Software Engineer (Trade)

Software Engineer (Trade)

Are you ready to make an impact and support our tradespeople?

Are you a 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 Software Engineer with a strong front-end focus to work within our Trade Services team. You will work on maintaining and enhancing our trade app, designed for both mobile and web deployment using React Native and Expo. As part of an established team of Engineers, you’ll be committed to a build-once, deploy-everywhere approach, ensuring seamless functionality across platforms. 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?

• Proficiency in React Native for cross-platform app development is essential.
• Strong experience with TypeScript.
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
• Proven ability to thrive in a delivery-focused role.

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?