Purpose of position
Working within one of our growing, agile Engineering teams, this role reports to an Engineering Manager. You will be working closely with your team members to write SOLID, secure & well-tested code, implement new features and maintain our award-winning marketing platform.
As a Software Engineer, you are a passionate and innovative technologist with a proactive, quality first approach to development. You are an expert in your technical stack, able to code quickly and efficiently while contributing to design and infrastructure discussions. You enjoy coaching and mentoring junior colleagues to improve their skills, extending their awareness from the codebase to include topics such as quality, environments and delivery.
We design performant, state-of-the-art software on AWS with a focus on Kafka, Docker and serverless technologies, such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. Finally, we bring our products to life with JavaScript-related technologies (Node.js, TypeScript, Angular).
Key Tasks
Key responsibilities within this role include:
- Code development, refactoring and innovation.
- Build new products and help shape development technologies and practices.
- Help re-engineer and continuously improve existing applications.
- Work with Product Managers to convert ideas to user stories and user stories to features and tasks
- Grapple with business logic and help solve business needs.
- Design and build distributed systems using streaming and queueing solutions.
- Work with a wide range of technologies as needed and be encouraged to experiment and drive change.
- Adapt quickly and flexibly to different projects and processes, and cope well with changing stakeholders.
- Work in a small team of passionate software engineers on the entire life cycle of a service or product.
- Develop code and contribute to reviews, retrospectives, planning and development sessions.
- Contribute to group development initiatives and discussions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely fashion when required.
- 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
To be successful you should ideally meet the below requirements:
- Minimum 3 years commercial Software Engineering experience.
- Proven track record with any OOP (ideally Java, Python, .NET, Node.js), RESTful APIs and Microservices, unit testing, relational databases.
- We are curently working with Node.js & Typescript as a backend techonologies.
- General experience with web technologies and practices.
- Building systems cloud-first (Docker, AWS - Lambda, DynamoDB, and related serverless technologies) but any cloud solution experience is welcomed.
- Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis or SQS).
- You are open to trying new approaches, technical and procedural, and happy to touch modern Angular frontend code from time to time.
- Experience working within a cross-functional engineering team alongside Product Owners, UX Designers and Agile Coaches.
- Strong knowledge of Git and agile processes.
- Exposure to TDD or BDD practices.
- Non-relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB).
- Maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Working on subscription or high-volume transactional systems.
- 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.
- Remote Working Allowance: 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.
- Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
- Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend it on a variety of lunches.
- Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision and / or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member.
- Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location
- Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.
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.
Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why
Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.