We're excited to see how you approach building quality software! Think of this as creating an open source project you'd be proud to share on GitHub.

Time commitment: Minimum 90 minutes (feel free to spend more time if you'd like)

What we're looking for: High-quality code with great architecture, clear decision-making, and thoughtful implementation. We value understanding over speed, so avoid frameworks that do all the heavy lifting for you.

Show us how you think through clear naming, comments, tests, and architectural choices.

Create a Docker container with a Python-based application. We prefer FastAPI, but any framework works.

Choose the track that matches your role:

• Render stores from stores.json in alphabetical order
• Integrate with Postcodes.io to fetch and display latitude/longitude for each store's postcode
• Build functionality to return stores within a given radius of a UK postcode, ordered north to south. This function should include unit tests.

Backend:

• Create an API that searches stores from stores.json (e.g., searching "hav" returns "Newhaven")
• Order results by matching postcode first, then city name (e.g., "br" shows "Orpington" (BR5 3RP) before "Bracknell")
• Include unit tests

Frontend (using Vue or React preferred):

• Build a search interface with a text field and results list
• Add type-ahead suggestions with 100ms debounce (minimum 2 characters)
• Display 3 results initially, lazy load more on scroll

• Zip your code (max 10MB) and upload via the "Show Questions" button in your email
• Include a text file with answers to:
  1. Which track did you complete? (backend or full-stack)
  2. What would you do differently with more time?
  3. What was the hardest part? What are you most proud of? Why?
  4. How could we improve this test?

Good luck! We're looking forward to seeing your work. 🚀