As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be expected to problem-solve independently, adapt quickly, and actively contribute to delivering results for our clients.
Location: Jewellery Quarter Birmingham
Hours: Full Time
About This Role
Cake Agency is excited to announce that we are recruiting for a new role of Junior Software Engineer.
We are an award-winning ecommerce consultancy, helping a range of different brands grow their brand online.
We offer services from business consultancy, branding, and marketing to software development.
Our development team primarily develop themes and extensions (apps) for Shopify merchants, as well as mobile applications, which provide our clients with an extra sales channel to market their store.
Based in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter you will be joining a team of 25+ ecommerce enthusiasts and a 5 strong development team
As a growing company in an exciting industry, the role offers a great opportunity for future growth and for specialising in specific areas of interest. No matter if it's developing custom solutions, Shopify theme development, or even mobile application development that interests you most.
If you are interested in a career in software development and are a self motivated individual please get in touch to find out more about the role and the exciting benefits of becoming a Caker.
We also have an extensive Bonus scheme that covers financial rewards as well as fitness and lifestyle perks! Let's have a chat and see if this could be the right move for you…
Job Responsibilities
At Cake Agency, we value team members who take initiative, collaborate closely with stakeholders, and consistently drive projects forward to meet deadlines with high-quality outcomes.
As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be expected to problem-solve independently, adapt quickly, and actively contribute to delivering results for our clients.
You’ll be expected to:
* Provide innovative and adaptable approaches to problems
* Maintain React Native mobile applications
* Build and maintain custom cloud applications such as custom API’s our mobile applications consume
* Be able to adapt quickly and overcome challenges you may encounter while working on development tasks
* Effectively Communicate the status of tasks with other team members including our design, marketing and operations teams.
* Support with migrating data from existing ecommerce platforms to Shopify and Shopify Plus.
Candidate Requirements
Must have skills
* An understanding of HTTP and client side and server side interactions
* An understanding of PHP
* A desire to advance your knowledge and a general willingness to learn new technologies / programming languages with minimal support
Good to haves-
* Familiarity with managing Linux based web servers using SSH
* Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres
* Experience writing one-use scripts to automate tasks
* Experience managing AWS EC2 instances and S3 storage
* Experience with third party integrations using GraphQL API’s
Summary
After a successful probationary period you will be given hybrid working allowances - letting you work from home up to 3 days a week.
This is an exciting opportunity to help us grow our development team and to be involved in a number of exciting projects planned for 2025 and beyond
To apply for this role, please send your CV and Cover letter to Careers@Cake.agency
We look forward to hearing from you.
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With the opportunity to work across exciting fashion, lifestyle, and FMCG brands with driven teammates by your side, we offer a fantastic range of perks:
Alongside the opportunity to work across exciting fashion, lifestyle, and FMCG brands with driven teammates by your side, we offer a fantastic range of perks:
With a name like Cake, you know we love the occasional treat. Expect cake for your agency anniversary, and even the occasional bake off. Our team get rewarded with an extra annual leave day every year, paid training certification opportunities, Plus we'll match any donations you make to charity. We like to celebrate our wins, our growth, and our team, so there are also regular team sessions, office parties, client get-togethers, and the odd trip to Karaoke Box.
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Health and wellbeing
The health and wellbeing of our team members is paramount to us. This is why we are proud to offer a robust health and wellbeing support system in the form of an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and full access to the health insurance provider, Medicash. The EAP is designed to help employees deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting their home life, work life, health, or general wellbeing.
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Team
We’re problem solvers, creative thinkers, and innovators. Come and meet the Cakers, the special ingredient in our mix—it’s our people that make us the agency you want to turn to for eCommerce success. With their collection of expertise across all channels and disciplines, their unique personalities, passions, and quirks, you’ll feel like you’re taking that next step for your business with friends. We’re known for going on regular trips on each of our company update days - we’ve ticked canoeing, escape rooms, and more, off our list so far.
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