Software Engineer in Northumberland

We are Printed.com, one of the largest and fastest growing on-line print shops in the UK. We are filled to the brim with a passionate team who are mad about printing, designing, building and growing the business. In the office you'll find that we are forward-thinking, with a mission to be creative, innovative and to help our customers. We are constantly investing in new products and using technology to improve how we increase our market share and take advantage of new opportunities. Catch us in our production space and you will find a fast-paced, dedicated team who endeavour to reach perfection for our customers. We're a growing company with offices in London and Newcastle, looking for employees that are equal parts dynamic and enthusiastic. People brimming over with new, original ideas that they just can't wait to share with their team and bring to life. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering team as we scale our platform across UK and US markets. Reporting our Technical Engineering Manager, you'll work across a mix of PHP (Symfony/Laravel) applications running on AWS (EC2 and EKS), contributing hands-on to feature development and platform improvements. This role suits someone building their confidence owning well-scoped problems, who's comfortable asking the right questions when something's unclear, and who's keen to develop their skills with support from senior engineers. You'll be trusted to make sound technical decisions within your area, execute reliably against a spec, and start contributing to the team's engineering practices as you grow into a more senior role. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days required in our Cramlington office. Requirements Ownership some experience supporting junior engineers or interns is a plus Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir) is a plus Developing a pragmatic sense of trade-offs between speed, technical debt, and long-term maintainability A proactive problem-solver - comfortable taking a well-defined problem and running with it, and knowing when to ask for direction on the ambiguous parts Approaches technical disagreement collaboratively - pushes back on ideas, not people, and is open to being persuaded by a stronger argument Beginning to factor cost into technical decisions, with guidance from senior engineers on the bigger architectural calls Some exposure to legacy or end-of-life systems is useful, though not expected to lead modernisation efforts independently Security-conscious in day-to-day development (access control, dependency hygiene, data handling), with senior engineers available for the trickier calls Benefits 25 days holiday Plus 8 days bank holidays Staff discounts