Software Engineer

About Us

Megaslice is a UK-based boutique technology consultancy, focused on projects that turn non-technology businesses into technology businesses, which involves large elements of ambition, risk and creativity. We are not about straightforward websites or apps. There are enough people out there doing that.

Our work spans many areas of technology, across hardware and software, from low-level programming to lofty technological strategy at an executive level. And whatever we are doing, we are intensely focused on using technology to make our customers’ situations better, and boost their businesses.

We are a small business, but we run on a model similar to that of lawyers: the partners are always ultimately responsible for the work, and must understand every detail of what’s going on. But just as lawyers need paralegals, we need talented engineers to support us in our work.

About the Job

We are looking for multitalented technology people, at any level of experience, who are interested in a lot of things, and find that no specific job description suits them. We are looking for those amongst us who don’t know where they fit in, but feel they fit in everywhere, and that one job would limit them.

Skills and Experience

We are more interested in your character, your attitude and your route here than in your formal work experience. But with that said:

• First and foremost, you must love technology. A genuine interest beyond your job or studies is strongly preferred. Side projects, open source contributions, hardware tinkering — this matters to us.
• You must be comfortable designing and architecting a small-to-medium system end-to-end, making reasonable decisions about structure, components and tradeoffs, and documenting those decisions clearly.
• Comfortable dealing with every level of the SDLC, from initial requirements to operational deployment.
• No qualms about working anywhere in the tech stack, be it frontend, backend, database, OS, or hardware.
• Have a working, clear-headed relationship with LLMs and AI tooling. You understand these tools, use them where appropriate, and keep pace with how they are developing.
• You must be very comfortable with surrounding concerns such as hardware and networking.
• Having a range of “maker” style experience will be a huge weighting factor in your selection.
• You must know how to do proper research — reading documentation, literature and prior work — so you are not reinventing the wheel or introducing too much complexity.
• Learning aggressively and widely is already part of who you are.
• Know how to manage and direct a small team of more junior engineers (approx. 2 or 3).
• Believe that no task is beneath you when in the service of the end goal.
• Be comfortable with risk and the unknown, and be patient with adversity and irrationality.
• Communicate technical work clearly to other engineers, and translate it at a high level to non-technical stakeholders when needed.
• Write and communicate clearly, accurately, and concisely.
• Balance diligence and quality with getting things done on time.
• Write and communicate clearly, accurately, and concisely.
• Show humility and integrity, and care for your teammates.
• Understand we are a small business, and your work has a significant impact on our survival.
• Be comfortable travelling occasionally. We have our head office in Slough, UK, customers in multiple countries and our co-founder is based in Brno.

Perks

• No artificial restrictions on the time and place of your work. We can do remote and we can do in-person. It all depends on the actual work to be done, not an arbitrary attendance policy.
• All your reasonable work-related travel and expenses will be reimbursed, and as we build trust with you, you will be assigned a card to make payments, as well as a discretionary budget.
• We will give you access to training platforms and courses, and work with you to create a personal development plan, wherein we commit to improving your skills.
• No restrictions on the tools you want to use, as long as you can interoperate with the rest of us, and accept a little bit of our standard comms infrastructure.
• Getting the right equipment to do the job is rarely a problem, and there is no laborious approval process. Ask and get an answer fast.
• Challenges
• The business is doing well, but we have a lot more work on than we quite have the capacity for, so it will be pretty hard (but interesting!) work while we continue to hire.
• We work very hard to ensure we meet our customer’s expectations, which might sometimes mean a blurring of the boundary between work life and normal life. We do try to avoid this for everyone’s sanity!
• While we will never ask or force anyone to work more than 40 hours a week, the timing of those hours can be a little weird and antisocial, due to the ambitious and complex nature of our projects.

Location

Czech Republic; preferably Brno area, remote within CZ/SK considered