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Butternut Box | B Corp

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501 - 1000 employees

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Venture Round on 2022-09

B2C • eCommerce • Pet Services

Butternut Box is a company that specializes in providing fresh, healthy dog food directly to customers' doors. They emphasize the use of carefully-selected, human-quality ingredients without fillers or artificial preservatives, focusing on the health and happiness of dogs. The company offers personalized meal plans based on individual dogs' needs, alongside flexible delivery options. Meals are cooked gently and vacuum-sealed to lock in nutrients and flavor. Butternut Box is committed to sustainability and quality, sourcing ingredients from trusted UK and Irish suppliers.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the squad to ensure high-quality, maintainable, modular, and reliable code is shipped across our acquisition stack. • Your day-to-day focus will be heavily centered on our backend infrastructure (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) to manage discount APIs, optimise session architectures, and support core functionality. We have a dedicated team of frontend experts who own our client-side technologies, though a willingness to collaborate across the stack is always welcome. • Partner closely with our Growth Marketing teams to maintain and optimise third-party tracking integrations. You will help manage server-side data collection, analytics event tracking, and cookie compliance, ensuring we eliminate single points of technical knowledge risk within the squad. • Learn about and champion best practices in code, systems architecture, and engineering processes while actively elevating those around you through pair programming, mentoring, and code reviews.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant commercial experience in a senior engineering role with deep, production-grade familiarity with Ruby on Rails (But we are open to other OOP languages i.e Python) and PostgreSQL. • Strong familiarity and hands-on experience implementing structured A/B testing methodologies to drive core business metrics. • The ability to work independently, communicate directly with downstream marketing and product stakeholders, and articulate technical/architectural decisions clearly without needing intermediaries. • An understanding of how backend engineering and system performance directly impact core business metrics, user tracking, and conversion rates. • Completely obsessed with dogs!

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service up to 5 years • 5 additional, paid 'paws' days off per year dedicated to your learning, development or personal wellbeing. Hit pause when you need it most • £500 personal learning & development budget to sharpen your skills • A significant discount on our Fresh food, to keep your own dogs as healthy as our customers • Enhanced parental leave • Flexible core working hours • Cycle to work scheme • Pension with NEST • Private Medical Insurance with Vitality • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Paid time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss • Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years service at Butternut • Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts • Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Peggy, Chief, Louis, Hansen, Winnie and many more….)