Senior Software Engineer, Mention Me
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2-3 days a week in office
Turns referral into strategic acquisition
Be an early applicant
Turns referral into strategic acquisition
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Great Incentives
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make brands think advocacy-first by turning referral into a strategic acquisition channel that enhances wider marketing activity and the customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- If you want to be involved in product and technology from the ground up in a small team that loves continuous improvement, this role is perfect for you
- We’re looking for an enthusiastic software engineer who possesses strong expertise in PHP development (or similar) and data, ideally with a proven ability in data engineering concepts and tooling, and keen to help figure out the solutions for how we make our product fantastic
- Minimum 5+ years experience with PHP (or another object oriented language) in a commercial, agile software delivery, environment
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases
- Demonstrable experience with data concepts and tools, e.g. BigQuery
- Desire to put the user first - not the technology
- Good written and verbal skills - particularly with non-technical people regarding technical subjects
- Experience using git, GitHub and continuous integration (or equivalent technologies)
- Working within a multi-disciplinary product team, and experience working closely with product managers and designers to define, measure and achieve product success
- Have the right to work in the UK
Desirable
- Building within a production-strength SaaS platform based on best practice architectures, providing high availability (last year we had 99.97% uptime)
- Experience building and managing data transformations using DBT (Data Build Tool)
- Ability to work across our stack - experience in JavaScript, React, TypeScript would be a plus
- Tray.ai - The platform we use to build and scale our suite of integrations
- Experience integrating with platforms across Webhooks, REST APIs, SOAP APIs and more
- GraphQL, MySQL, and the AWS stack or other equivalent technologies
- Designing with a security-first approach
- Have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a related discipline
What the job involves
- We're looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to contribute to our leading SaaS platform
- We power customer referral programs for hundreds of brands and have recently introduced an exciting Influencer Management product already adopted by notable brands
- Our world-class programmes have delivered more than 6 million referrals totalling $2 billion in revenue for 500+ brands around the globe
- You will be working with other Senior Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Managers and our Data Science team to build features that will delight our customers
- This role will be focused on our backend system (Symfony, PHP) and our data products (BigQuery, DBT, Airflow), but there will be opportunities to work across the platform including, agentic AI (Python, Langchain), frontend (React, TypeScript), the APIs (GraphQL, REST), our integration tool of choice (Tray
- Ai) and all the other tools and technologies that keep everything humming
- You don't need to be an expert in everything - you'll be working with a talented team of engineers, each with their own strengths and expertise and we work together to support each other
- Our challenges are not just rooted in code, but in the complexity of referral and influencer marketing and how that maps to the goals of our clients
- We process hundreds of millions of events and webhooks each month and need someone who can think at scale
- On a typical day, you'll be working towards one of our company goals - for instance building new consumer APIs, creating a data pipeline for a new report, doing a POC for a new marketing automation integration with one of our partners or working with our data scientists on cutting edge AI products
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will be driving technical best practices within the team and contributing to architectural decisions for backend and data systems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
It can often appear that the more companies spend on digital marketing, the less engagement and ROI they get back. Meanwhile, consumer trust in advertising is plummeting, and third-party cookies are rapidly disappearing. Mention Me offers a marketing platform to make it easy and effective for companies to conduct referral marketing.
Referrals are one of the best ways to grow a business and can be the most valuable marketing channel, and the company helps businesses make the most of this channel, supporting referral programs in 16 languages. However, Mention Me's biggest draw is the ability to A/B test, iterate and measure campaigns so that they work best for the cohort they target. The company already has over 450 customers, including FarFetch, Ovo Energy, Ted Baker and ZipCar.
Mention Me's vision to make every brand think advocacy-first, and is supported by its fast-growing partner network. Backed by Octopus Ventures and Eight Roads through recent funding raised, and operating within a market expected to significantly grow in upcoming years, the company is well placed to attempt to reach this goal.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Jul 2018
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and share options
- A £2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Coaching and mentoring
- Equipment for your home-working setup
- A MacBook
- Flexibility in how you work
- Mental health support through our partner Spill
- Turn steps into vouchers for ASOS, Amazon, M&S and more through our partner YuLife
- Immediate online access to a GP
- Discounts at FiiT, Fitbit, Hussle, Garmin devices and Classpass
- Cycle to Work Scheme offering tax savings on a bike and accessories
- Enhanced sick pay
- 25 days plus public holidays and an extra day for every year as a Mentioneer (up to 5)
- 2 paid volunteering days
- Life insurance (including 4x base salary pay-out)
- Up to 5 days of compassionate leave
- 3% pension contribution
- Enhanced parental leave
- A vibrant and welcoming office in Vauxhall, London
- Quarterly company socials and monthly pub drinks
- Harry Potter-style house competitions (previous ones include Bake Off and music videos)
- Mention Me clubs, ranging from running to poker and board games
- A well-stocked drinks fridge and snack cupboard
- Weekly massages
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Andy Cockburn
(CEO)Experienced executive. Previously UK Managing Director of HomeAway.com, where they worked with Tim.
Tim Boughton
(CTO)Previously CTO at HomeAway.com. Have a degree in Engineering from Cambridge.
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