Full Stack Engineer

Lightdash

Location
United Kingdom
Job Type
full-time
Salary
Β£80K – Β£130K
Posted
May 28, 2025

Job Description

We're looking for a full-stack engineer to join our small and growing team.

We value small and high performing teams and are looking for a full-time software engineer to join alongside the current core team. The responsibilities will go beyond just the technical stack, and you'll be expected to contribute to the company strategy and will have a lot of influence over the product and company culture going forward.

 

Some things we're looking for:

  • You have experience or interest in building interactive products that teams love: you're excited about building the most user-friendly products for teams to take their raw data and turn it into insights.

  • You appreciate good design (UI/UX) and are passionate about building products that people love to use

  • You're a fantastic communicator, especially in a remote team and are happy to continuously challenge existing ideas

  • You have experience or an interest in open source projects

  • You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture

 

What the job involves:

  • Build and own features from start to finish: plan, build, test, deploy, iterate

  • Work in a small high performing team with a lot of collaboration and getting feedback directly from our users!

  • Interacting with our users in the community (through Slack, Twitter or Github) and reviewing their issues and using the feedback to prioritise our work

  • Having an ownership mindset: being comfortable with both responsibility and accountability

  • You’re comfortable working in a new, small team that is rapidly growing – you’ll need to be comfortable when faced with a lot of ambiguity, both technically and organizationally!

  • You're a fantastic communicator, especially in a remote team and are happy to continuously challenge existing ideas

  • You feel confident making trade-off decisions between moving quickly and launching features versus optimizing for engineering excellence. You’re happy putting something out when it’s “80% done.”

Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for a role if they don’t have experience in 100% of the requirements outlined in a job description. Please know that even if you don’t have experience in all the areas above, but think you could do a great job and are excited about shaping company culture, finding great people and building great teams, we’d love to hear from you!

How we work at Lightdash

  • We build in public, by default. We’re an open source product, so having shared context is important so that people can contribute effectively to Lightdash. As a team, we also think that we make the best decisions when everyone has a lot of the same information. We don't oversell and under-deliver: we want the experience of using Lightdash to be as awesome as the experience we're selling.

  • We challenge problems, not people. We ask ourselves “why is this broken?” not “who is breaking this?”

  • We’re highly collaborative. We’re a group of people that are happy working independently, but love being part of a team. ****We not only work on problems as a team, but we also listen to the feedback from our community and our users. We invest in tools and processes that allow us to do this, even while fully remote.

  • We bias towards impact. We’d rather build something to 80% and get it in front of users so we can iterate on fast feedback than build something to 100% just to find out it’s not the right thing. We spend a lot of time thinking about how our work solves real user problems. We work on the highest impact problems even if they’re something a bit “out of your remit”.

Our tech stack:

While we don't expect you to have used all the components of our stack, it'd be great to know which parts of it you're familiar with:

  • Primary stack: Typescript, React, Node, SQL

  • Frameworks: express, react-hooks

  • Infrastructure: Docker, GCP

πŸ’œ We believe that to build a product that works for a diverse group of people, we need a diverse team. So, we strongly encourage candidates of all different perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and identities to apply. We’re committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability. And once you join us, we’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

🎯 Who is this job for?

This role suits a Full Stack Engineer with experience or interest in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and SQL, ideally familiar with express and react-hooks. Candidates should thrive in small, fast-growing teams, have strong communication skills for remote collaboration, and be passionate about building user-friendly, open-source products with an ownership mindset. Comfort with ambiguity, prioritizing impact over perfection, and engaging with the user community are essential.

πŸ’¬ Potential Interview Questions

  1. How do you approach building full-stack features from planning to deployment in a small, fast-growing team?
    Prioritize user needs, build MVPs quickly, iterate based on feedback, maintain code quality with tests, and collaborate closely with team members and users.

  2. What are your strategies for balancing rapid feature delivery with engineering excellence?
    Deliver “80% done” features to get user feedback early, refactor iteratively, automate testing and deployments, and communicate trade-offs transparently with stakeholders.

  3. How do you contribute to and maintain an open-source project culture?
    Write clear documentation, engage with community contributions, review pull requests respectfully, and foster transparency by sharing roadmaps and decisions publicly.

  4. What practices do you follow to build intuitive and user-friendly React applications?
    Use component-driven design, manage state effectively with hooks, ensure responsive design, collaborate with designers, and prioritize accessibility.

  5. How do you handle ambiguity and shifting priorities in a remote, startup environment?
    Stay adaptable, communicate frequently, embrace ownership, break down problems into manageable tasks, and use user feedback to guide prioritization.

  6. How do you engage with users and community to gather feedback and prioritize work?
    Monitor community channels like Slack and GitHub, actively participate in discussions, triage issues, and align development priorities with real user impact.

  7. Describe your experience with the primary tech stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, and SQL.
    Write type-safe, maintainable code with TypeScript, build responsive UIs with React hooks, develop REST APIs with Node.js/Express, and design efficient SQL schemas and queries.

  8. How do you implement infrastructure and deployment using Docker and Google Cloud Platform?
    Containerize applications with Docker, configure CI/CD pipelines, deploy scalable services on GCP, monitor performance, and handle secrets and environment configurations securely.

  9. How do you foster a collaborative engineering culture in fully remote teams?
    Promote transparency, encourage knowledge sharing, organize regular syncs and async communication, and build psychological safety for open discussions and feedback.

  10. How do you evaluate trade-offs when deciding between building new features and improving existing ones?
    Assess user impact, technical debt risks, resource availability, business goals, and technical feasibility; prioritize tasks that deliver maximum value quickly while maintaining stability.

πŸ“‹ Job Summary

Lightdash is hiring a Full Stack Engineer in the UK to build user-friendly data insight products with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and SQL. Join a small, high-performing remote team where you'll own features end-to-end, engage directly with users, and influence product and company culture. Enjoy a collaborative environment that values open source, impact-driven work, and inclusive hiring, with a salary of £80K–£130K. Help shape the future of data experience in a fast-growing startup.

Required Skills

Node.js JavaScript

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