Mid-Level Software Engineer (AWS / JAVA)

We have been embarking on a new chapter where we are building out a game changing marketplace that will unite the currently disparate players in the workplace industry. We are not just delivering a single product; but a product led, innovation and data centric digital business that will be the dominant brand people use to find where and how they can work smarter, globally. With significant investment into the business, and with commercial real estate being one of the last major markets yet to be disrupted, we are uniquely positioned to lead the charge.

Armed with experienced senior leaders who have navigated similar journeys in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and fast paced retail, we offer a rare opportunity to join a core team at the time of launching something special. We cater to the needs of all market participants with consumer-style websites and apps, integrating providers of workspaces from around the world, building platforms for employees to find the best places to work regardless of who manages them, and creating algorithms that unlock industry insights. Our strategy is clear, our leadership is empowering, and our core team has deep experience in commercial tech product and engineering. We prioritise value creation through engineering by employing the best current practices.

We are a recently formed tech team, that has been built from the ground up since the second half of 2023. We have been focused on creating our first products that are launching in Q4 2024 and scaling out to the team needed to accelerate our products. The next phase is to mature the products and our team and practises. We value cross functional collaboration and working as one team to meet our company goals, this includes both between the engineering teams, and with other disciplines including product and design. We encourage empowerment and ownership within our teams and decisions being made by the domain experts. We operate a “you build it you run it” policy within our software engineering teams, so each team is responsible for creating and operating the infrastructure that they use in their technical services. This does come with some guide rails, which is where platform engineering comes in, to provide both code in terms of things like terraform modules and guidelines and expertise on best practises.

What will you be doing?

• You will help design, build and maintain the technical services that underpin our 3 Worka products, to deliver a customer experience that shapes the future of hybrid work.
• This will involve:

• Being part of building a team and culture that is focused on data as a source of insight to deliver the Worka vision
• Working closely with your team to define and build services that elegantly scale
• Collaborating with other teams to ensure the architecture fits together well as a whole
• Participating in a culture of learning and helping your peers to grow with code reviews and a team focused mind set
• Engaging in wider product and tech strategy, relating your work back to the customer experience and bigger picture
• Building observability into everything you do and ensuring what you build is well documented, easily maintainable and thoroughly tested

Who are we looking for?

• Alignment with our company behaviours: Play To Win, Own Your Outcome, Solve It Together, Help Each Other Grow
• Have a passion for building simple, elegant software solutions
• Defaults to working in a test driven and automation led, fully infrastructure as code environment
• Exposure to high velocity, complex, digital native environments
• Knowledge of service-oriented development, micro-service principles, and distributed architectures
• Fosters a positive, candid and supportive environment where data and insight wins
• Constantly curious, and keen on continually learning and keeping skills up to date
• Action biased, taking ownership and building momentum
• Experience with Java or another JVM based language and Spring or Micronaut
• Experience building REST APIs, GraphQL
• Experience with event driven architectures, and message queues
• Experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS
• Experience with serverless technologies, such as AWS Lambda, and tools such as Serverless Framework or AWS SAM
• Experience with containers & container orchestration – ideally AWS ECS
• Experience with both SQL/NoSQL database technologies
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling, for both infrastructure and other providers such as Pagerduty, ideally Terraform via Terragrunt
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools – such as New Relic

What's in it for you?

• Competitive pay scales reviewed annually
• Discretionary annual company bonus
• Private healthcare and life cover
• Hybrid working with a focus on connectivity, flexibility and bigger relationships as part of our workplace experience strategy
• Bespoke training programmes and our bespoke ‘Instant Learning’ portal
• Reward Gateway (discounts!)
• Wellbeing Centre
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• Brilliant colleague recognition scheme, with quarterly and annual ‘Let’s Celebrate’ awards (with great prizes!)
• Generous referral scheme
• Laptop / tech provided

At The Instant Group, we prioritise our people and our clients. We are committed to fostering diversity, equality and inclusion, providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment. Our goal is a workforce that truly reflects society and our customers, creating an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered. When hiring or promoting from within, we see diverse experiences from a variety of backgrounds and welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability status or any other dimensions of diversity. Should you need any reasonable adjustments made to this application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively.