What you’ll be Doing:
- Be part of a cross-functional team: Implement platform tooling, automate processes, maximise our up-time, as well as enhancing our design system and core web component library.
- Work in a DevOps environment: Owning and improving CI/CD, IaC best practices, and incident management. Enhance our internal developer platform (Backstage), automate workflows, and lead the Observability strategy—implementing best practices for Logging, Metrics, and Tracing across the business, aligned with AWS Serverless standards.
- Collaborating in a high-performing team: Engage in team ceremonies, including Retrospectives, Stand-ups, Planning, and Socials, while continually adapting and seeking new ways to improve and deliver more effectively.
- Taking ownership: Lead design sessions, manage deliverables, and communicate progress with relevant stakeholders.
- Driving continuous improvement: Contribute to the team’s best practices by sharing ideas, participating in learning initiatives, and helping to elevate engineering practices across the business.
- Opportunity to work in a fun and social environment!
Our expectations of our Software Engineers:
- Drive Meaningful Developer Impact: Our goal is to enhance the developer experience by prioritising high-value initiatives that remove friction, improve efficiency, and empower teams. We focus on clear planning while remaining adaptable to evolving engineering needs.
- High Quality: Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-performance solutions, all while maintaining a fast delivery pace.
- Community Mindset: Engage with the engineering community within Moonpig, sharing knowledge and contributing to the continuous improvement of our practices.
- Open-Mindedness: Strive for improvement by being open to feedback, giving constructive feedback to others, and being willing to try new ideas. This openness is key to our ongoing success.
- Growth: Be actively engaged in your own growth, embracing challenges while feeling supported in your role.
You’ll be a good fit for the role if you:
- Thrive in a highly collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with other engineers and stakeholders.
- Are passionate about finding solutions to solve problems and improving efficiency across the firm.
- You have experience with GitHub and most of our tech environment.
- Have a good understanding of event-based architecture (a plus).
- Are familiar with React (a plus).
- Have knowledge of Extreme Programming best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming (a plus).
Our Tech Environment
- Full-stack, cross-functional teams, working closely with people of different specialisms within your team and across the business.
- AWS, Serverless, Terraform, C#, .NETCore, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Snowflake, Docker, Grafana
- GitHub for source control and continuous integration
- Developing solutions using Generative AI models
- Robust and performant cloud/serverless applications, with a focus on user experience and business growth.
- Backstage as our Internal Developer Platform
How we get there
- Tools and Practices: Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch, CI/CD pipelines.
- Methodologies: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming, and Experimentation.
- Engineering Principles: We apply core engineering principles, including SOLID, KISS, Conway’s Law, and the Theory of Constraints, to ensure our solutions are well-architected and maintainable.
- Agile Principles: Our teams operate with agility, focusing on continuous delivery and improvement.
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What We Do
At Moonpig Group our mission is to help people connect and create moments that matter. We’re an international group made up of two brilliant brands – Moonpig in the UK, US and Australia, and Greetz in the Netherlands. We’re a technology platform at heart, but our customers know us as the leading eCommerce destination for greetings cards, gifts and flowers. Last year we delivered over 70 million personalised cards, gifts and flower bouquets in over 50 million orders, helping our customers celebrate all the occasions that matter to them, from milestone birthdays and anniversaries to new arrivals and all of those just-becauses. We have awesome people and a caring company culture: We give teams autonomy while supporting personal growth at all levels. Plus, we know how to have fun! Don’t just take our word for it, though; in Feb 2022, Moonpig was officially recognised as an outstanding company to work for by Best Companies and we earned a 2-Star accreditation, which is Best Companies second-highest standard of workplace engagement and represents organizations striving for the top. Head over to our careers site for more company info and our current opportunities - https://www.moonpig.com/uk/blog/moonpig-careers/moonpig-careers/
