Job Description

Purpose of the position

Weʼre looking for an experienced Software Engineer for a new team in our Advertiser tribe to accelerate the delivery of our brand new Affiliate Marketing platform.

You

Working within one of our agile Engineering teams, you will report to an Engineering Manager. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, UX, and product managers to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and well-tested software for our award-winning marketing platform.

You are responsible for writing clean, secure and well-tested code, 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 manager 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

This role is within Team Argonauts in our Advertiser Tribe, part of the Growth Domain. This team are dedicated to serve our Advertisers by building the high value features that they need in our new Affiliate Marketing platform.

Team Argonauts is a brand new team - a mix between new hires and new joiners from other teams. This gives you the opportunity to do more than just code and create great software.

Youʼll be able to support your new colleagues, influence ways of working and best practices, and establish the culture in this new team.

Along with access to the OʼReilly learning platform, hackathons, and cross-team initiatives, will provide plenty of opportunities to learn and gain experience from people in the many other teams across the engineering organisation at Awin.

Skills & Expertise

Soft Skills

The experience in the technologies and the expertise listed below are as important to us as the soft skills that you have. We are interested in people who are open, enthusiastic, and interested in positively contributing to the culture of the team. We are passionate about continuous improvement, and are seeking people who can demonstrate a growth mindset and how they have learnt from mistakes. We value everyoneʼs 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.

Hard Skills

Required

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in commercial Software Engineering roles.
• Good experience working with front-end code, ideally using Angular.
• Extensive experience in developing cloud software using:
  • AWS services - Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Opensearch
  • Terraform for writing Infrastructure as Code scripts
  • Typescript
  • Java v21 with Maven, and Spring Boot v3 Docker
• Understanding of relational database design principles, SQL query optimisation, and proficiency in SQL and non-relational databases like DynamoDB.
• Experience and an enthusiasm for using and finding new ways to use AI tools to augment software development practices.
• Experience using Git for source control
• 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.
• Familiar with agile processes eg. Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience in monitoring applications (preferably using Cloudwatch and Datadog).

Nice to have

• Knowledgeable about information security, able to design and implement solutions with mitigation against security threats.
• 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.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.