Senior Developer

Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong.

Our Technology team is growing, and we’re hiring for a Senior Developer who will be supporting the growth of feature on MoneySavingExpert.com. Join us to start going beyond comparison.

Why join the MoneySavingExpert.com technology team?

MoneySavingExpert.com is our consumer champion. With 9.1m subscribers to weekly emails, 1.1m downloads of the app and the YouGov #1 most recommended brand in the UK, nearly half of all UK consumers encounter Money Saving Expert every month. Combining expert journalistic research and cutting-edge tools with a powerful user community and a campaigning spirit, it’s the most recommended resource for finding deals that cut costs.

We like ‘T’ shaped people, capable and willing to learn in many areas with a passion and strength to develop their expertise. We work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams where everyone is expected to be hands on across all stages of development.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR DAY

• Work hands-on through all stages of delivery lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment and maintenance.

• Lead the delivery of features and functionality in your team.

• Facilitate collaboration across the team to analyse and break down complex problems.

• Provide input into the technical strategy for your team.

• Promote best practices and effective ways of working, such as pair and mob programming.

• Encourage security development practices by making sure initiatives are built with security in mind from the start.

• Manage and contribute to maintenance and operational requirements, such as technical debt & maintaining sensible levels of documentation.

• Identify areas for improvement and proactively help drive these initiatives to benefit both the mobile team and wider engineering teams

• Develop and implement new features that deliver value to customers, helping them save money and enhance their experience.

• Collaborate with product and design teams, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation that matches design specs.

• Write clean, maintainable code, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

• Debug and fix issues identified by QA or customers, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Review pull requests from other team members, offering feedback and maintaining code quality.

• With support from your Engineering Manager, identify and pursue opportunities to grow and develop your career.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

• A collaborative, informal and relaxed work environment with agile teams.

• Managers and teammates who are invested in your growth as a technologist and as a person. You can see our career progression framework here.

• A collective agreement to pursue improvement through evolutionary change.

• Work on an AWS platform with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines & JS/TS on both the front-end and server-less backend.

• Work on .NET services and Contentful for content management

• Build and maintain services that serve our 9.1m users

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Meet your teams, peers and key stakeholders and begin to build relationships.

• Dive into our technology by pair programming with engineers in your team.

• Getting your first changes into production.

• Understand the landscape and roadmap of the systems you work with.

• Be identifying opportunities for improvement

• Learn how MSE operates, our principles, history and where we’re heading.

• Complete our onboarding, training sessions and all the usual gubbins.

LONGER TERM, YOU’LL:

• Own delivery of new features and functionality in your team.

• Collaborate with all members of your team and work hands-on through all stages of delivery, using practices like pair and mob programming.

• Contribute to the technical strategy for your team.

• Drive forward initiatives you identify for making improvements.

• Ensure we are effectively managing maintenance and operational requirements, such as technical debt & sensible levels of documentation.

• Using your expertise and experience to mentor and coach others.

• You have significant backend experience in .NET framework

• You have full stack exposure with one or more modern JS frameworks (e.g. React/Vue.js) and the related tooling (e.g. yarn/npm & webpack/rollup) and a willingness to upskill yourself in these frameworks

• You’re experienced with automated testing, both unit tests and E2E test frameworks.

• You know how to build fast, responsive, high-performing web pages.

• You’re happy to work across the full stack and have experience with CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.

• You’re able to guide and mentor people and teams to design, deliver and maintain high-quality web applications.

• You have a passion for agile development – you love to ship and deliver value as quickly as possible.

• You love working in a highly collaborative environment.

• You like to take the lead on making things better., * An interview split into three sections with technical ability questions, a paired programming exercise and behavioural questions

• Pension up to 6% employer contribution

• Bonus scheme

• Enhanced shared parental leave – 6 months paid for both parents

• Digital Doctor on demand

• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year

• Financial coaching

• Mental health platform access, Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at

We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role.