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 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 practice
- 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
- Proven track record with any OOP, ideally Java with Maven and Spring Boot
- Experience in working with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and modern frontend frameworks (ideally Angular)
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP (We are working with AWS)
- Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of SOLID principles
- Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture
- 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)
- Proficiency in developing cloud applications with Docker and serverless technologies using Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform
- Understanding of relational database concepts, database design principles, and proficiency in SQL
- Familiarity with non-relational databases like DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Successful collaboration within a cross-functional engineering team alongside Product Owners, UX Designers and Agile Coaches
- Extensive exposure to agile processes, particularly Scrum
- Knowledge of TDD or BDD practices
- Experience in monitoring applications
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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