Blok is a digital real estate agency for residential properties. Simply put, we help people buy and sell apartments. Why? Real estate transactions are notorious for being the largest and most stressful financial decisions we take during our lives. There are a lot of questions, uncertainty and the process has traditionally been opaque and costly. Our goal at Blok is to fix that by providing a transparent and cost-efficient service, where the customer feels that she’s in control.
The Role
Blok is building a modern real estate platform that gives superpowers to our inhouse agents and customers on the field. We are now looking for Full Stack Engineers to join our product team of builders. Your role is to improve and extend our platform to new areas. You’ll get ownership and responsibility to develop and maintain services on our platform. This requires a proactive and self-directed mentality. However you must also be able to work within a larger group since you’ll be collaborating with other team members on larger projects. We're looking for talented individuals with at least 3+ years experience in software engineering.
The Mission
You’ll enter the company in a very exciting phase of the company’s lifecycle as we are expanding to new markets and broadening our product portfolio. Your focus will largely lay on developing new products and services. The themes of these include: helping people find homes in highly competitive markets, help home-owners to monitor the value of their home and inhouse services to boost customer acquisition.
The Stack
Our stack consists of Python (Django framework) and our databases speak SQL. For our front-end applications we use Javascript (React/Vue). We don’t require prior experience of building things with Django or Python, but any experience from Python based frameworks (Django, Flask) is a plus.
The Team
Although our company consists of enterprising professionals from many fields the company is at the core a technology company, which means engineering is highly appreciated and respected throughout the company. The overarching ethos of our engineering team centers around being proactive and hands-on. Our Blok product team is still rather small, only 6 people.
The Process
Our recruitment process consists of five stages. We expect the application process to take between 2-3 weeks from start to finish.
Application: We review your CV and free form application.
First Interview: Applicants who fill the requirements are invited for an interview. The theme of the first interview is to get to know the applicant in-person and get a clearer understanding of their background and experience.
Task: Applicants who pass the first interview will receive a take-home programming task to evaluate their skills and approach to a set of problems.
Second interview: After reviewing the result of the task we invite select applicants to the second interview. The scope of the second interview is broader and its aim is to determine how the applicant would fit into the company culture and team. This interview typically includes other people from the engineering team and other departments outside engineering.
Offer: Applicants who pass all four stages receive a job offer.
The Offer
A full-time position
A competitive pay and possibility to take part in the company’s option program
Flexible work hours and vacation: Morning person or a night owl, this job is for you
Located near public transit: Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace
Choose your own device policy: Whether you like to work with penguins, cute robots or expensive fruits we got you covered
Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan
Pension plan: We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly
Maternity / paternity leave: Kids are the future, go spend time with them
This job comes with several perks and benefits