At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop and maintain software using Python and modern JavaScript frameworks, contributing to impactful projects.
- Company: Join a pioneering tech company focused on ethical supply chains and sustainability.
- Benefits: Enjoy 35 days paid leave, enhanced parental leave, and a monthly wellbeing allowance.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with a vibrant office culture and extensive professional development resources.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the world while advancing your software engineering skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering with a focus on Python and React is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 65000 £ per year.
Through our proprietary methodology we harness cutting edge science, advanced technology, and specialized services to empower the world’s leading brands to ensure product integrity, meet regulatory demands, and reduce the risk of fraud and unethical sourcing. Our vision is to be the source of truth in global supply chains. Harnessing science, technology and services, our mission is to create a community of origin verified buyers and suppliers, protecting our people and the planet. Through forensic origin verification, we empower brands to make positive changes across their supply chain - creating real change in our world.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer who wants to do more than just work through tickets. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full stack, contribute to real production systems, and grow quickly within a high-impact engineering team. You’ll be working in a culture that values ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.
In this role, you will build and maintain backend services and APIs using Python frameworks such as Django or FastAPI, while also developing modern, responsive frontend experiences using React and TypeScript. You’ll take ownership of features from design through to deployment and iteration, ensuring that your work delivers real value to end users. Alongside feature development, you will play a key role in improving system reliability, performance, and scalability by identifying bottlenecks, optimising queries and services, and contributing to performance improvements across the platform.
You will work within a cloud-based environment, collaborating on deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure improvements, gaining exposure to the full software lifecycle. You will also be responsible for debugging issues across the stack, supporting production systems, and contributing to root cause analysis when problems arise. A key part of the team’s approach is leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude, and you’ll be expected to actively use these tools to improve productivity, code quality, and learning.
We’re looking for someone with solid commercial experience in software engineering and a track record of contributing to production systems in a professional environment. You should have strong foundations in either backend or full stack development, ideally with hands-on experience in Python and a modern JavaScript framework such as React. You will be comfortable working with RESTful APIs, understanding application architecture, and writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
Experience working within cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP is highly desirable, along with some exposure to CI/CD practices, version control, and modern development workflows. We are particularly interested in candidates who are already using, or actively adopting, AI-assisted development tools as part of their day-to-day work, as this is becoming an integral part of how the team operates.
- Paid Leave - 35 days (inclusive of public holidays)
- Birthday Off
- Volunteering Leave Allowance
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Pension
- Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
- Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office
- Learning Portal with over 100,000 assets available to support professional development
- Hybrid working set-up (Farringdon, London)
Software Engineer (Django/Fullstack) in London employer: Oritain
Oritain is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee growth and well-being, offering a generous benefits package including 35 days of paid leave, enhanced parental leave, and a monthly wellbeing allowance. With a collaborative and fast-paced work culture in the heart of London, employees are empowered to take ownership of their projects while leveraging cutting-edge technology and AI-assisted tools, ensuring meaningful contributions to global supply chains. Join a team that values diverse perspectives and fosters continuous improvement, making a real impact on ethical sourcing and sustainability.
