KEY RESPONSIVITIES

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack applications and features focused on optimizing user growth and conversion.
• Utilize your strong proficiency in a programming language (ideally TypeScript) and the React framework to build engaging and effective user experiences.
• Leverage your solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, to extract, analyze, and interpret data.
• Write complex SQL queries to answer critical product and marketing questions, informing growth strategies and measuring experiment success.
• Bring a growth mindset and an experimental approach to engineering, actively proposing and implementing A/B tests and other optimization strategies.
• Maintain a keen eye for user experience (UX) and conversion rate optimization (CRO), ensuring a seamless and effective user journey.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing, and design, to identify and prioritize growth opportunities.
• Contribute to a service-oriented architecture, building scalable and maintainable solutions.

REQUIREMENTS

• You possess a strong proficiency in a programming language, ideally TypeScript.
• Significant experience building full-stack applications using React.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and are confident in writing complex SQL queries.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and their impact on conversion.
• Academic degree from a top-tier university.
• You reason logically. You get a kick out of architecting systems and building processes.
• Passionate about working in the start-up world for a sustainable and mission-driven brand.

As the first Growth Engineer at Ffern, you will play a pivotal role in driving user acquisition, engagement, and conversion through innovative engineering solutions at one of the fastest growing startups in the UK. Projects at Ffern are unique - you’ll be working with in-house film producers and designers, as well as a highly technical growth team (everyone in Growth knows SQL and Python). You will be embedded within our growth team, but work in close collaboration with the broader engineering team and a dotted reporting line to the CTO, to ensure alignment on technical strategy and best practices.