Purpose of Position
As a Junior Software Engineer you will be part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform.
You will learn to write clean, secure, and well-tested code, actively seeking feedback and adhering to best practices. Collaboration is key as you work alongside your team to extend, maintain, and operate our platform.
Engage in knowledge-sharing activities and contribute to translating user needs into technical solutions. From requirements gathering to deployment and support, you'll be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle. Embrace challenges and proactively address risks to ensure our service continues to evolve and meet customer demands.
The Team
You will be joining our Payments tribe, which plays a crucial role in the central value stream of our business. Our team creates an optimal experience with self-service payment activities for our Advertiser clients, and to increase our speed and flexibility on all our payment traffic. We design how our customers pay and partners get paid. Come be part of our journey as we embrace a cloud-first strategy on AWS, where you'll delve into an exciting array of technologies including Java/Spring, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, Angular, Jenkins, Docker, and more.
Key Tasks
- Work inside a small team with a well described and refined product backlog and be comfortable with agile methodologies and practices
- Improve existing applications
- Develop code and contribute to reviews, retrospectives, planning and development sessions
- Follow best-practice guidelines and processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues
- 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
- Initial commercial Software Engineering experience
- Good knowledge of core programming language concepts and OOP, ideally with Java
- Expertise in building RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture
- Ability to write unit tests (ideally with JUnit) and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git
- Understanding of relational databases, database design principles, and experience in SQL
- Debugging and troubleshooting skills, including error handling in Java code
- Familiarity with web development concepts such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- First contact with Agile development processes, specifically Scrum
Nice to have
- Proficiency in SOLID principles
- Familiarity with essential concepts of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
- Expertise in Java development frameworks, such as Spring Boot
- Experience with streaming and queuing solutions like Kafka, Kinesis or SQS
- Ability to touch modern Angular front-end code when needed
- First experience working with Cloud technologies, such as AWS or Azure
- Knowledge of non-relational databases, such as DynamoDB and MongoDB
Our Offer
- Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
- Flexi-Office: Do you prefer to work from our cool office, from home, or in a completely different environment? With us, the choice is yours. We offer the flexibility to work wherever you want within our Awin locations.
- Health & Well Being: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being.
- Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development. You can also improve your English skills by participating in our local language course.
- Remote Working: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
- Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program and show your appreciation for colleagues who have gone the extra mile to support you.
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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