Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

You’ll join a high-performing team that’s focused on delivering a best-in-class payment experience for our members (that’s what we call our lovely customers), enabling them to pay for our services in a safe and secure way using whatever method best suits them.

We strive for an outstanding member experience in all areas of giffgaff, so we are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic software engineer who cares about the quality of their work and how the software and services they create will positively impact members. We’re constantly looking for ways to improve and evolve how we solve problems, driven by new, modern practices and challenging the status quo.

You will work in a cross-functional team with like-minded people to ensure this product is successful and sustainable. We work with many teams at giffgaff, including various partners and associates we rely on, to ensure we're active and engaged with our engineering community, improving our ways of working and maintaining a high standard and quality of products we create.

Key responsibilities

• Work with a full-stack attitude within a self-organising, cross-functional product engineering team, using extreme programming practices, notably pair programming and test-driven development.
• Build, support and maintain automated, fault-tolerant, scalable products and solutions continuously delivered into our production environment.
• Leverage your experience and skills to assist your team in establishing the best architecture for your products and services.
• Be technically curious, proactive and able to produce solutions your colleagues can use, maintain, and learn from.
• Know how to develop and follow a sense of purpose. Identify improvements in the software that you use and build. Accept feedback and adapt to your team and the company's current priorities.

• Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Clean Code & Refactoring, System Design
• Observability, “you build it you run it” attitude
• Product mindset
• Good communication, giving and receiving feedback

• Event-Driven Architecture; SOLID principles; microservices; micro-frontends
• Experience in payments/financial systems
• A commitment to make ethical and responsible decisions that support giffgaff’s impact on people, planet and profit.