Software Engineer

Role overview

Location and working arrangement

• The listed locations are Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Newcastle.
• Hybrid working allows work from home and office collaboration; the role typically requires two days per week onsite.

Compensation

• Salary is listed as up to £57,000, plus an annual bonus and benefits; the salary pay period is not stated.

What you'll do

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable, resilient applications that serve customers and business objectives.
• Contribute throughout requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Work in an Agile environment with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver quality software.
• Offer ideas, challenge existing approaches, and help improve technology and ways of working.

Minimum criteria

• Proven experience developing and maintaining applications using Node.js and TypeScript; strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
• Experience delivering features through the full software development lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, and support in Agile delivery.
• Understanding of automated testing and hands-on experience writing and maintaining unit tests using Jest.
• Experience collaborating with engineers, product owners, business analysts, and architects; communicate technical concepts and contribute to continuous improvement.

Additional experience

• AWS application development and operation, cloud-native architecture, and cloud operational practices are advantageous.
• Some experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and observability, and performance optimisation is advantageous.

Benefits

• Benefits include pension contributions, private medical insurance and virtual GP service, performance-related bonus, holiday, colleague discount, enhanced parental leave, and learning opportunities.

Application process

• The posting gives an application closing date of 16 October at 5 p.m. and says interviews are expected from the week commencing 19 October.
• Reasonable adjustments are available during recruitment; flexible and part-time working opportunities may be discussed.