Software Engineer, Moonpig
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Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
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Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help people connect and create moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with TypeScript, React, NextJS, modern CSS frameworks and Apollo GraphQL
- You are comfortable collaborating with cross team Engineers and with Agile methodologies
- Have an interest in the platform and infrastructure part of the frontend stack
- You have experience writing documentation, whilst understanding the audience to deliver key points and provide clarity on technical topics
- Ability to coordinate, communicate and present project requirements and outcomes to the wider engineering teams
- Understanding event based architecture is a plus
What the job involves
- We're currently looking for a mid level Software Engineer to join our Platform Enablement Team
- This role will be focussed primarily on the core web platform. Leveraging your experience of building a Serverless deployed multi-app React and Next.JS platform, streamline build workflows using Turborepo, and implement robust frontend testing practices. Additionally, you’ll maintain the GraphQL gateway and support our experimentation platform, Eppo
- Please note this team works primarily remotely, so we are open to candidates across the UK or the Netherlands that are able to come to one of our head office locations in London, Manchester or Almere from time to time, when required to do so by the business
- Develop and enhance the web platform and related supporting services (e.g., WAF, CDN via CloudFront and GraphQL API Gateway)
- Actively maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize platform reliability and performance
- Providing advice and consultation to engineering
- Contribute proactively to defining platform and technology standards, continuously evolving what “good” looks like and suggesting what's next
- 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
- Our Tech Environment:
- Programming Languages: TypeScript
- Frameworks/Libraries: React, Next.js, Apollo GraphQL, Modern CSS frameworks
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, Route53), Terraform/OpenTofu
- Practices: Experimentation (A/B/n Testing)
- Other: CICD Tool (e.g. Github Actions)
- How we get there:
- Kanban
- Jira / Confluence
- Grafana and AWS Cloudwatch
- Google Analytics
- Clean Architecture
- TDD
- Pair Programming
- Focus on experimentation to validate our hypothesis
Salary benchmarks
Our take
When Moonpig was founded in 2000, it bought into the idea that a personalised gift is always more meaningful, whether sent from the sofa, the commute, or the gym. Customers quickly bought into this vision, and Moonpig saw rapid growth culminating in its 2011 acquisition by Photobox for £120M.
Since then, Moonpig has seen continued success. Through expansion into new products such as flowers (Moonpig is now a top-3 online flower seller) and the development of its own app, Moonpig has established its place within the market for personalised gifts.
And it doesn't plan on slowing down anytime soon, as it looks to expand even further. Recent innovations have included the introduction of giant cards, and the company has also secured the ability to create exclusively branded ranges alongside Disney and Warner Bros. This commitment to innovation positions Moonpig to capture even more market share and strengthen its leadership in the industry.
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Company benefits
- Annual reviews
- Attractive annual bonus scheme - with increased earning potential based on business and individual performance
- Pension scheme where we match up to 5%
- Referral scheme with cash bonus available
- Interest-free travel loan
- Sharesave Plan - Save as you earn
- Generous staff Moonpig, Red Letter Days and Buyagift products
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental plan
- Life assurance paying 4x your salary
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free access to 24h mental health and wellbeing resource as well as one to one therapy sessions via Spill
- Dog-friendly offices
- Access to a broad range of training workshops and courses
- Technical and professional qualifications policy, allowing individuals to apply for a more formal professional qualification, using allocated individual allowance
- Career Conversations with your manager to create your Career Development Plan
- 25 days’ holiday plus 1 day per year of service (up to 30 days)
- Growing Your Family - 8 weeks paid supporting caregiver leave and 24 weeks full pay primary caregiver leave (based on qualifying criteria)
- Flexible working opportunities based on our Ways of Working - inclusive of Hybrid and Remote
- Summer Hours - We finish at 4pm on Friday's during the months of June, July and August
- Volunteering - 1 day - the equivalent of 8 hrs of time to give back - through a chosen charity or our MP Group Foundation
- Matched Funding Scheme - This scheme provides colleagues with a fundraising allowance to support causes close to their hearts
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Catherine Faiers
(CEO)Previously Non-Exec Director at Allegro and COO of Auto Trader and Addison Lee. Was also Corporate Development Director at Trainline and a Director at DC Advisory.
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