Discover how the Checkatrade EGF is reshaping the future of engineering talent and empowering individuals...
Checka-Who?
We’re full steam ahead on our dynamic digital journey, taking part in serious transformation, and world-class innovation. We are a truly agile two-sided marketplace; we get excited by innovation and invest heavily in the latest tech and our people who bring it to life. So, if you are a top-notch tech, product or data expert who can’t wait a second longer to succeed at a fast-paced dot com, we’d love to hear from you.
About us
"The trusted foundation of every home"
We're on a mission to reshape the world of trades and homeownership. Our focus? Leveraging cutting-edge technology to craft a service that truly matters – making life simpler and more efficient for tradespeople and customers alike. We're not just a platform; we're a trusted foundation for every home. We connect people seamlessly with the right trades and tools, simplifying everything from booking to payment. We're champions of safe, happy homes, committed to improving lives and knitting communities closer together.
25 years in business and growing, our foundations are solid, and our future is bright. With generous investment from Brookfield, our private equity partners, we have an ambitious scale-up plan and a robust roadmap to get there. If you join us, you're coming at a great time. In fact, we are looking to more than quadruple in size over the next few years. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. That could be you.
So, if you want to be part of a forward-thinking, values driven business that is truly going places - then maybe this is the place for you?
Talk Tech to me
Our current tech and product organisation is over 150 strong across Product, UX, Engineering, DevOps and Data & Insights. We know we are good, but we are not perfect…Yet. On our journey, we take progress over perfection. A solution over a problem. Programme over Project. Being Agile over Doing Agile.
Our Engineering teams work on a cutting-edge tech stack built on Google Cloud (GCP). Some of the cool things we work on include the latest versions of .NET, C#, React Native, React, Typescript, JavaScript, Node, Salesforce, NoSQL, Test automation, Shift-Left methodology, Docker, TDD, BDD, Full CI/CD, event driven architecture, serverless technologies and much more!
Our tech stack provides a solid foundation for our growth. To make the wheels turn faster, we are also integrating AI Technology and removing remaining legacy tech.
As a team, we run sprints, hackathons, and stand-ups but we don’t run away from a challenge. We thrive under pressure, fail fast, own it, get excited about it, learn from it, and deliver on it.
Websites: https://www.checkatrade.com/
Careers Website: https://careers.checkatrade.com/
Business Sector: Internet Marketplace
Office Locations: London and Portsmouth – hybrid working applies
Number of People: Circa 500 (circa 50% Female)
Employees in Technology: 140 (circa 25% female)
Leadership Team
CEO: Jambu Palaniappan
Chief People Officer: John Frith
CPO: Ira Roxburgh
Interim CTO: Vrash Irde
CMO: Sebastien De Brandt
COO: Mathieu Proust
Chief of Staff: David White
Group General Counsel: Helen Kennedy-Shamir
Chief Data Officer: Tom Pandolfo
Women in Tech
We spend a large chunk of our lives at work, so let’s enjoy it. Here at Checkatrade, we really care about our people and do a lot to make them feel happy.
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination should it arise. We want to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background, origin, or ethnicity.
Women in Tech is close to our heart. Our internal Women in Tech bubble was set up early 2023 to address the ongoing Checkatrade and industry wide drive to get more women and non-binaries into tech-based careers. Our women in tech make up 25% of our total Checkatrade workforce. Whilst this is higher than industry standard, it’s important we continue to drive a long-term Women in Tech programme that sets an upward trend for all levels of intake. Some of the roles carried out by our brilliant females are:
Chief Product Officer
Engineering Manager
Technical Programme Manager
React Developer
Software Engineer
Software Test Engineer
Product Manager
UX/ UI Designer
Data Analyst
Salesforce Developer
Junior Information Security Analyst
Product Operations Director
Head of UX Research
Head of Product Marketing
Head of Data Analytics
Principal Product Manager
Analytics Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Associate Engineering Manager
Senior Product Manager (Communication) in Kings Cross, London - Checkatrade Careers
Don’t see a role that is right for you just now?
