Find More Than 10K+
United Kingdom Jobs

We are Lick

We are building a people-powered decorating movement where everyone feels supported and inspired to transform their space with our unique pigment-rich colours and high quality products. All with consideration to your and our home; planet Earth.

We’re a business that believes in building confidence in our decorators. Seeing their bright ideas and making them happen. We do this by giving our do-er uppers access to inspiration, advice and how-to guidance from our experts and wider community. As well as making our range of (water-based, low VOC) paint, (FSC-certified) wallpaper, and eco-supplies with real people and real homes in mind.

It's why we curate a selection of pigment-rich paints with unique depth of colour and their own individual identity, and high-quality designer wallpapers. It's why we have an expert team of colour consultants on-hand to help with any decorating question, big or small. It's why we're building a supportive community of decorators to inspire each other with their projects.

Because we know that a small change in colour can have a huge impact on the way we feel.

Gone are the days of too much choice, feeling like you’re doing it alone, and messy, expensive sample pots. This is a fresh look for decorating.

Decorator success starts at home...our home. That is why we are also on a mission to be the definitive people-powered company. Building an environment where individuals thrive and collectively transform an entire category.

About the company

The home decor brand was founded in 2019 by Lucas London and Sam Bradley - both experienced startup entrepreneurs - targeting the $1trillon global home decor market. The business has raised over $28m since inception. OMERS Ventures lead our Series A round in June 2021 with participation from existing investors Felix Capital and contributions from entrepreneurs and PE investors including Magnus Rausing, Alex Chesterman and Kathaka, the family office of Caroline Rupert of Richemont. Our sights are set on scale, this means expanding our product offering, launching new sustainability initiatives, and growing our already thriving community of home decorators across the globe.

Check out The Times coverage of our Series A investment round

Get the headlines from our record breaking £1M Decorator powered crowd funding campaign

Read what our investors think about our mission and vision as we redefine a category

Read some home decor industry press coverage

Some examples of our US press coverage following our launch Stateside in April '22 House Beautiful and Apartment Therapy

Check out Lick in action in our Rixo Decorating Diary, Daisy Lowe House Tour and Made.com Showroom Tour

MOST IMPORTANTLY Read what our decorators have to say in our Trust Pilot reviews

Our UK Office

We recently opened our beautiful new space in the heart of Brixton, London. Located 3 mins walk from the tube station. We have everything you need to deliver our goal of creating a centre for collaboration, connection, fresh perspectives.

We encourage UK team members to use the office as and when it adds value to you and the team. However, we are a fully remote tech team.

We are a hybrid working team and we believe in the value of getting together offline and online. For this reason, we are focused on hiring candidates who can easily work in London. We see huge value in our team sharing an office together and strongly encourage everyone to use it as often as they can.

Our UK space is a 3 mins walk from Brixton underground station, there are fresh coffee, snacks, and refreshments, a stunning communal outdoor terrace area with 270-degree views, and additional breakout spaces throughout the building.

There are lots of secure spaces for you to store a bicycle/shower/change as needed.

Sustainability at Lick

Reducing our environmental impact is at the forefront of what we do and how we do it

Supercharging a fresh look for decorating means fixing the home decor industry’s environmental footprint. This is why we've put sustainability at the top of our agenda. We’re constantly working to lower our impact on the planet, and create a better future for our kids.

We're on our way...thousands of people are using our peel and stick samples (95% less waste than sample pots) and our low VOC water-based paints (fewer harmful chemicals and a more easily biodegradable end product). Our packaging is 100% biodegradable (our biodegradable plastic bags are even water-soluble). We use sustainably farmed bamboo in all our supplies, and are moving to recycled paper in all our printed materials. We're also moving our paint tin production to the UK, and continuing our partnerships with 4ocean and One Tree Planted (for every tin sold, we remove 18g plastic from the ocean and for every roll of wallpaper or blind sold we plant one tree). But like a renovation project – there’s always more we can do, and we're determined to do it across everything we do.

For more information on how we work to ensure our products are created in a sustainable way and an in-dept look at our eco credentials please check out our sustainability hub on our site here.

Wellbeing at Lick

We are building a team filled with incredible human beings and it is our collective unique spirits that make Lick very special. We're cultivating an environment where we can all truly be ourselves (on the good days and the bad) and make an authentic impact. Growing and thriving as individuals and achieving something very significant together.

We want it to be easy to openly discuss how you are feeling. We want it to be easy for you to do the things you know will help you thrive. We want to empower you to own your mental health and wellbeing we want to ensure you feel supported in doing so.

Our goal is to empower you to own your time and impact. We aim to provide you with the information and support you need to empower you to do fulfilling, impactful work and build relationships that matter.

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Lick

People are at the centre of everything we do at Lick. We work hard to make sure that we're amplifying diverse voices externally within our amazing community of decorators. Equally, we are on a mission to make Lick a company where every member of our team feels they can truly be themselves and genuinely make an impact. Today we would say we are doing a good job of attracting diverse talent and proving a home to thrive in, but our ambitions are bigger than that. We're working on ways to be able to formally follow through on this commitment, such as our team led Belonging Impact Group, and approach to see each individual.

As a team, we are committed to educating ourselves and sharing important resources within the business to inform what we do and how we do it, and to always keep learning and improving. We have been lucky to have some amazing speakers on the subjects of LGBTQ+ Pride History, and Inclusive Design Processes. That is just the start.

