Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join DC Thomson's Engineering community as a key player in their significant digital transformation. Collaborate with diverse teams across the organization, contributing to the inception and maintenance of various products. You will mentor colleagues, refine software development lifecycles, and work across the technology stack using languages like React, PHP, GraphQL, SQL, and WordPress. The role fosters continuous learning and high-velocity decision-making, encouraging experimentation and utilizing industry-standard training. You'll be involved in the entire software development process, from design and implementation to continuous improvement of engineering practices. This full-time, permanent position offers a generous benefits package and flexible work options.

Requirements

• Have a naturally collaborative approach and have some examples of working across several teams of cross functional professionals delivering value in an Agile environment
• Love getting under the hood of a complex problem and have designed some solutions in a high velocity, iterative software development lifecycle
• Be passionate about your own learning and always be looking for ways to learn more
• Recognise the importance of sharing knowledge throughout the company communities
• Know your stuff when it comes to prioritisation of projects within pragmatic timescales and be able to influence the technical requirements and prioritise projects accountable for the delivery of robust solutions
• Be a natural innovator of Engineering Practises
• Be passionate about code quality concepts and improvement of developer experience
• Be able to demonstrate experience of participating in the creation of applications by following good software practises
• Be able to talk through examples of previous innovative decisions that impacted the delivery of projects and how you have documented and describe software solutions to a variety of audiences
• Have designed modular systems with clear contracts between components
• Love a difficult problem and have excellent problem-solving skills
• Be able to communicate the solution to the problem and flex your approach depending on the audience
• Have some relevant Certifications and Training which you’ll be able to talk us through
• Have worked in a role which has seen you be accountable for some high impact elements
• Have worked with PHP, React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. (or similar)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams and skill sets from across the organisation
• Be involved in the inception and continuance of a series of products
• Play a significant role in underpinning the largest digital transformation in the company’s history
• Work across varying disciplines and experience levels to mentor and collaborate
• Create and maintain high-quality web-based applications
• Add value to the delivery of software solutions to DC Thomson customers through participation in the design and implementation process
• Refine their software development life cycle
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practises and how they approach problems as an organisation
• Work across the entire technology stack, working with common web-based languages such as React, PHP, GraphQL, SQL and WordPress to create rich and engaging products
• Mentor colleagues in appropriate software development techniques and assist with their development
• Prioritise projects within pragmatic timescales and be able to influence the technical requirements and prioritise projects accountable for the delivery of robust solutions
• Experiment with new technologies and processes & guide the creation and preservation of highly intuitive software projects
• Embrace and maintain our inclusive, dependable, and compassionate Engineering Culture

Benefits

• 34 days holiday
• Health Cash Plan
• Excellent Pension
• Competitive salary
• Many more staff discounts and benefits
• Remote working