Hello. We’re Housekeep, one of Europe’s fastest growing businesses. We make housework work.
What we do
We find customers brilliant local cleaners. We make the whole process seamless - from click to clean to cashless payment. And we make it easier for cleaners to find work and make money. It’s smart, it’s stress-free, it’s housework that works.
We're growing fast and have big plans
Housekeep is the UK’s biggest technology platform connecting clients and cleaners in the £5 billion house cleaning market. We make it easy for customers to book, manage & pay their cleaner online and have created the best place for cleaners to find work.
Although we’re a young business, we’re already the UK’s biggest technology platform in the £5 billion home cleaning market. And we’re growing fast. But we don’t want to stop there. We're now expanding into new services and new cities - right across the UK. And one day we want to ‘own the home’. Doing everything from cleaning to gardening to fixing wonky shelves.
We’re proud of the many awards we’ve won - but it’s our customers’ feedback that really counts.
Our work has been recognised by 40 plus awards. And we’re especially proud to have been named as one of Europe’s fastest-growing businesses by the Financial Times three years in a row. But it’s our customers’ feedback that really counts. We’re really pleased to have over 800,000 reviews with an average rating of 4.9 stars.
We haven't built this position by luck. We've delivered this by being smarter than anyone else, by building innovative tech and by making the right decisions on repeat. And that’s where you come in.
Why we need you
Disrupting the home cleaning market throws up a lot of hard problems: real-time scheduling, job-allocation, routing and messaging to coordinate thousands of daily home visits. And all this complexity has to be presented to our cleaners, customers and operations staff with beautiful, intuitive user interfaces.
Our ambitions are much bigger than winning in a single vertical. We've built a platform from which we can not only tackle the £5 billion home cleaning market, but from which we can also address the £10 billion commercial cleaning and £40 billion tradespeople markets. We have already made promising starts in each of these new markets, and we plan to scale up our tech team with the very best engineers to supercharge our growth.
We are looking for a bright, driven, full-stack Senior Software Engineer who is excited about solving complex problems and building scalable platforms.
The role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
1. Understand complex business problems then propose and implement technical solutions
2. Have input into the architecture, working closely with the Head of Technology and other senior team members
3. Work with other engineers and the business to improve user experiences
4. Bring your experience and enthusiasm to our engineering culture
5. Promote excellence with technical mentoring, feedback, and code reviews
6. Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos
7. Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability
The candidate
8. You have built great products for the web and/or mobile
9. You have analysed business problems then scoped and built technical solutions to solve them
10. You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both
11. You’re excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
12. You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements
13. You will be proud to show how you’ve impacted other parts of a business and delivered results
14. You will be pushing frameworks and languages for good business reasons
15. You stay up-to-date with developments in AI and are comfortable using AI tools to boost your productivity and problem solving
The tech
Our core technologies are:
16. Python on the server side, using Django as a web framework, and Django Rest Framework for our API
17. Angular and TypeScript on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow
18. and Reactfor parts of our marketing website
19. Ionic for hybrid and progressive mobile apps
20. PostgreSQL for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities
21. Metabase for analysis and self-serve data exploration
22. Redis for caching and task queues
23. GitHub, Codeship and Heroku for seamless code review, integration and deployment
24. Claude Code for agentic coding
25. AWS S3, CloudFront and Lambda for storage and content delivery
26. Cypress for end-to-end testing
27. Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more
Our tech culture
We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints. We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable.
We strongly believe in ownership at Housekeep, and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users.
We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency.
We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.
Perks
28. Share options
29. 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
30. Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days
31. Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning
32. Cycle to Work scheme
33. Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme
34. Access to Employee Pricing Programs
35. Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel
36. Choice of hardware, OS and IDE – you do you
37. Posh Christmas and Summer parties
38. Tons of sponsored team socials
39. Casual dress code