Senior Javascript Developer

Job title: Senior Javascript Developer

Pay Range: £60,000+

Reports to: CTO

About Us

Odro builds technology that helps recruitment businesses work smarter. Our products are used by hundreds of recruitment brands and thousands of recruiters worldwide.

Our product suite includes Vision, a video communication platform for recruiters; AssistCV, a CV formatting tool built on our modern stack that streamlines candidate presentation for recruitment consultants; and Vantage, a new market intelligence platform currently in development that will help recruiters identify opportunities within their markets and specialisms. We have many more plans in the pipeline for the near future too, all of which you’ll help build with us.

We are a small, ambitious team. You won't be a cog in a machine - you'll have direct impact on products, architecture decisions, and the direction of the technology.

The Role

We're looking for a senior developer who is comfortable working across the full stack and happy moving between greenfield product development and maintaining legacy systems.

Day to day, you'll be working alongside our development team on a mixture of:

• New product development - building out Vantage, evolving AssistCV, and developing future products using our modern stack (NestJS, TypeScript, GraphQL via Hasura, PostgreSQL, Vue.js)
• Legacy platform work - maintaining and improving our older Node.js applications (Express, Handlebars, MongoDB)
• Data and ingestion - working with large datasets, building and optimising data pipelines, and ensuring our systems perform at scale

This is a hands on role. We are looking for someone who can take a feature from concept through to production - designing the solution, writing the code, and owning the release.

We're Looking for someone who:

• Takes ownership and works autonomously - we're a growing team and need self-starters
• Is pragmatic - you understand the difference between ideal and achievable, and can navigate both
• Communicates clearly - whether that's in code, in a pull request, or in a conversation about trade-offs
• Uses AI tools intelligently - we actively encourage the use of AI-assisted development where it improves velocity and quality; we want someone who embraces this rather than resists it

Culture and Fit

This matters to us, a lot. We're a close-knit team and the person we hire will have an outsized impact on how it feels to work here day to day.

We're looking for someone who:

• Is genuinely collaborative - willing to challenge ideas respectfully and be challenged in return
• Brings energy and enthusiasm - we're building something and we want people who are excited by that
• Doesn't need to be managed closely - you'll have autonomy and we trust you to use it well
• Has a sense of humour - we take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously
• Cares about the quality of what they ship, but understands that done is often better than perfect

If you thrive in environments where you can see your contribution making a tangible difference, and you'd rather be across the full picture than siloed into a narrow lane, this is likely a good fit.

Experience

The following aren't requirements, but would genuinely strengthen your application:

• GraphQL / Hasura experience
• AI and embeddings - experience with vector databases, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or applying AI/ML techniques to deliver better user experiences
• MongoDB (we still have legacy systems running on it)
• CI/CD and DevOps - Docker, build pipelines, automated testing
• AWS (or similar cloud platforms - GCP, Azure)
• Kubernetes
• ElasticSearch
• Real-time / WebSocket programming

Key Responsibilities

• Contributing code and technical expertise across the full product suite
• Owning features end-to-end - from solution design through to production release
• Working with and optimising databases and data pipelines for performance and scale
• Maintaining and improving legacy applications alongside new product development
• Performing code reviews and upholding code quality standards
• Proactively identifying and driving improvements to software, tooling, and processes
• Protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer and company data

A Note on AI

We see AI as a tool, not a threat. Our CTO actively encourages intelligent use of AI-assisted development - whether that's using copilot-style tools to accelerate coding, leveraging LLMs for problem-solving, or exploring how AI can enhance our products. If you're someone who's been experimenting with these tools and thinking about how they change the way we build software, you'll fit right in.

Practicalities

• Salary: £60,000+ depending on experience
• Location: Candidates should be based in or around the Glasgow area. This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in our Glasgow HQ.
• Type: Full-time, permanent