Bubble

We're in the business of making parenthood easier - using technology to bring freedom and enjoyment into everyday life, to make parents, and those they love the most, happier.

Founded 2015
1-15 employees
  • Consumer Mobile
  • Headquarters address
    Camburgh House, 27 New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 3DN

    Lots of 'coffee-shop' conversations go nowhere special, but this one in particular led to bubble. Ari and Adrian worked together at online betting exchange Betfair but, as Dads, we had the same problem - a problem familiar to every parent - how to reclaim a little bit of their social lives. We all love our kids but sometimes you need the ability to get some time to yourself, and that is how bubble was born.

    We are a newly-launched smartphone app which supports a marketplace for parents trying to find babysitters on demand. Parents can search profiles; send the same request to multiple sitters (the first one to accept gets the job, locking out the others); the sit starts at the appointed time and the parent stops the sit whenever they get home, with a cashless payment calculated upto the minute paid directly into the sitter's bank account.

    Babysitting is based around personal recommendations - the agencies are a tiny fraction of the wider market - so we use the users' social networks to show them how they are connected to each other, and they can ask those friends / other users for a reference on any particular sitter.

    It's built using a graph DB which we think has potential to deliver a very personal/personalised experience. So, while the app is aimed at connecting and enabling babysitting, we believe it can be applied to lots of different but related verticals. By developing the connections and search algorithims our mission is to bridge the gap between people requiring and delivering a wide range of services.

    We're based in central London and we're looking for a tech lead who can take us through the next stage and beyond in order to achieve this vision. Ideally, the right candidate will be full-stack, have 3-5 years experience and believe that mobile is the future.

    Tech stack

    Cordova, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Backbone, mongoDB, grapheneDB, Azure/AWS