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Software Developer (Applications Development)
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency offering specialist services in fraud, identity, and risk management, automated decisioning, and demographics. We support organisations across finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government, and insurance.
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable backend systems and infrastructure tooling.
- Use TDD to write high‑quality, maintainable code and build automated test suites.
- Own reliability, observability, and performance of key services.
- Collaborate with clients to understand requirements, debug issues, and propose solutions.
- Drive improvements to system architecture, automation, and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
- Take ownership of problems—investigate, iterate, and fix.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong programming skills in Node.js or a similar backend language.
- Understanding of TDD and a focus on automated testing.
- Comfort working directly with clients to gather requirements and debug issues.
- Strong problem‑solving skills and a desire to understand the root cause of complex issues.
- Clear communication—both in writing and on calls.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience owning backend systems in production environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
- Experience scaling systems under sustained load.
- Contributions to internal tooling or open source.
- Experience with large datasets and machine learning models.
Benefits
- 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service).
- Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Private healthcare and a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes, including access to mindfulness tools.
- Access to diversity forums and communities.
Company: Transunion
Location: Alderley Edge
Job Description:
Software Developer (Applications Development)
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency offering specialist services in fraud, identity, and risk management, automated decisioning, and demographics. We support organisations across finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government, and insurance.
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable backend systems and infrastructure tooling.
- Use TDD to write high‑quality, maintainable code and build automated test suites.
- Own reliability, observability, and performance of key services.
- Collaborate with clients to understand requirements, debug issues, and propose solutions.
- Drive improvements to system architecture, automation, and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
- Take ownership of problems—investigate, iterate, and fix.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong programming skills in Node.js or a similar backend language.
- Understanding of TDD and a focus on automated testing.
- Comfort working directly with clients to gather requirements and debug issues.
- Strong problem‑solving skills and a desire to understand the root cause of complex issues.
- Clear communication—both in writing and on calls.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience owning backend systems in production environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
- Experience scaling systems under sustained load.
- Contributions to internal tooling or open source.
- Experience with large datasets and machine learning models.
Benefits
- 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service).
- Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Private healthcare and a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes, including access to mindfulness tools.
- Access to diversity forums and communities.
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Posted: May 17th, 2026