As a backend engineer in the team, you will be responsible for building the services responsive for computing metrics and advices from complex logged meal data, computing trends over these metrics, capturing customers targets and how they are doing against them.

You'll be

Solving complex backend problems while working closely with product managers and UX designers to provide the best in class customer experience

Designing systems ranging from data collection, content delivery, insights computation, recommendation, or modelling complex domains like the relationship between foods.

Writing code across our microservices and data pipelines.

Shipping in production. Preferably daily or more!

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to your peers.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy new features.

Mentoring and supporting engineers in other teams.

Learning, learning, learning! There is always a new challenge to tackle.

We think you will be great if you

Are an engineer with experience as a backend engineer and some experience working with Data Scientists on projects.

Good knowledge of one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or Kotlin).

Write clean maintainable code across microservices and data pipelines.

Are a great communicator that can be highly collaborative with other engineers.

Have experience working in a fast-paced environment. You lead by example, contribute to the roadmap, get your hands dirty and get things done.

Our hiring process consists of the following stages:

➡️ Talent Acquisition Screening: Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial phone interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner. This conversation will help us assess your qualifications, experience, and your fit for our team. Duration 45min

➡️ Hiring Manager Screening: Selected candidates will be moved forward in the process and meet an Engineering Manager. This conversation will focus on diving deeper in regards to your qualifications, experience, and your fit for ZOE. Duration 30min

➡️ Technical Interviews: You will be asked to complete two technical interviews, which evaluate your coding and system design experience. Duration 60min/each

➡️ Behavioural Interviews: You will be asked to complete two behavioural interviews, which evaluate your present and past experience from a behavioural standpoint. Duration 45min/each

⏰ Expected Timeline: The entire hiring process typically takes around 3-4 weeks from the Talent Acquisition Interview to the job offer. We understand the importance of your time and aim to provide timely feedback and updates at each stage.

These are the ideal skills, attributes, and experience we’re looking for in this role. Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes, especially on the skills and experience front, we’re happy to upskill for the right candidate.

Life as a ZOEntist – what you can expect from us:

As well as industry-benchmarked compensation and all the hardware and software you need, we offer a thoughtfully-curated list of benefits. We expect this list to evolve as we continue supporting our team members’ long-term personal and professional growth, and their wellbeing.

Remote-first: Work flexibly – from home, our London office, or anywhere within the EU

Stock options: So you can share in our growth

Paid time off: 28 days paid leave (25 holiday days, plus 2 company-wide reset days, and 1 “life event” day)

Enhanced Parental Leave: On top of the statutory offering

Flexible private healthcare and life assurance options

Pension contribution: Pay monthly or top up – your choice.

Health and wellbeing: Like our Employee Assistance Program and Cycle to Work Scheme

Social, WFH, and Growth (L&D) budgets. Plus, multiple opportunities to connect, grow, and socialise

We’re all about equal opportunities

We know that a successful team is made up of diverse people, able to be their authentic selves. To continue growing our team in the best way, we believe that equal opportunities matter, so we encourage candidates from any underrepresented backgrounds to apply for this role. You can view our Equal Opportunities statement in full here.

A closer look at ZOE

Think you’ve heard our name somewhere before? We were the team behind the COVID Symptom Study, which has since become the ZOE Health Study (ZHS). We use the power of community science to conduct large-scale research from the comfort of contributors’ own homes. Our collective work and expertise in biology, engineering, and data/nutrition science have led to multiple breakthrough papers in leading scientific journals such as Nature Medicine, Science, The Lancet, and more.

Seen ZOE in the media recently? Catch our co-founder Professor Tim Spector (one of the world’s most cited scientists) and our Chief Scientist Dr Sarah Berry on this BBC Panorama, and listen to CEO Jonathan Wolf unpack the latest in science and nutrition on our ZOE podcast.

Oh, and if you’re wondering why ZOE? It translates to “Life” in Greek, which we’re helping ZOE members enjoy to the fullest.

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