Our Culture

We are nearly three years old and our culture will continue to evolve like everything we do. To give you a sense of what to expect, we can confirm it's fast and are very ambitious, with high expectations. We believe a great team can do great things and we work hard to ensure you have what you need to thrive and make a real impact. We put a huge emphasis on information sharing, communications and relationships. We use data and customer insights to improve what we do and how we do it.

We have ambitious business goals, and are equally ambitious about WHAT we achieve as HOW we achieve those goals. We don’t just do things a certain way because that’s how it’s always been done. We’re here to transform an entire category, this means developing new and better ways of doing things. You can see this in our team everyday and in all aspects of our culture and commitments to Sustainability, Wellbeing, DEI and the decorator experience.

As a team, we are focused on building a team that really cares and supports one another, one where everyone has the opportunity to build real friendships. We encourage and support this informally each day and always have a range of events from Yoga Classes to Movie Nights, Thursday Drinks and Weekly Mindful Walks to bring everyone together outside of the work environment.

About The Role

With huge early traction, we are in the process of investment into our technology team, we are a small diverse team that is scaling. The investment is focused on building a world class technology team that will push the boundaries of what is possible and disrupt the home decor sector.

We are looking for a full time, highly-skilled Full Stack Software Engineer, to help build out our core technical product offerings. As a Full Stack Software Engineer you will be executing our ambitious roadmap and redefining the future of the home decor space.

This role will give you the opportunity to build both internal and external products. Every day is different, as we continue to build out our user experience, super charge our event driven architecture and prepare for our industry expansion as well as helping with optimising internal operations. We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about best practice methodologies, cutting-edge technology and funnel optimisation.

Our Tech Stack

We currently have a mono repo driven by Lerna for all our applications. Our front end application is built using NextJS, we also utilise TypeScript, React, Styled Components and our API is built on ExpressJS. To supercharge our system we leverage serverless functions with event queues to drive all our integrations. This is all supported by AWS, Terraform and CircleCI.

To maintain quality throughout our applications we employ the use of Jest and React Testing Library for our unit testing. We are also building out our functional testing framework with Cypress.

The heart of our technology is our E-commerce layer, built upon Shopify's headless StoreFront API and GraphCMSs headless CMS API. To maintain quality and showcase our work we use Storybook to build out our UI components using atomic design principles.

Responsibilities

• You will assist in the code management process all through QA, UAT, versioning, deployment and consistently audit and refactor this code to ensure stability and improve performance
• You will be a contributor to our codebase and and consistently assist in the software process through QA, UAT, versioning, deployment
• Core contributor in delivering projects and KPIs on-time. Writing high-quality, well-tested code and delivering features, autonomously, seeing projects through to completion
• Develop new features and improve existing ones, considering all users in the process, whether they be internal (e.g content or operations teams) or consumers
• Work closely with product and UX/UI to ensure requirements are met from a user experience and technical point of view
• Ensure we are fostering an environment of discovery and innovation, contributing to evolving what we do and ensuring it is best in class
• Help design, execute and scale our event-driven micro services architecture
• Ensure quality is maintained across all our technology systems
• Ensure all important technical decisions are documented and shared across the department

Requirements

The experience we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree (or above) in Computer Science/Maths/Physics/similar, or equivalent real world experience and platforms using JavaScript and/or Typescript
• Experience with delivering scalable, distributed, cloud-based systems in a highly available manner
• Solid understanding of JavaScript including NodeJS
• Familiar with functional programming
• Strong understanding of different software engineering practices, infrastructure, and how each can help deliver more value to users
• Previous experience in other startups (bonus)
• Experience/Familiar with atomic design patterns
• Experience using JIRA, Asana, or equivalent work-flow tools

Qualities Required:

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, start-up environment, as well as collaborating with a remote software engineering team
• You have a continuous improvement mindset, constantly seeking to reduce waste and avoid re-work
• You are a self-driven engineer, experienced with working independently, but can also work as a part of a team
• You love to learn and are results driven
• You care about your end users whether they be internal or external
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• You are passionate about clean and appropriately tested code
• Strong analytical and critical thinking

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options grants for all team members
• 26 days holiday (plus your birthday off) + Bank Holidays + December holidays (around 22nd December-3rd January for most roles). We aim to power you to own your time and expect everyone to take minimum 22 days off annually.
• Flexible Working - owning your time underpins our Wellbeing strategy. We all have a specific number of contracted hours to work per week, once you deliver on your role requirements as expected, you can start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch, leave a bit later, it's totally up to you.
• £300 allowance for Lick products.
• Private pension scheme
• Vitality Healthcare with added Mental Health package (plus full cover for therapy and counselling).
• You’ll get the first-hand experience of being part of, and growing with high growth, super early stage, fast-moving, and ambitious company.
• Relaxed work from home policy (UK employees use the office 2-3 days each week) with the option to use more or less depending on your personal situation (no one size fits all).
• A growth-focused team, you will enjoy monthly Deep Dive sessions from your fellow teammates and regular Skills sessions.
• Contribute to building and scaling a culture where wellbeing is part of how we do things, not just a bonus.
• Lots of amazing opportunities to get to know other members of the team at different team events and have an impact on our culture through our Belonging Impact Group and beyond.
• A proactive approach to creating a working environment that supports/reflects our team member's unique personal needs..
• You are hopefully reading this and thinking I can't wait to be part of the team that makes this even better as the company grows ;)

Lick is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our applicants. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email us at [email protected]