Mintel is looking for an enthusiastic and capable developer to join our established Digital Marketing team in the UK as a Software Engineer. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for new feature development, stability, performance and technical enhancement for our Digital Marketing capabilities.
Why join Mintel? We are the world's leading market intelligence agency and technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets and aspire to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology supports research, analysis, and operations work of Mintel staff and helps us to deliver data, insight and opinion in a compelling way to our clients across the globe.
Mintel has ambition to grow its eCommerce business, including launching new stores, optimisations to improve traffic and future focus towards performance, maintenance and continual improvement.
What You Will Do:
- Join an established agile team that owns the eCommerce platform and other React or WordPress-based websites.
- Develop features for our corporate websites and our eCommerce platform that continually improve customer experience.
- Participate in planning activities with the Product Owner and other stakeholders.
- Demo software to stakeholders and discuss feedback.
- Participate in testing and other quality assurance activities.
- Manage the deployment of new features to beta and live environments.
- Influence the direction of your team through continuous improvement activities.
- Gain exposure to our full software stack, using primarily Open-Source software.
What We’re Looking For:
- Extensive experience in WordPress development.
- Ability to learn and adapt to new technology platforms. We’d expect that you have experience with the below and can efficiently analyse what is required when faced with an area that is outside of your comfort zone:
- Core programming languages: PHP, JavaScript, experience with Python and/or React is a plus
- Web technologies: Wordpress/WooCommerce (multisite/multi-language), Apache, GIT, Tailwind CSS, Python, React
- Other technologies: Docker, NodeJS, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Linux (LAMP stack),
- Good to have: CI/CD, Unit Testing, Microsoft Dynamics
- Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment and participate fully in agile software development processes.
- Aptitude for identifying and solving problems, both technical and organisational.
- Experience developing, testing, deploying and supporting websites and ecommerce applications.
- Motivated, communicative individuals who really care about engineering best practices
- Desired a good level of focus on the user experience and conversion rates.
We hope you’ll like our…
- Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working.
- Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned.
- Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company.
- Home Office allowance, as the working model will be a blend of home and office working.
- Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy back additional holiday.
- Day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Giving back is part of our culture. You have 2 days a year to give to a worthwhile cause.
- Open plan office with breakout areas, coffee machines, pool table and table tennis table.
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience in WordPress development
- Experience with WooCommerce (multisite/multi-language)
- Proficient in PHP
- Proficient in JavaScript
- Experience developing, testing, deploying and supporting websites and ecommerce applications
- Experience with Apache
- Experience with GIT
- Experience with Tailwind CSS
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with NodeJS
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience with ElasticSearch
- Experience with Linux / LAMP stack
- Ability to learn and adapt to new technology platforms
- Experience with Python
- Experience with React
- Familiarity with CI/CD
- Familiarity with Unit Testing
- Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics
- Experience working in agile teams and collaborative environments
What We Do
Market Intelligence is what sets us apart and what defines us as a brand – literally in fact: when the company was founded in 1972 it took its name from an amalgamation of the two words. We have been defining and refining the Market Intelligence Mix ever since, to offer our clients a unique perspective on the consumer landscape ahead and a clear roadmap with which to navigate it. So what goes into the market intelligence mix? MARKET RESEARCH is not the only thing we do, but it is right at the core of our business. The vast range of primary research we carry out and commission is the bedrock of our market intelligence, creating data series we can assess incrementally over the long term to track trends and forecast the future. MARKET ANALYSIS is the second key element of the market intelligence mix. Our specialist team of market analysts scours the globe for trade, industry and government data, which our statisticians then integrate into meaningful sizing models and future value forecasts for thousands of sectors worldwide. PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE adds micro-level relevance to the macro context of our market analysis, bringing our clients real-world examples of the launches and goods that are driving the numbers. COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the fourth pillar of our work, keeping our clients abreast of their rivals’ strategies, communications and results, to give them the understanding they need to choose the right response to gain or maintain that crucial competitive edge. The magic happens when we pull them all together. Trend analysts, category specialists, systems developers, dedicated account teams and client servicing staff work together to provide our clients with understanding as well as knowledge. That’s our Market Intelligence. That’s how we help businesses grow. It’s why we’re the leaders in it.
