Senior Software Engineer – 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover

About the role

We work in SCRUM or Kanban teams, with a strong emphasis on cross‑functional collaboration. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to build robust, scalable solutions that are as elegant as they are effective. We care deeply about quality, performance, and observability, and we’re always open to challenging convention when it leads to better outcomes.

As a Senior Software Engineer – 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover you will

• Design and build modern mobile‑first web applications and components using React, TypeScript and Next.js.
• Build scalable back‑end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design scalable systems and well‑defined service interfaces with a strong understanding of modern software architecture and testing practices.
• Write clean, high‑quality code that is easy to test, maintain and extend across both front‑end and back‑end services.
• Drive quality through excellent automated testing practices, including API testing to enable continuous deployment.
• Understand how modern web applications work end to end, from browser HTTP requests and API calls through to service‑layer logic, data handling and page rendering.
• Use AI tools and practices to enhance product features, improve code quality and optimise engineering workflows.
• Build high‑performance, reliable and scalable solutions on AWS or similar public cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers who are earlier in their career.
• Experience with front‑end frameworks such as Next.js.

Who you will work with

Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers.

About you

• Back‑end experience with Java and Spring Boot in an AWS environment.
• Front‑end expertise in React, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js and SCSS, and testing with Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, and Cypress.
• Orchestration of test and deployment process using CircleCI with GitHub and Maven.
• Experience with Contentful and Elastic Path as content and commerce engines respectively.
• Use of Optimizely to run A/B testing on the features we build.

Why join us?

• Be a part of a values‑driven, high‑growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all.
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues.
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog‑friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

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