Design Lead
Location
London
Role
Rentify aspires to be the largest landlord in the world, without
owning any real estate; and a billion dollar business with a headcount
of under 100. The company is hiring a design lead to oversee the
creation of world class products and services for tenants and property
managers. Reporting to the CTO, the Design Lead will take day-to-day
responsibility for all aspects of interaction design and UX at Rentify,
splitting their time between producing prototypes and specs, and
empowering our talented engineering team with guides and best practice.
Background & Qualifications
The best evidence of your ability in this role, and the only
requirement, is a broad portfolio of thoughtful design across a
variety of products (e.g. web/mobile, consumer/enterprise), with
consideration for overall interaction design and not just static PSDs.
Day to day responsibilities of Design Lead
- Owning the thought behind how our products and services work and fit together. That means: not just sketching and Photoshopping, but thinking and feeling how things fit together,
- Designing from low-fi to hi-fi all relevant design assets for major features,
- Developing simple repeatable assets and guides for our engineers to use on non-major releases,
- Signing off on design for all shipping code.
The best candidates will quickly move past their strong portfolio of
design work and into the methodology used to iterate on it;
requirement-gathering and spec-writing; collaborating across teams
with multiple competing priorities.
Metrics & KPIs
- UAT: is the work we’re shipping solving our problems with few iterations?
- NPS and CSAT: do our customers rave about our awesome product?
The best candidates will demonstrate an ability to go beyond design
and into the fundamental metrics which drive the business.
Characteristics
- Comfortable balancing and prioritising multiple streams of work, from micro to macro,
- Meticulous attention to detail, and unembarrassed when correcting the same person or people multiple times for the same issue,
- Outstanding communicator and lateral thinker,
- Drives forward autonomously without requiring significant steer.
The best candidates will demonstrate a history of working
productively with colleagues from a range of disciplines, and
driving forward their agenda through.
Values
Results over effort
(No martyrs!)
Remember the human
(No assholes!)
Simplicity
(No empire builders!)
Have fun
(No grouches!)
What does Rentify do?
Rentify is becoming the biggest landlord in the world, without owning
any real estate. The company analyses residential developments using
machine learning, and provides developers with a financial hedge
against voids and arrears. In doing so, the company takes on the
leases of the units and rents and manages them to tenants. Tenants
benefit from a host of unique advantages by being Rentify tenants,
including building their credit rating with Experian as they pay
their rent, and having all bills and utilities in their household
split at source.
Applications
Send a covering letter and your portfolio to jobs@rentify.com
Unsolicited emails from recruiters will result in a blacklist for all vacancies at Rentify.
Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
Location
London
Role
Launched in 2012, Rentify provides revolutionary services and
technology to the UK’s landlords and tenants, working with more than
200,000 landlords and processing millions of pounds of fees, rent,
and deposits each year. The Company has grown rapidly and attracted
$10m USD of venture capital from top tier investors including
Balderton Capital.
Responsibilities
- Lead by example by writing good, well tested code to improve and implement new product features
- Design and development of new product features and enhancements
- Communicate with non-engineers to define requirements and deliverables
- Keep up-to-date with current technologies, and know when to apply them to projects
- Periodically teach your co-workers all the great stuff you learnt via tech talks, brown bags, blogs or open source
Requirements
- You've worked on at least 2 major Ruby on Rails projects (we'd love to see some code)
- You have a bachelor’s knowledge level of computer science via education or experience
- You know when to use PostgreSQL/MySQL vs mongoDB/Redis
- You understand the full stack (servers, Ruby on Rails, javascript/css/html)
- You feel uncomfortable with untested code
- You want to work in a startup
We'd also love it if...
- You’re experienced with a front-end javascript library or framework (e.g. React, Ember)
- You keep all your server configuration in code (we use Chef)
- You're comfortable around AWS
Perks
- Equity in Rentify
- Drinks available in the office 24/7 and regular team lunches
- Whatever tools you need to succeed like the latest hardware and educational material
- Be a part of a collaborative team that sits in an open environment (read: no politics) who previously worked at companies like Apple, Google and Samsung
Applications
Send a CV & your GitHub profile over to jobs@rentify.com
Unsolicited emails from recruiters will result in a blacklist for all vacancies at Rentify.
Data Scientist
Location
London
Location
Launched in 2012, Rentify provides revolutionary services and technology
to the UK’s landlords and tenants, working with more than 200,000
landlords and processing millions of pounds of fees, rent, and deposits
each year. The Company has grown rapidly and attracted $10m USD of
venture capital from top tier investors including Balderton Capital.
Having completed a number of data science projects with external partners,
Rentify is now looking to increase our in-house data science capability,
to help extend existing projects, and to lead and develop new projects,
helping Rentify to continue to improve our product offerings for both
landlords and tenants across the UK.
Responsibilities
-
Join our data science initiative to allow us to use our comprehensive
data sources to apply algorithmic learning across the organisation
- Extend our existing data models to incorporate new attributes
- Report on any improvements/regressions in the accuracy of our data models
-
Help to solve key business problems (e.g. how can we more accurately
value properties, how can we improve fraud discovery and how can we
improve the efficiency of our customer service team)
Requirements
-
Demonstrable track record at planning and building predictive models
which solve business problems
-
Strong statistical background (you're familiar with the practicalities
of data cleaning, feature engineering, descriptive analysis,
predictive modelling, model selection, hypothesis testing,
inference and results communication)
-
You understand the benefits and tradeoffs of using existing tools &
techniques, and are not afraid to tweak and improve them
-
Relevant recent experience creating data models from scratch using
Scientific Python and/or R for daily data science projects (at
minimum we expect experience with the usual Python tools
numpy/scipy/matplotlib/pandas/scikit-learn, and/or the 'Hadleyverse'
in R)
-
Periodically teach your co-workers all the great stuff you learnt
via tech talks, brown bags, blogs or open source
We'd also love it if...
- You’ve previously implemented machine learning/neural networks as a solution to a problem
- You’ve used graph databases (e.g. Neo4J) to build intelligence-led applications
- You’ve had experience implementing reporting tooling across a previous company
- You've presented at tech talks and data science conferences, and enjoy sharing your expertise
Perks
- Equity in Rentify
- Drinks available in the office 24/7 and regular team lunches
- Whatever tools you need to succeed like the latest hardware and educational material
- Be a part of a collaborative team that sits in an open environment (read: no politics) who previously worked at companies like Apple, Google and Samsung
Applications
Send a CV & your GitHub profile over to jobs@rentify.com
Unsolicited emails from recruiters will result in a blacklist for all vacancies at Rentify.
