Software Engineer

Strategic ImperativesStaines, United Kingdom10 months ago

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to join our development team as we build the latest innovation from Strategic Imperatives; The Fibre Cafe. Built as a cloud native serverless SaaS product on AWS, The Fibre Cafe is a unified gateway to the UK’s fibre ecosystem in use by some of the largest ISPs in the UK.

To succeed in this role, you will be a team player with a keen eye for detail and a creative problem solver with a “get things done” attitude.

Responsibilities

Understand and question the underlying business goals/requirements.
Collaborate with others through whiteboarding and pair programming sessions.
Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders and customers.
Produce clean code and practise merciless refactoring supported by unit/acceptance testing.
Deliver (design, code, deploy and monitor) high quality software.
Refactor, troubleshoot and upgrade existing software.
Offer constructive feedback to colleagues.
Receive constructive feedback with a growth mindset.
Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development.
Share your knowledge by running sessions and creating supporting documentation.
Continuously find ways to improve something, anything, everything: KAIZEN.

Requirements

Must have:

Experience in delivering scalable, fully tested cloud-native solutions, with expertise in AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS).
Strong functional programming skills in Java/Javascript/Typescript ideally with Node.js.
Experience working with OpenAPI and API frameworks/automated testing tools.
Proficiency with test-driven development (TDD).
CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Good-to-have:

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
Experience in serverless event-driven architecture, leveraging technologies like AWS Lambda.
Familiarity with modern UI frameworks such as React, contributing to full-stack development efforts.

Soft Skills:

Strong team player with a drive to improve both themselves and the team.
Eager to learn, help others and share knowledge.
Ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
Able to work on an international scale with a variety of cultures.
A flexible but organised work style.
Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

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Is the Software Engineer position at Strategic Imperatives remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Software Engineer job posted?: This listing was posted on October 17, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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