Software Engineer

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the role

Youll be working directly with our Senior SWE CTO and collaborating closely with our product growth and delivery teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where youll be building the systems that power how we actually operate.

Youll work across:

Our Django platform - customer journeys project tracking internal tools and the integrations that tie everything together
Energy calculations - our Home Digital Twin model runs calculations and heat loss modelling that inform retrofit designs
Internal tooling - making our project coordinators surveyors and installers more effective

What youll be doing

Building features end-to-end. Youll take a problem like project coordinators are spending hours on admin that could be automated and ship a solution. From database schema to UI.

Improving what exists. We have real software serving real customers. Some of it needs performance work refactoring or rethinking. Youll make pragmatic calls about when to fix and when to rebuild.

Working with messy real-world data. Retrofit involves energy calculations supplier pricing grant eligibility rules customer documents. Youll build systems that handle this complexity without breaking.

Collaborating with non-engineers. Our delivery team knows where the friction is. Youll talk to project coordinators surveyors and customers to understand what actually needs building.

Shipping and iterating. Some weeks youll push a quick fix to unblock the team. Other weeks youll be deep in a larger feature. Youll know when to be scrappy and when to slow down.

Qualifications :

A bit about you

Youve got solid experience. Youve built web applications professionally. Youve shipped things that real people use.

You know Python and Django (or can pick it up fast). Our backend is Django PostgreSQL.

Youre comfortable across the stack. Youre comfortable building a functional UI. We use HTMX and for some interactivity on the frontend.

You can work with ambiguity. Requirements arent always perfectly defined. Youll figure out what needs to happen and make sensible tradeoffs.

You care about the problem not just the code. You want to understand why something needs building. Youd rather solve the right problem imperfectly than the wrong problem elegantly.

You communicate well. You share progress flag blockers and work well with people who arent engineers.

You work like its 2026. You use AI tools where they help. Youre pragmatic about new technologies.

This role isnt for you if...

You want a pure greenfield environment. We have existing systems that need extending and improving. However there is room for plenty of new features.

You need detailed specs for everything. Were a small team. Youll often need to figure out the right approach yourself.

You only want to write code. This role involves talking to the delivery team understanding operational problems and sometimes doing things that arent strictly engineering.

You prefer large established teams. Were small and moving fast. Youll have a lot of ownership and not much hierarchy.

Additional Information :

Whats in it for you

Real impact. Help thousands of UK homeowners decarbonise their homes and cut their energy bills.

Autonomy and ownership. Youll have real decision-making power and room to grow as we scale.

Work with a brilliant team. Small ambitious and committed to building something that matters.

Benefits:

70-80k base salary equity
Remote-first (offices in London & Birmingham)
Flexible working hours
High-spec laptop
500 personal development budget
Growth training through the SYSTM course
FSB Healthcare (24/7 private GP access physio discounted gym membership)

Our mission

We believe Furbnow can transform the home retrofit industry and improve millions of homes across the UK. Our mission is to make every home warm affordable to run and low-carbon. Theres no competitor taking our approach and we want to be the go-to place for homeowners to upgrade their homes.

The process

We keep it straightforward:

Apply - Send us your portfolio and CV
Initial chat - 30 mins to see if theres mutual fit
Technical Working session - Come meet the team (remote or in-person) and work through a real problem together
Offer - Well make a decision ASAP

We promise to be responsive and give you real feedback at every stage.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Full-time

About the roleYoull be working directly with our Senior SWE CTO and collaborating closely with our product growth and delivery teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where youll be building the systems that power how we actually operate.Youll work across:Our Django platform - customer journeys p...