Pod Point

Software Engineer

Pod Point
Apply
4 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the engineering squad through pair programming, peer reviews, testing, story writing, and technical specification.
  • Build and support scalable, resilient software products aligned with product and architecture roadmaps.
  • Develop readable, maintainable, well-tested TypeScript applications running on Node.js.
  • Own solutions end-to-end from design through delivery.
  • Write and maintain unit, integration, and functional tests and contribute to supporting pipelines.
  • Participate in engineering community activities and share knowledge.
  • Mentor junior engineers and new team members through pairing and constructive feedback.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience building TypeScript applications deployed on Node.js.
  • Experience with unit, integration, and functional testing and a strong focus on quality.
  • Hands-on AWS experience, including ECS, RDS, Lambda, and SQS.
  • Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code models.
  • Understanding of object-oriented principles, design patterns, API design, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with agile and lean approaches, CI/CD pipelines, and test-driven development.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and continuous-learning skills.
  • Bonus experience with high-volume transactional systems, payments, rewards, subscriptions, financial workflows, shared platform services, observability, monitoring, or production support.

Benefits

  • Remote or hybrid working in London with a flexible hybrid model.
  • Work abroad for up to 20 days per year.
  • 25 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.
  • Pension scheme with a 4.5% matched contribution.
  • Podpoint charger and discounted energy tariffs through Pod Power or the EDF Employee Programme.
  • Wellbeing platform access for the employee and up to five family members or friends.
  • Family and friend discount scheme, generous parental and family leave, eyecare scheme, life insurance, Virtual GP, Employee Assistance Program, mortgage advice, discounted gym memberships, and Cycle2Work Scheme.
Pod Point

About Pod Point

51-200 employees
Contact me