Senior Software Engineer (Trade)

Senior Software Engineer (Trade)

Are you a Software Engineer with a knack for the PERN stack?

Are you a Senior Software Engineer looking for a new challenge? Great! Look no further. We’re on the search for a Software Engineer to join our Trade Alliance. You’ll play a key role in empowering trades to manage their businesses, products, and profiles seamlessly through our platform. You’ll be instrumental in providing tools and services that drive active engagement, with a strong focus on achieving high self-service capabilities for our tradespeople. Why? Because we’re on a mission to be the trusted foundation of every home!

Location: Kings Cross, London or Lakeside, Portsmouth. 3 days in the office.

Where do you fit in?

We’re looking for a skilled PERN Stack Senior Software Engineer with a strong back-end focus to join our Trade service team. You’ll work within a mature team responsible for maintaining and enhancing our trade app, supporting both mobile and web platforms, and managing the back-end services that power it. With solid experience in microservices architecture and Kubernetes, you’ll also play a key role in building out new core Trade microservices and APIs, driving innovation and scalability across our platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects that directly impact user experience and platform reliability. You will drive improvements in feature satisfaction scores across our app, enhance the stability of our members’ area by reducing error and crash rates, and lead the modernisation of our app.

What’s in it for you?

• A business investing in advanced tools and technologies, consistently pushing the boundaries and creating innovative solutions.
• A passionate team with a community of Engineering, Product and Data talent around you.
• An excellent benefits package, including a bonus scheme, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, private medical, plus much more!

We are an equal opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

What do you need to succeed?

• Strong PERN stack back-end skills, this is essential for migrating to a new stack and building out new back-end microservices and API’s
• Experience working in large enterprise or scale-up environments is preferred
• Strong in TypeScript
• Ability to work with cross functional teams

We believe in the power of homes to improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities. That’s why our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with the trades and tools to make home improvements easy. 

Established in 1998, we’ve built a UK leading brand, expanded our trade base, and seen record levels of consumer demand – but this is just a start!  We are excited about the unique opportunity ahead of us to deliver unparalleled growth while strengthening our position as a UK leading marketplace for home improvements and repairs.  

Our values are who we are and what we do. As a collective we are all in and moving at pace. We have a bias for action and are always customer obsessed. We are innately ambitious and think big and bold. And we always do the right thing by our customers and our team.

So, if you want to be part of a forward-thinking, values driven business that is truly going places - then maybe this is the place for you?