Senior Software Engineer

About WeGift

We are building the infrastructure for the incentives economy for companies who value richer relationships with their audiences.

Some of the world’s leading companies use WeGift to access branded currency from the most popular high street retailers, driving their businesses forward through digital rewards, incentives and pay-outs.

Position

The Team

Our technology team is a small group of passionate engineers, designers, and product managers who are right at the heart of our business. To give a few 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

Future projects you might be involved with include:

• Continued development of our infrastructure. We pride ourselves on being at the cutting edge, and want to stay that way, for example, how can we make it even easier to get new functionality quickly into the hands of our customers?
• 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?

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software that will have a big impact on our customers. You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and up-to-date cloud infrastructure, and to develop your experience employing high-quality product and software engineering practice.

We currently use Python and TypeScript but we're excited to hear from people who are eager to learn and have experience in other languages like Java, C#, Ruby, GoLang, JavaScript.

Team Description

Our technology team is a small group of passionate engineers, designer, and product managers who are right at the heart of core business processes.

What Excites You

• Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily
• The opportunity for your work to have a significant positive impact on our customers and the engineering team, working on cloud based services from end to end
• Mentoring more junior members of the team and significantly contributing towards the overall architecture, systems design and software practices of the team you work in
• 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

Your qualification

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience developing new services and features from scratch using server side technologies like Python, Java, C#, Ruby, Golang, Node, or any other backend language 
• Experience contributing towards the design and architecture of scalable systems and developing API heavy software solutions
• A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, and delivering well tested, high performant and quality code
• Enthusiasm to join a team of highly talented engineers, passionate about working cross functionally and knowledge sharing

What we offer

Take a look under the hood of life at WeGift from our employees perspective. This handbook built using Notion.so is what we use to navigate both the serene and choppy waters when needed. You might need to copy and paste the following link into your browser as job boards don't allow us to add hyperlinks - https://bit.ly/2PluGyG

• Private Medical Health Insurance with Bupa 
• Visa sponsorship and relocation package opportunities
• A minimum of 25 days holiday + bank holidays (we’re not too descriptive about holidays so if you need more time off then just ask)
• Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in WeGift and participation in the upside
• Pension scheme (3% contribution)
• Hybrid of office and remote work with a brand new WeWork office based in King's Cross, London
• Generous maternity and paternity packages to make sure you get to spend time with your new bundle of joy
• £1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies
• Cycle to work scheme - save some £££ on buying a bike
• Regular virtual team socials
• Workplace Nursery benefit, where WeGift makes a contribution to your child's nursery for equipment, training, redecoration or anything else
• WeRecognise, where we shine the spotlight on exceptional employees every quarter who in turn get a £200 award in the eGift card of their choice
• Staff perks with WeGift brands - discounts of up to 12% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless

Additional details

For this role, we are able to sponsor candidates who require a tier 2/skilled worker visa. We also offer a relocation package to help with your move to the UK.

You can read more about our team here: Diversity & Inclusion