Why not join our diverse talent pool? Reach out to Laura Sheehan.
We believe in the power of homes to improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities. We believe that every home deserves to be comfortable, warm, and safe. We believe that home improvements should be easy, seamless, and affordable for everyone. We believe that every home should be happy.
That’s why our Mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with the trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
This is not just a slogan or company strapline. It is a declaration of our purpose and our passion. It’s who we are and who we are to be.
Our ValuesBe All In
Always Customer Obsessed
Be Bold
Get It Done
Do The Right Thing
Our values are who we are and what we do. As a collective we are all in and moving at pace. We have a bias for action and are always customer obsessed. We are innately ambitious and think big and bold. And we always do the right thing by our customers and our team.
Join us for an insightful episode as we delve into the world of mentoring at Checkatrade. Our guests, Jess and Rossana, bring a unique perspective to the table: mentor and mentee.
We sit down with Jess Madhavan, Engineering Manager at Checkatrade to share her own experiences of working both in the male-dominated tradesmen sector and the male-dominated tech world.
How do we bring our company values to life? Easy – through our people! That’s why we asked Anisa, Head of UX Research, to give us a peek.
As part of our commitment to our Women in Tech agenda, we had the pleasure of interviewing Chantel, who is nearing her impressive 10-year milestone at Checkatrade!
UK's Best Workplaces in TechAs a growing tech business with exciting growth plans ahead, we’re pleased to share that we have been announced as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech.
Depending on the role you apply for we use varied assessment methods to find a Checkatrade match. Following your initial chat with your recruiter, we’ll pull on a rounded three step recruitment process that reduces unconscious bias and enables you to showcase your skills, aptitudes, and behaviours. As much we are looking for the right match, we are also assessing your capacity to grow with us!
Attendees created solutions designed to make a real impact in women’s lives. These include ideas such as apps and web hosting solutions for finding the safest route home and ways to alert emergency contacts if you don’t make it home at the intended time.
We met with Jessica Berry at our IWD Hackathon. She talks us through how she ended up as a Technical Program Manager.
Doing good things that achieve good outcomes for our people and the wider Checkatrade community is paramount. At Checkatrade, our CSR activity is focussed in three areas: charity, community and sustainability.
Charity and community
We encourage  people to donate their time and skills in their local communities, with each person at Checkatrade getting five days volunteering leave (in addition to their annual leave) to spend how they choose, supporting causes that are close to their hearts.
We also offer a payroll giving scheme as well as the chance to sign up to the Pennies From Heaven programme – a hassle-free way to round up your salary and donate the extra pennies to charity.
We are also honoured to be a corporate partner of Hampshire-based charity, Sophie’s Legacy, who were chosen by our colleagues as our charity of the year for 2024.
Most recently we’ve also partnered with Lighthouse Charity, an organisation dedicated to supporting the emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing of the construction community in the UK and Ireland.
Sustainability
We support the UK’s mission towards the decarbonisation of homes and households. We all need to do better and Checkatrade wants to help. We’re proud to have a number of initiatives which help our teams become greener, our consumers to retrofit their homes, and our industry to have more skilled trades working in to green jobs.
Some of the ways we help our teams to contribute to a greener world are: offices powered by renewable energy, Carbon Trust Pledge and eco-bottles to reduce single use plastic. For travel, whether you are about two wheels or four wheels, we’ve got you covered with a Cycle to Work Scheme and a subsidised Electric Vehicle scheme.
React
React Native
Typescript
Google Cloud (GCP)
Node.js
Docker
ShiftLeft
Salesforce
NoSQL
.NET
24/7 Healthcare
Gym Membership
Pension
Smart Tech
Life Assurance
Study Leave
Electrical Vehicle Scheme
Wellness Cash Plan
Payroll Giving
Cycle to Work Scheme
Referral Scheme
Charity Leave
Company Parties and Events
