Associate Software Engineer

Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager.  As a member of our small team of Software Engineers, you will design, build, test, and maintain reliable software that supports our core digital products and internal platforms. You’ll work in an agile, product‑centric environment, collaborating closely with product, design, QA, and stakeholders to deliver incremental value, uphold engineering standards (coding patterns, reviews, test automation), and continuously improve how we build and run software. You will be part of a Technology team committed to delivering a 5-star service to our customers and maintaining the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high‑quality software: Design, implement, test, refactor, and document code; contribute to secure development practices and quality gates.
• Follow and improve standards: Apply agreed coding standards, peer reviews, CI/CD practices, and testing approaches; suggest pragmatic improvements to our engineering ways of working.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally: Partner with Product Owners, Designers, QA, and peer engineers to refine requirements, estimate, and deliver features in iterative sprints.
• Operational readiness: Contribute to documentation (e.g., runbooks, architecture notes) and support production releases in line with team practices.
• Continuous improvement: Participate in retrospectives, help evolve our development lifecycle and toolchain, and share knowledge with peers.
• Website & platform contribution (where applicable): Support parts of the website related codebase and service integrations under the team’s ownership.

Requirements

• Professional experience building software in an agile team, with solid fundamentals in software design, testing, and version control.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices (code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing) and collaboration tooling (e.g., Jira/Confluence, git repos).
• Problem solving mindset, strong communication, and a team first approach to delivering outcomes.
• Nice to have (context from our tech stack) We work across a pragmatic mix of Microsoft centric platforms and web technologies

Experience in any of the following is a plus:

• Azure services for building and hosting apps/services.
• Umbraco (or similar .NET CMS) for website components and content driven features.
• Salesforce as an integrated business platform (consuming/producing APIs).
• C# and SQL experience to support some bespoke business applications.