Purpose of Position
As a Software Engineer you are part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform. You are responsible for writing clean, secure and well-tested code. You follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines, your code is open by default and easy for others to reuse. You are part of a team and with the team extend, maintain and operate assigned parts of our platform.
You coach and mentor more junior colleagues, participate in knowledge-sharing activities both within your team and the wider Engineering practice.
You have a good understanding of the user needs within your service and work with the product owner and other team members to translate these into technical solutions. You work through the entire lifecycle of a service or product, from understanding requirements, development to deployment, support and maintenance. You show an understanding for deadlines, find pragmatic solutions and are proactive in raising potential risks.
You will help the team in solving the challenges that arise as our business grows and develops; working together to ensure the service continues to meet the needs of our business and its customers.
The Team
You will be joining our Advertiser Tribe in the Growth Domain, dedicated to empowering advertisers on the Awin platform. This vacancy is for Team Raven who are responsible for the smooth onboarding of Advertisers to this platform.
Your work here will be visible to our customers and every change you make can have a positive impact on them. Raven is a small scrum team where your experience and skills can have a positive impact on your teammates and your product.
You’ll have the opportunity to bring new ideas to the team - whether this is introducing alternative ways to solve problems, enhancements to our ways of working, or bringing new insights to your teammates in the best practices for a new technology. With hackathons, the AI guild, and cross-team initiatives, there are plenty of opportunities to learn and gain experience from people in the many other teams across the engineering department at Awin.
You
The skills and expertise listed below are as important to us as the soft skills that you have. We are interested in someone who is open, enthusiastic, and is interested in positively contributing to the culture of the team.
We are passionate about continuous improvement, and are seeking someone who can demonstrate a growth mindset and how they have learnt from mistakes.
In Raven, we value everyone’s opinion and experience as much as we value delivering and team cohesion, and we consider a challenge and commit mindset to be crucial to balance these.
Skills & Expertise
Required
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in commercial Software Engineering roles.
- Track record with any OOP stack.
- Our team employ Java v21 with Maven, Spring Boot v3 for backend development, Docker and Git.
- Experience working with front-end code, ideally using Typescript and Angular.
- Experience in developing applications with Docker and serverless technologies with any cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
- Our team employ AWS with the Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of the SOLID principles.
- Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture.
- Ability to conduct a thorough code review process, write unit tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of relational database design principles and proficiency in SQL and non-relational databases like DynamoDB.
- Familiar with agile processes, Scrum or Kanban.
Nice to have
- Knowledgeable about information security, able to design and implement solutions with mitigation against security threats
- Experience in monitoring applications.
- Knowledge of TDD and Pair Programming practices.
- Experience working with PHP, including building and maintaining web applications.
- Experience with cache solutions such as Redis, Memcached, or other.
- Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis or SQS).
Our Offer
- Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
- Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
- Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
- Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend it on a variety of lunches.
- Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision and / or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member.
- Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location
- Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.
Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.
Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.
Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.
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