Software Engineer, Moonpig
Search
Offers bonuses
1-3 days a week in office
Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
Be an early applicant
Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers bonuses
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people connect and create moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re looking to make an impact, bring your spark and be part of something meaningful – we’d love to have you on the team. 🌙🐷
- 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
- You enjoy working collaboratively and thrive in highly cross-functional teams
- You’re motivated by solving problems and improving how things work
- You have experience or a strong interest in search technologies such as Opensearch
- You’ve worked with parts of our tech stack, including AWS serverless, React, Node.js, TypeScript, or GraphQL
- You have experience across frontend and backend development, or you’re keen to continue growing as a full-stack engineer
- You’re curious, eager to learn, and open to new tools, processes, and ways of working
- You can contribute to technical discussions and help deliver high-quality solutions
- Experience with serverless or event-driven systems is a bonus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Search team at Moonpig
- Search plays a huge role in helping millions of customers explore our extensive product catalogue and create meaningful moments with the people they care about
- You’ll work on highly scalable, resilient systems using technologies like Opensearch, AWS serverless, .NET, and React, contributing to features that directly shape the customer experience
- This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys learning fast, collaborating widely, and building thoughtful, well-engineered solutions
- Be part of a cross-functional team designing, building, and A/B testing new features to improve how customers discover products
- Use agile principles to scope, track, and deliver work from idea through to production
- Contribute ideas to roadmap planning and help shape how we evolve our search capabilities
- Build and maintain backend integrations with our search engine and AWS-based infrastructure
- Develop and maintain customer-facing features using React, GraphQL, and modern frontend practices
- Write clean, maintainable code using technologies including AWS, Terraform, Node.js, .NET, C#, TypeScript, and GitHub CI/CD pipelines
- Create and maintain appropriate tests to ensure reliability and safety across the codebase
- Support client teams integrating with our services, offering guidance and technical support
- Collaborate with engineers and data teams to design and deliver AI/ML-driven features using internal ML APIs and external LLMs
- Actively learn from colleagues and contribute to a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement
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! 🎉
- 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 Brothers. 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
Nickyl Raithatha
(CEO)Previously worked in Banking at Goldman Sachs, then went on to lead Rocket Internet's eCommerce portfolio, before founding Finery, a womenswear brand.
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