Purpose of Position
As a Software Engineer you will be part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform. Your responsibilities include writing clean, secure, and well-tested code, following best-practice guidelines, and collaborating with the team to operate and enhance assigned parts of the platform.
You will have a significant impact in terms of efficiency, problem-solving, and mentoring colleagues. Additionally, you will work closely with the product owner and team members to translate user needs into technical solutions. Throughout the lifecycle of a service or product, from requirements to deployment, support, and maintenance, you will take a leading role, considering deadlines, balancing effort and outcome, and proactively addressing risks.
Your contribution will be vital in overcoming challenges and ensuring that our service continues to meet the needs of our business and customers.
The Team
You will be joining our Rewards tribe, a cross functional team which sits in a core part of the business. We let our advertisers define how they want to reward our publishers, and we manage transactions using an event driven architecture. We use an exciting array of technologies, including Java/Spring, AWS Lambda, Kafka, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL databases, Angular, Jenkins, Docker, and more.
Key Tasks
- Work inside a small team and be comfortable with agile methodologies and practices
- Proactively advocate for technical improvements and help defining the priorities
- Improve existing applications, design and build solutions from scratch
- Develop code and contribute to reviews, retrospectives, planning and development sessions
- Shape development technologies and practices
- Follow best-practice guidelines and processes and help to improve those
- Work with Product Managers to convert user stories to features and tasks
- Grapple with business logic and help solve business needs
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely fashion
- Communicate effectively in both verbal (day-to-day discussions, team meetings) and written forms (documentation, emails, communication tools) with local and remote team members
Whilst the above is a guide to general expectation of the role, we expect this position to evolve allowing you greater scope to gain both knowledge and experience within the online and affiliate marketplace.
Skills & Expertise
Required
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in commercial Software Engineering roles
- A positive and collaborative work ethic
- Eagerness to learn and work with more than one programming language
- Proven track record with OOP using Java, ideally with Spring boot
- Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of SOLID principles
- Ability to conduct a thorough code review process, write unit tests (ideally with JUnit) and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git
- Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis or SQS)
- Understanding of relational database concepts, database design principles, and proficiency in SQL
- Successful collaboration within a cross-functional engineering team alongside Product Owners, UX Designers and Agile Coaches
- Exposure to agile processes, particularly Scrum
- Knowledge of TDD or BDD practices
Nice to have
- Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP (We are working with AWS)
- Experience with non-relational databases like DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Experience in working with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and modern frontend frameworks (ideally Angular)
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
Our Offer
- Use our company training offers gain and improve your knowledge on a variety of topics.
- You will work on 4 days per week; on the 5th day (to be agreed on with your manager) you can dedicate time to trainings or development, or finish up work if needed but without meetings, or simply take the day off for your own wellbeing, depending on the current team / business needs.
- Remote working: In agreement with your manager, you can work from home or other location instead of at the office.
- Say thank you to colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer programme.
- Enjoy our coffee machines with free drinks, including coffee, hot chocolate, tea, fresh fruit and snacks.
- Taking care of your mental wellbeing by offering access to various mental health initiatives
Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.
Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.
Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.
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