You’ll join an established team whose mission is to empower members (that’s what we call our lovely customers) with a secure and reliable identity experience - making it effortless to register, authenticate, and manage their personal information whilst ensuring privacy and security.

We strive for an outstanding member experience in all areas of giffgaff, so we are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic software engineer who cares about the quality of their work and how the software and services they create will positively impact members. We’re constantly looking for ways to improve and evolve how we solve problems, driven by new, modern practices and challenging the status quo.

You will work in a cross-functional team with like-minded people to ensure this product is successful and sustainable. We work with many teams at giffgaff, including various partners and associates we rely on, to ensure we're active and engaged with our engineering community, improving our ways of working and maintaining a high standard and quality of products we create.

Key responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers with a full-stack attitude within a self-organising, cross functional product engineering team using extreme programming practices - notably pair programming and test-driven development.
Build, support and maintain automated, fault-tolerant, scalable products and solutions that are continuously delivered into our production environment.
Leverage your experience and skills to assist your team in establishing the best architecture for your products and services.
Be technically curious, tackling problems without giving up, and producing solutions that less-experienced engineers can use, maintain, and learn from.
Know how to develop and follow a sense of purpose. Be willing to point out, own, and fix things that are broken about our company and in your own career track.
Be a champion for our engineering principles and a leader in team culture, driving great behaviours and practices in your team.
Work with your other engineering lead colleagues to drive the technical direction and innovation, encouraging collaboration and excellence.

Our tech stack

Server-side: Java, Maven, Spring Boot, JUnit.
Client-Side: Typescript, Next.js, React and various React ecosystem tools and libraries
Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.

However, you should be comfortable using a variety of frameworks, languages, and tools and be happy to learn new skills when the need arises.

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