Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the successful delivery of software for your team.
• Work closely with the Lead Software Engineer and the Product Manager.
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Collaborate actively in Agile ceremonies and apply Agile delivery principles to your work.
• Build, support, and maintain products that are continuously delivered into our production environments.
• Design, implement and document clean, maintainable, and scalable code that adheres to SOLID principles.
• Contribute to the evolution of existing codebases through pragmatic refactoring and thoughtful extension, ensuring high test coverage and long-term reliability.
• Participate in technical discussions during task analysis, design meetings, and code reviews.
• Design and implement non-trivial APIs, backend services, and front-end applications using modern technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js and IaC.
• Contribute to the growth and refinement of our coding standards and engineering principles, applying this knowledge to your code and code reviews.
• Apply insightful analysis and planning to tackle non-trivial situations.
• Ensure you build software where all aspects of product delivery are covered, especially non-functional quality attributes such as security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and accessibility.
• Adhere to All Information Security policies and procedures.
• Continually learn about new technology, frameworks and libraries, being open to building with a variety of frameworks and libraries.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• You have experience with our frontend and backend software development in our tech stack of Node.js, Typescript, Javascript and React.
• You have experience in developing back-end REST APIs and working with relational or NoSQL databases.
• Some knowledge of data structures and data-driven design.
• Experience of modern web frameworks and libraries, such as React Router and Express.
• Skilled in boosting software delivery productivity and code quality through prompt engineering with agentic coding assistants. Proficient in reviewing AI-generated output for alignment with engineering idioms and team best practices.
• Exposure to event driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Source code repositories such as GitLab or GitHub.
• You have experience with unit and integration testing.
• Able to identify and mitigate against OWASP top 10 security vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge and implementation of predefined secure coding practises and secure architecture patterns.
• Experience in refactoring systems towards a cleaner architecture, using techniques including abstraction and facades.
• Able to review non trivial merge requests and give feedback to junior and mid level engineers which improves their code quality.
• Take ownership of a task, analyse it, and solve problems you haven't encountered before.
• Experience working as a software engineer in a team environment and are open to pair programming.
• Understand the principles and values of agile practices, you are able to refine user stories into  tasks and see the tasks through to delivery.
• Understanding of how to use telemetry and metrics to triage operational tasks.
• A desire to work collaboratively in your team, learn from others, and share your knowledge.
• You exhibit technical curiosity, resilience in problem-solving, and seek feedback early and often.
• Up-to-date with modern development and operations practices and are aware of the latest trends and tools.
• You are committed to self-learning, showing how you’ve developed your skills.
• You are adept at communicating context and sharing your understanding of a problem with your team.
• You communicate clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally

• You may have exposure to serverless or microservice architecture and infrastructure as code, preferably with Amazon Web Services.
• Regular contributions to FoSS projects or writing technical articles is a bonus.
• Exposure to accessibility best practises
• Understanding of financial regulations
• Terraform or SST
• Agile estimating techniques
• Software design patterns

Job Benefits

• Flexible working
• We prioritise a sustainable work/life balance
• We have a collaborative learning culture that promotes psychological safety
• 25 days annual leave plus every bank holiday
• Company pension (up to 10% employer contribution)
• Company performance based Bonus scheme
• Paid day off to celebrate your birthday
• Additional holiday purchase (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 membership and health screening
• Employee assistance programme
• 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
• Professional memberships funded
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle, Home & Tech scheme