Job Description:

Heygo is a livestreaming platform with the simple goal of making exploring the world available to anyone at any time.

Heygo empowers the world’s best guides to share their favorite places—from Paris to Patagonia—with a global audience. With hundreds of immersive, interactive tours streaming every week from 90 countries and counting, Heygoers around the world live chat with their guides and each other, snapping postcards of their journey and exploring the world together, in real time, from anywhere they happen to be. Pretty magical stuff.

With every tour free to join and backed by tips, Heygo is a new, rapidly growing global community built around seamless virtual travel that’s as real as it gets.

Check out heygo.com and see where it takes you…

We’re looking for innovators, problem solvers, and explorers hungry for something beyond business as usual. Like us, you’re a high performer who’s an expert in your craft constantly challenging the status quo with a deep curiosity about the world. You prize inclusivity as fundamental to the world you wish to see and share and would like to be part of a culture that empowers you to show up as your true, genuine self. You know that success hinges on commitment, that our differences make us stronger, and that the finish line is always sweeter when the whole team crosses it together.

Do you love helping people use technology to form deeper understandings and connections with other people? Do you have the skills and experience we’re looking for to better serve our users in achieving that? If so, we’d love to meet you.

The role:

As the platform expands we are looking to build out our development team to make our streaming experience as immersive as possible, build social features to allow people to make meaningful connections with others and allow users to track their journey of exploration around the world.

We’re looking for full stack developers of varying skill levels and years of experience.

Day-to-day you’ll:

• Collaborate with the wider company to understand the context behind what you’re building • Build social tools and streaming interface • Write high quality, well tested code • Work as part of a high performing development team that shares best practices • Be responsible to taking a feature from a set of designs all the way through to being deployed to our users

What we’re looking for

• Exceptional developer of full stack web applications • Experience building highly scalable applications • Good appreciation for UI/UX design • Experience writing clean and well-tested code • Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment • Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals • Diligent and organised so that you are able to manage rapidly changing circumstances and priorities • Passion for building connections and curious to learn more about the world

Our tech stack

• TypeScript • React / React Native • Node.js • Express • PostgreSQL / TypeORM • Redis • REST APIs • Docker

What is on offer?

• Unlimited holidays/PTO and a company-wide break at EOY • Competitive salary • A fully remote role with flexible working hours • 2 annual team off-sites where you’ll get to travel to see the team • Comprehensive healthcare and retirement benefit packages (location dependant) • £800 annual L&D and wellness allowance, plus access to team seminars and learning platforms • 24/7 mental health support via Spill • Employee stock options at a growing start-up • £1000 personal productivity allowance to help pay for co-working or at-home office supplies • Regular socials with the team, both virtually and at in-person hubs • Progressive and comprehensive parental leave policy • A work laptop of your choice, supplied through Hofy • A global, highly capable, no ego (and really fun) team working together to bring more joy, knowledge and connection to the world

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