Senior Software Engineer

• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and work with colleagues, stakeholders and third parties to align on requirements and deliver a user experience
• Full lifecycle development of RESTful APIs and web apps which can operate at scale on AWS
• Appreciate the benefits of TDD/BDD, ensuring all code is tested and reviewed to the highest standards
• Adapt quickly to changing environments, concepts and emerging technologies to assist in the future roadmap of our products
• Understand performance tuning and optimisation, and how to diagnose technical issues across local, pre-release and production environments running on AWS
• Operate a DevOps culture and are responsible for developing, deploying, operating and monitoring our team’s deliverables
• Set the technical standard for the team
• offering mentoring and support to your team-mates

• Highly skilled and proficient coding in PHP
• Strong skills in adjacent areas such as TypeScript, React, JavaScript or Python
• Deep technical understanding of MySQL and relational databases, particularly database performance tuning
• Knowledge of best practises around Modern Software Engineering, CI/CD, DORA metrics
• Experience of troubleshooting and fixing performance issues in a full-stack application
• Experience of software architecture and presenting technical designs
• Excellent communicator with a self-starter attitude and comfort working autonomously
• Demonstrable expertise and understanding of API development/design and experience interfacing with disparate systems
• Applicable understanding of software security, common exploits and secure development practices, including the OWASP Top 10
• Proven and demonstrable understanding of testing methodologies and frameworks
• Commercial experience with AWS and IaC (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation)
• Commercial experience with Linux, Docker, Docker Compose, Git and DynamoDB

A desire and willingness to learn other languages in particular Go

A rewarding working environment within a collaborative, supportive and inclusive team