Senior Software Engineer (4 day week)

Purpose of Position

As a Software Engineer you are part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform.

You will be responsible for writing clean, secure and well-tested code. You 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 have a good understanding of the user needs within your service and work with the product owner 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

You will be joining our Advertiser tribe which handles one of our most important and impactful solutions at Awin. Getting partners to discover each other! It is of the uttermost importance to get our clients embarked in a journey of building new relationships with possible partners that can better enable them to focus on the business, while their new connections help them drive sales and engagement.

As part of our team, you'll contribute to a dynamic environment focused on building partnerships that drive growth. While our current applications primarily use PHP and on-premises hosting, we're actively exploring Java and AWS for upcoming projects. Join us in shaping the future of affiliate marketing.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a small, focused team that follows agile methodologies, working with a well-defined and refined product backlog. Active participation in sprints, stand-ups, and retrospectives is essential.
• Enhance and innovate on existing applications while also contributing to the design and development of new solutions from the ground up, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Contribute to the full development lifecycle by writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, and continuously improving team processes and technologies through retrospectives and planning sessions.
• Contribute to shaping the technical direction by actively participating in development practices, tools, and technology decisions, ensuring the team remains aligned with modern approaches.
• Champion best practices in development, architecture, and process, and actively help evolve and optimise those standards across the team.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate user stories into technical features and actionable development tasks, ensuring alignment between business goals and engineering work.
• Tackle complex business logic challenges and deliver solutions that address real-world business needs while maintaining high standards of reliability and maintainability.
• Communicate effectively with both local and remote team members, contributing to both verbal and written discussions. You'll be expected to maintain clear and concise documentation, as well as be responsive via email and other communication tools.
  

Skills & Expertise:

Required:

• At least 6 years of commercial Software Engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions.
• Proficiency in PHP, with extensive hands-on experience in building robust, secure, and scalable applications.
• Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of SOLID, design principles and OOP
• Proficient in working with both relational and non-relational databases, with hands-on experience in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture, ensuring scalable and reliable services.
• Good understanding of Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) .
• Eagerness to learn and develop skills in Java and AWS. Opportunities for growth and learning in this area will be provided

Nice to have:

• Experience with Java or any exposure to Java-based systems and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.).
• Knowledge of containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Angular.
• understanding of messaging systems, with a preference for Kafka.
• Familiar with cache solutions. Redis, Memcached, or else.
  

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 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.

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