Senior Software Engineer (Typescript) - Remote

Overview

A Senior Software Engineer in UNiDAYS is a hands-on software development role focused on building innovative solutions to delight our members and drive product success in a fast-paced company.

In Short

• Contributing to the team's goal of delivering our next generation marketplace product
• Deliver impactful features with a pragmatic approach
• Proactively contributing to the betterment of other engineers in the company through sponsoring, mentoring and providing constructive, candid feedback
• Proactively giving technical and strategic feedback that leads to better outcomes
• Prioritisation of the most impactful problems and being able to bring about change with effective momentum
• Communication of solutions/risks of technical problems to non technical stakeholders.
• Championing user-centric solutions with a keen eye on market fit and profitability

Requirements

• A strong working knowledge of Typescript
• Experience with React
• An understanding of Modern Web frameworks, including Next.js
• Experience with unit testing (ideally jest) and e2e testing (e.g. Cypress/Playwright)
• Knowledge on web best practices for performance, accessibility, core web vitals and SEO
• A passion for engineering craft - you practise writing maintainable code, reviewing code, pair programming at times, and writing tests
• A coaching mentality - you help make the entire team better by working with them
• A desire to build systems that are stable, scalable, secure, observable, and performant
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies such as scrum, kanban etc. and the adaptability to respond to the needs of the business
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Lead by example to proactively foster an inclusive, diverse, and positive engineering culture across the business.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays
• Competitive salaries
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Company bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Private health insurance (Vitality)
• Income protection policy
• Life assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Core hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time
• Regular team building activities
• The latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one
• Support for home working for all new team members.