WeGift Hiring for Graduate Software Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

Please note, you DO NOT need to be a university graduate to apply for this position, and we will consider applicants from Software Engineers that can demonstrate other levels training and equivalent commercial experience.
Graduate Software Engineer
Now more than ever, people want every experience to be instant and on-demand. And when it comes to getting paid, people want their cash yesterday. But every year organizations waste time, money and energy sending more than $20 trillion in payouts to individuals using cash, checks, credit, debit, prepaid and gift cards! Held back by the legacy banking systems, crushed by the costs and complexity of credit cards there is this monster industry still lingering in the digital dark ages.
At WeGift we’re changing all that. We’ve built our own proprietary payment rails that enables any organisation to send money to any individual, anywhere, instantly. No bank account required. No insane interchange fees. We even get up to 20% in commissions from retailers for driving sales which we pass onto our customers. It’s discounted money! We’re throwing away the old model, and transforming how we move and use money forever.
We want amazing people like you to join us and be part of that journey.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
You can read more about our team here: Diversity & Inclusion
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Requirements*
We’re building a Product & Engineering team where people can do their best work that sits right at the heart of the business. We want to hire talented engineers who see WeGift as an opportunity to grow and to make an impact.

We have Python and TypeScript services running across Kubernetes (EKS) and Lambda functions. Our persistence is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB and their event triggers.
We have structures in place from hiring and levelling to how we make technical decisions that will allow the right people to thrive and we want world class engineers to be a part of that journey. We welcome applications from engineers from any programming language that are enthusiastic about cross-training to Python and Typescript.

The Role

As a Graduate Software Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting our software engineering team in all aspects of the development, testing, and implementation of our products.

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What Excites You*

• The opportunity to work within a super talented engineering team, writing, maintaining and testing code in line with our engineering standards.
• Contributing to software design for features and bug fixes.
• Using experience gained from your education or internship to add value to technical and team meetings, working with our senior software engineers to solve complex problems.
• Helping to scale the team by shadowing on technical interviews.

What Excites Us

• Computer science or Software Engineering degree or equivalent industry background
• Enthusiasm to learn and apply the skills you have gained throughout your education or internship to support on architecture and development of scalable systems and API heavy software solutions.
• Experience with server side technologies like Python, Java, C#, Ruby, GoLang, JavaScript or any other backend language.
• Outstanding communication and willingness to master your craft

Some of the project you could be working on:

• Integration into all physical stores and merchants with POS. Consumers can spend their value where they want to as we go beyond Gift Cards.
• Continued development of our infrastructure. Transitioning to serverless infrastructure and microservices to enable us to scale rapidly as a team
• Building a brand new internal tool chain so non technical teams can on-board new payment partners
• Building our wallet feature. Consumers can aggregate the value they accumulate and spend that digital value when and where they choose to.
• Technical resilience. As we become more integral to our customers’ businesses, how can we make sure that we can continue to serve them even when there are technical or logistics issues upstream.

Recent examples of new features:

• WeGift Select. This allows us to give the customer choice, and therefore go beyond simply reselling gift cards and towards our strategic vision of helping value to flow more freely in the global economy. This project was technically challenging due to a requirement for it to work across a wide selection of devices.
• Self-serve brand on-boarding. WeGift is growing rapidly, which means we have to challenge ourselves to use technology to give a great experience to our brand partners without them needing a lot of support from the customer success team.
• Ongoing integration with gift card processors. Right at the heart of WeGift’s operations, this technology needs to scale seamlessly and maintain high standards of reliability, maintainability and security. We’re also constantly asking ourselves how we can make this process more efficient – how can we make a capital investment now to reduce operational spend in the future, and that in turn requires a creative take on the underlying technology.

Benefits
Take a look under the hood of life at WeGift from our employees perspective. This handbook built using Notion.so is what we use to navigate both the serene and choppy waters when needed. You might need to copy and paste the following link into your browser as job boards don’t allow us to add hyperlinks – https://bit.ly/2PluGyG

• Private Medical Health Insurance with Bupa.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation package opportunities.
• A minimum of 25 days holiday + bank holidays (we’re not too descriptive about holidays so if you need more time off then just ask).
• Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in WeGift and participation in the upside.
• Pension scheme (3% contribution)
• For the time being we are a remote-first company, however, from January 2022 we will be moving to a more hybrid structure to allow flexibility between home and office based working. You will therefore be expected to be in our London office (145 City Road, nr Old Street) a set number of days a month, agreed by your manager.
• Generous maternity and paternity packages to make sure you get to spend time with your new bundle of joy.
• £1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies.
• Cycle to work scheme – save some £££ on buying a bike.
• Regular virtual team socials.
• Workplace Nursery benefit, where WeGift makes a contribution to your child’s nursery for equipment, training, redecoration or anything else
• WeRecognise, where we shine the spotlight on exceptional employees every quarter who in turn get a £200 award in the eGift card of their choice.
• Staff perks with WeGift brands – discounts of up to 12% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless.

Job Type: Full-time