Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Aid in the effective delivery of software for your team.

• Collaborate closely with the Lead Software Engineer and the Product Manager.

• Work effectively with all team members to meet commitments.

• Actively engage in Agile ceremonies and apply Agile delivery principles to your work.

• Develop, support, and maintain products that are consistently delivered into our production environments.

• Design, implement, and document clean, maintainable, and scalable code that follows SOLID principles.

• Contribute to the enhancement of existing codebases through practical refactoring and deliberate extension, ensuring high test coverage and long-term reliability.

• Participate in technical discussions during task analysis, design meetings, and code reviews.

• Design and implement complex APIs, backend services, and front-end applications using modern technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Contribute to the development and refinement of our coding standards and engineering principles, applying this knowledge to your own code and code reviews.

• Employ insightful analysis and planning to address complex situations.

• Ensure that you develop software that addresses all aspects of product delivery, particularly non-functional quality attributes such as security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and accessibility.

• Comply with all Information Security policies and procedures.

• Continuously learn about new technologies, frameworks, and libraries, remaining open to utilizing a variety of frameworks and libraries.

⛳️ Requirements

• You possess experience in frontend and backend software development within our tech stack, which includes Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.

• You have experience in developing back-end REST APIs and working with relational or NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with data structures and data-driven design is required.

• Experience with modern web frameworks and libraries, such as React Router and Express, is essential.

• Proficient in enhancing software delivery productivity and code quality through prompt engineering with agentic coding assistants, and skilled in reviewing AI-generated output for alignment with engineering idioms and team best practices.

• Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging systems is beneficial.

• Familiarity with source code repositories such as GitLab or GitHub is required.

• You have experience with unit and integration testing.

• Ability to identify and mitigate against OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities.

• Knowledge and implementation of predefined secure coding practices and secure architecture patterns are necessary.

• Experience in refactoring systems towards a cleaner architecture, utilizing techniques including abstraction and facades is required.

• Capable of reviewing complex merge requests and providing constructive feedback to junior and mid-level engineers to enhance their code quality.

• Take ownership of tasks, analyze them, and solve unfamiliar problems.

• Experience working as a software engineer in a team setting and openness to pair programming.

• Understanding of Agile principles and values, with the ability to refine user stories into tasks and guide them through to delivery.

• Understanding of how to utilize telemetry and metrics to manage operational tasks.

• A collaborative spirit and a desire to learn from others while sharing your knowledge are essential.

• You display technical curiosity, resilience in problem-solving, and seek feedback early and often.

• Stay current with modern development and operations practices and be aware of the latest trends and tools.

• Committed to self-learning, demonstrating how you have developed your skills.

• Proficient in communicating context and sharing your understanding of problems with your team.

• Communicate clearly and effectively, both in written and verbal formats.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.

• We prioritize a sustainable work/life balance.

• We foster a collaborative learning culture that promotes psychological safety.

• 25 days of annual leave plus every bank holiday.

• Company pension with up to a 10% employer contribution.

• Performance-based bonus scheme.

• Paid day off to celebrate your birthday.

• Option to purchase additional holiday (up to 5 days per year).

• Additional holidays for length of service (up to 3 days).

• Private medical insurance.

• Dental and health cash plans.

• Enhanced parental leave and pay.

• Discounts on gym memberships and health screenings.

• Employee assistance program.

• Life assurance of 4x basic salary.

• £500 pension advice per year.

• 6 paid days per year for self-development.

• £500 individual training budget per year.

• Funding for professional memberships.

• Salary sacrifice car scheme.

• Cycle, Home & Tech scheme.