Here at Venator, we are working with an eCommerce company who have UK's biggest technology platform - they have a live mobile application as well as a web based application- the company is now looking to grow!
Please Note- this is a hybriod role but will require you to be in the office (London) 4 days per week. You will have 20 work from anywhere days added on top which you can use to make soime weeks 2 days a week from home.
Please also note - sponsorship is not an option here unfortunately.
The role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
* Understand complex business problems then propose and implement technical solutions
* Have input into the architecture, working closely with the Head of Technology and other senior team members
* Work with other engineers and the business to improve user experiences
* Bring your experience and enthusiasm to our engineering culture
* Promote excellence with technical mentoring, feedback, and code reviews
* Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos
* Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability
The candidate
* You have built great products for the web and/or mobile
* You have analysed business problems then scoped and built technical solutions to solve them
* You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both
* You’re excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
* You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements
* You will be proud to show how you’ve impacted other parts of a business and delivered results
* You will be pushing frameworks and languages for good business reasons
* You stay up-to-date with developments in AI and are comfortable using AI tools to boost your productivity and problem solving
The tech
Our core technologies are:
* Python on the server side, using Django as a web framework, and Django Rest Framework for our API
* Angular and TypeScript on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow
* Next.js and React for parts of our marketing website
* Ionic for hybrid and progressive mobile apps
* PostgreSQL for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities
* Metabase for analysis and self-serve data exploration
* Redis for caching and task queues
* GitHub, Codeship and Heroku for seamless code review, integration and deployment
* Claude Code for agentic coding
* AWS S3, CloudFront and Lambda for storage and content delivery
* Cypress for end-to-end testing
* Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more
Our tech culture
We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints. We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable.
We strongly believe in ownership and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users.
We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency.
We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.
Perks
* Share options
* 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
* Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days
* Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme
* Access to Employee Pricing Programs
* Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel
* Choice of hardware, OS and IDE – you do you
* Posh Christmas and Summer parties
* Tons of sponsored team socials
* Casual dress code