Senior Software Engineer, Moonpig
Discover
Offers Bonuses
Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
Open for applications
Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Offers Bonuses
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help people connect and create moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- Good engineering comes first - You’ll have a great technical knowledge base and the experience to know what works and what doesn’t. We expect you to apply these skills in making the right decisions and applying best practices wherever possible
- Technical mentoring and leadership - You’ll be collaborative, inclusive and spreading knowledge wherever possible. People will be looking up to you for technical guidance and part of your role will be to help them on that journey. You will also be responsible for creating the right forums to drive engineering principles and practices across all of engineering. You have the autonomy to drive decisions, but it’s your responsibility to ensure everyone is involved
- Community Mindset - Engage with the engineering community within Moonpig, sharing knowledge and contributing to the continuous improvement of our practices
- Culture and Advocacy - You will play a key role in contributing to a supportive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture. This includes encouraging knowledge sharing, creating opportunities for collaboration and learning, and helping to represent and advocate for our values both within the organisation and in the wider community. This is important to us because we believe in growing and succeeding together
- You thrive in highly collaborative environments and enjoy working closely with other engineers
- You value pairing and mobbing as part of building high-performing teams
- You’re passionate about problem-solving and continuously improving processes
- You care deeply about writing clean, maintainable code and applying best practices such as TDD and iterative development
- You enjoy sharing knowledge and mentoring or coaching other engineers
- You communicate clearly and confidently, adapting your style for technical and non-technical audiences
- You have strong experience with most of our tech stack, including AWS serverless, React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and Terraform
What the job involves
- You’ll work on highly scalable, resilient systems using AWS serverless and modern React-based technologies, building customer-facing experiences that really matter
- Working closely with multiple teams across Moonpig, this role offers the chance to learn quickly, shape ideas, and deliver high-quality features at scale
- Be part of a cross-functional team designing, implementing, and A/B testing new features to improve the customer experience
- Use agile principles to scope, track, and deliver work effectively
- Contribute to ideation and roadmap planning, sharing ideas to improve how we serve our customers
- Own back-end integrations with our content engine, building and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure
- Build and maintain customer-facing front-end features using React and GraphQL
- Write clean, well-structured code using AWS, Terraform, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, and GitHub for source control and CI/CD
- Build appropriate tests to ensure code safety and quality across the codebase
- Apply and champion software engineering best practices within the team
- Work closely with client teams to support their integration with our services, providing technical guidance and tailored solutions
- Actively coach and support colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Engage with the wider Moonpig engineering community, championing best practices across teams
Application process
- Stage 1: Recruiter Screening Call 15-30mins
- Stage 2: Take home tech test
- Stage 3: Pairing interview 60-90mins
- Stage 4: System design interview 60mins
- Stage 5: Final culture/team fit interview 30mins
- Offer! 🎉
- Please note: Our interview process may vary depending on the specific role, hiring team availability, or other business needs. We aim to keep candidates informed of any changes throughout the process
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
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.
Share this job
View 13 more jobs at Moonpig