About Us
Airtime Rewards are delivering the leading data-led rewards technology globally.
We believe every shopper should feel great about their daily spend.
Our app is loved by our members (3.5m!) and we're continually building new features that drive towards our vision that sees hundreds of millions of pounds saved on phone bills.
Alongside this, we work with some of the best-known retailers to revolutionise their performance marketing. We're giving them brand new information and insight that transforms their understanding of their customers.
We do all this with our cutting-edge proprietary technology, utilising real time purchase data and AI learning to delight our members and maintain relationships with >200 retailers (including Boots, Greggs, and Tesco to name a few!).
It's a simple, best-in-class experience.
We pride ourselves on culture, are solving new problems and need great people to join us on our international journey as we deliver the leading data-led rewards technology globally.
The Opportunity
Software Engineers at Airtime Rewards are dedicated to their field. Working primarily on our Mobile App or integrating into our Partner Mobile App’s, you will have the opportunity to work on a product that is readily available in the App store and on Google Play to over 3 million existing users.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with experience using PHP and Symfony that will work in an Agile team to provide technical support, and delivery of product solutions for our backend Platform by adopting our Engineering best practices. Someone that will be passionate about building a Product, and working with Frontend engineers to deliver the workload sprints. Primarily focused on the Backend Platform, the position will assist in refinement of all aspects of product development with a strong focus on Backend and Quality. You will be responsible for helping in the success of a sprint as part of the SDLC, by ensuring the sprint remains unblocked.
Engineering is both a discipline and a mindset. With the use of PHP 8, the ideal candidate will be able to come in and help us apply best industry practices in development, understanding of architecture, follow coding standards, and ideally with a TDD mindset. Coach our more junior engineers in using our tools and not be afraid to experiment with emerging technologies.
This role would be suitable for someone that enjoys responsibility and autonomy, is capable of delivering as an individual, and assisting colleagues to ensure sprint goals are met.
Requirements
A passion for the industry, and someone that wants to keep up to date with an ever changing digital age, that is excited about working for a FinTech company.
* Experienced with PHP 8
* Experienced working with APIs
* Experience building SDKs and integrating 3rd party
* Working with large datasets
* Data security and its importance
* Experienced writing and implementing unit and integration tests
* Have an engineering mindset
* Understanding of Microservice design and development
You’ll have some experience using tools such as
* Experience with patterns such as MVC, MVVM and so on
* SQL database experience (MySQL, Postgres, MS-SQL)
* NoSQL experience (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra)
* Package management (npm, NuGet, etc.)
* Event driven systems
* Git source control
* AWS - we are mostly using serverless & docker here
* Infrastructure as code
Employee Benefits
* Share options
* 23 days annual leave, plus one for each year served (capped at 28).
* Birthday leave.
* Learning & development budget / time allocation
* Flexible start & finish hours 06:30 - 10:30am
* Life assurance at 5x salary
* Health cash plan
* Virtual GP appointments for you and your family
* 24/7 helpline for physical and mental health support, counselling, and other wellbeing resources
* Private Medical Insurance
* Hybrid working between home and office
* City centre location with brand new fit out (when in the office)
* Buy a holiday scheme
* Charity day
* Charity contribution
* Professional accreditation funding
* Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave pay
* Electric car scheme
* Workplace Nursery scheme