Salary: £55,000 – £75,000 depending on experience.
Location: London
If you are a Christian with excellent technical skills and experience in digital product delivery, this is an exciting opportunity to work for an organisation embarking on their next stage of delivery growth. You will be one of the first roles hired into an in-house tech team, contributing to its growth and development as it expands.
You’ll work in a team of Christians who see their work as a full-time ministry opportunity to serve God first, and to love and serve one another and their multinational clients. In your role as a marketplace minister, you’ll participate in Biblical training and receive support as you apply these principles in your everyday work as a Full Stack Developer, using your skills and talents to God’s glory.
N.B. Worship.Works is an organisation that places Christian professionals into roles that draw on their talents, while serving God first. This role is with a client of Worship.Works.
To succeed in this role:
You will have a track record of success in technical development roles, being comfortable in multidisciplinary teams, working closely with design, product and research colleagues to deliver high-quality, user-centric products.
Experience playing a leading role in the development of products that achieve goals of an organisation by meeting the needs of customers is essential.
It is important to bring a product mindset, understanding the needs of users and how technical solutions can be best implemented to meet those needs and achieve key business outcomes.
The existing services within the company are built on Ruby on Rails, with MongoDB, MariaDB, ElasticSearch and Redis. Going forward we are considering building out a new mobile product built with Flutter.
While it is not essential that you have experience in Rails or Flutter, an energy and enthusiasm for learning new languages and ways of working is essential so that you can pick up these skills as this role will be primarily responsible for the existing services. Experience with test driven development and devops would also be advantageous.
You will ideally bring expertise in user-centric, iterative product development, operating within an agile environment, delivering software solutions that are secure, compliant and delivered in the most ethical approach.
You will report to the Head of Technology and alongside a UX Researcher initially. As this is one of the first roles hired into this team, an ability to work independently is required. In the coming year we are planning to grow the team, so you’ll also bring a desire to mentor, teach, and train junior members of the team.
Faith:
Your faith is a genuine occupational requirement for this role. You should have a personal commitment to the Christian faith and be actively involved in a church congregation. Your role will include being part of a vibrant faith community, and we expect you to be committed to growing deeper in your faith and your faith-experience.
Our client prays together every day and shares prayer and worship moments throughout the working week. Around the workplace, you’ll often come across staff praying over their work and talking about their faith.
Under the 2010 Equality Act, schedule 9, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this role for you to be a practicing Christian.
The Organisation:
Our client is a growing specialist business consultancy providing strategic insights and operating as a faith-based enterprise.
They are about to embark on the next phase of their product and technology evolution, with an ambitious roadmap of future products, leveraging data-led insight to deliver value for a multi-national suite of clients. Our client believes in the central importance of putting Christian faith into every aspect of their work and this will be critical to the work of the in-house product team that will be built out over the coming months.
Benefits:
You will receive training to serve God through your work and will learn to co-create solutions inspired by your spiritual life. Your day-to-day work will include daily prayer and application of Biblical principles for professional life. This will include:
- Training modules providing a Biblical foundation for your work-based ministry.
- A marketplace ministry peer mentoring programme in which colleagues support each other in their ministry growth.
You will be encouraged to pursue growth in all aspects of your work, and to be proactive about your own study of the Word, drawing on resources and listening to the Holy Spirit to develop your work-based ministry.
Additional benefits include:
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing to 30 for long service.
- Up to 5 days additional paid time off for volunteering activities.
- Opportunity to suggest causes to support through the employer’s generous charitable giving programme.
- A programme of team celebrations including New Year breakfast, Summer and Christmas parties, quarterly off-site days and other seasonal social activities.
- A modern, creative office environment for the hybrid age, with areas for work, collaboration and relaxing, and with refreshments and snacks.
- Additional pension contributions after your first year of employment.
- Generous mobile phone allowance.
- Employee discounts and Employee Assistance Programme.
Working Arrangement:
You will work primarily from our client’s office in London, UK with occasional visits to our client’s other UK offices, customer sites or other locations. After the probation period, the postholder will be required to be in the office 3 days a week.
To apply now, please send your CV and a covering letter to careers@worship.works outlining your relevant experience and why you are passionate about this role. Be sure to tell us about your personal faith journey as well as your professional skills.