Job Description

Our Team

We\'re building a Product & Engineering team where people can do their best work that sits right at the heart of the business. We want to hire talented engineers who see WeGift as an opportunity to grow and to make an impact.

We have Python and TypeScript services running across Kubernetes (EKS) and Lambda functions. Our persistence is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB and their event triggers.

We have structures in place from hiring and levelling to how we make technical decisions that will allow the right people to thrive and we want world class engineers to be a part of that journey. We welcome applications from engineers from any programming language that are enthusiastic about cross-training to Python and Typescript.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software services from end to end. You\'ll produce clean, scalable, and reusable code to build products which will have a big impact on our customers.

You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and serverless cloud infrastructure whilst guiding and mentoring more junior engineers in the team.

What Excites You:

• Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput.
• Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture
• Mentoring more junior members of the team to help support their growth and development and to ensure the team is levelling up.
• Being a subject matter expert on technology and domain-specific problems, and taking ownership of software services from end to end.
• Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services.
• Helping to scale the team by leading on technical interviews.

What Excites Us:

• Around 5+ years of Software Engineering experience architecting and developing new services and features from end to end.
• The ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large scale systems and developing API heavy software solutions without the need for guidance.
• A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code.
• Proactively contributing to the continual improvement of our engineering processes

Some of the project you could be working on:

• Integration into all physical stores and merchants with POS. Consumers can spend their value where they want to as we go beyond Gift Cards.
• Continued development of our infrastructure. Transitioning to serverless infrastructure and microservices to enable us to scale rapidly as a team
• Building a brand new internal tool chain. So non technical teams can on-board new payment partners
• Building our wallet feature. Consumers can aggregate the value they accumulate and spend that digital value when and where they choose to.
• Technical resilience. As we become more integral to our customers\' businesses, how can we make sure that we can continue to serve them even when there are technical or logistics issues upstream.

Recent examples of new features:

• WeGift Select. This allows us to give the customer choice, and therefore go beyond simply reselling gift cards and towards our strategic vision of helping value to flow more freely in the global economy. This project was technically challenging due to a requirement for it to work across a wide selection of devices.
• Self-serve brand on-boarding. WeGift is growing rapidly, which means we have to challenge ourselves to use technology to give a great experience to our brand partners without them needing a lot of support from the customer success team.
• Ongoing integration with gift card processors. Right at the heart of WeGift\'s operations, this technology needs to scale seamlessly and maintain high standards of reliability, maintainability and security. We\'re also constantly asking ourselves how we can make this process more efficient - how can we make a capital investment now to reduce operational spend in the future, and that in turn requires a creative take on the underlying technology.

Benefits

\xf0\x9f\x8c\xb4 25 days holiday + bank holidays

\xf0\x9f\xa7\xa0 All permanent employees receive extra days off to help boost their well-being when they need it

\xf0\x9f\x8f\xa2 We have a hybrid structure to allow flexibility between home and office based working. You will therefore be expected to be in our London office (Linen Court, nr Old Street) a minimum of 4 days a month. 2 fixed days and 2 flex days

\xf0\x9f\x9a\x80 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa and participation in the upside

\xf0\x9f\x9a\x91 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa

\xf0\x9f\x92\x99 Pension scheme (3% contribution)

\xf0\x9f\x91\xb6 Enhanced parental leave

\xf0\x9f\x93\x9a \xc2\xa31,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 6 days study leave per year

\xf0\x9f\x96\xa5\xef\xb8\x8f \xc2\xa3150 to create an awesome remote work experience

\xf0\x9f\x92\xb7 Workplace Nursery benefit, where Runa makes a contribution to your child\'s nursery for equipment, training, redecoration or anything else

\xe2\xad\x90\xef\xb8\x8f Recognition awards, where we shine the spotlight on exceptional employees every quarter who in turn get a \xc2\xa3100 award in the eGift card of their choice

\xe2\x98\x95\xef\xb8\x8f Staff perks with Runa brands - discounts of up to 12% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless

\xf0\x9f\x8e\x89 Quarterly team socials

\xf0\x9f\xa5\xaa Welcome lunches, where your team will eat together to celebrate new starters

\xf0\x9f\x9a\xb4 Cycle to work scheme - save some \xc2\xa3\xc2\xa3\xc2\xa3 on buying a bike

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