Software Developer

Day-to-day

As a Developer at Reward working on our loyalty platform in a fast paced, agile environment, you will be contributing to the design and development of our core product suite working with Product Owners to deliver software that fulfil business requirements. You will gain exposure to working on platforms used by millions of people every day.

Role

Reward recruits passionate developers who are truly interested in their chosen field. Specific languages and frameworks come and go but at Reward we are more interested in your approach as a developer, how you solve problems. The skills that make great developers are transferrable. If you have experience in some of the following technologies, we would be interested in speaking with you. Obviously, it’s an advantage the more you know but we don’t expect anyone to have experience of all of them! We expect all candidates to have a related degree or equivalent relevant experience.

• Back-end software development in either NodeJS, Java or C# .Net Core / .NET 5 +
• Building and deploying software in a Cloud Environment (we currently use AWS)
• Working in an Agile environment or a solid understanding of Agile methodologies
• Version control (we use GitHub), code reviews and good software working practices
• Excellent communication to both Technical and non-technical audiences
• Implementing best practices learned from more experienced engineers, ensuring work meets basic technical standards and quality expectations.
• Seeks feedback from more experienced engineers to improve work quality
• Recognises the business relevance of completing tasks on time and to standard and how technical work contributes to business goals
• Maintain high quality and standards company-wide, by championing our standards and principles and helping others
• Participate in technical design with guidance, building and deploying scalable software solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Working using agile practices.
• Utilising technologies like Docker and Kubernetes for deployment and management.
• Using GitHub for version control, conduct code reviews, and adhere to best development practices.
• Incorporating non-functional requirements into software development, ensuring robust and scalable solutions

Benefits

• Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)
• Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
• Pension: Hargreaves Lansdown – 6% matched contribution
• Generous family friendly cover
• Income protection
• Critical illness cover
• Life insurance cover
• Optical cover
• Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
• Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
• Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
• Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)