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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 : We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing by offering you a four-day Flexi-Week (with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. Flexi-Office : We offer an international cultu