Here at Venator, we are working with an eCommerce company who have UK's biggest technology platform - they have a live mobile application as well as a web based application- the company is now looking to grow!
Please Note- this is a hybriod role but will require you to be in the office (London) 4 days per week . You will have 20 work from anywhere days added on top which you can use to make soime weeks 2 days a week from home.
Please also note - sponsorship is not an option here unfortunately.
The role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Understand complex business problems then propose and implement technical solutions
Have input into the architecture, working closely with the Head of Technology and other senior team members
Work with other engineers and the business to improve user experiences
Bring your experience and enthusiasm to our engineering culture
Promote excellence with technical mentoring, feedback, and code reviews
Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos
Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability
The candidate
You have built great products for the web and/or mobile
You have analysed business problems then scoped and built technical solutions to solve them
You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both
You’re excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements
You will be proud to show how you’ve impacted other parts of a business and delivered results
You will be pushing frameworks and languages for good business reasons
You stay up-to-date with developments in AI and are comfortable using AI tools to boost your productivity and problem solving
The tech
Our core technologies are:
Python on the server side, using Django as a web framework, and Django Rest Framework for our API
Angular and TypeScript on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow
Next.js and React for parts of our marketing website
Ionic for hybrid and progressive mobile apps
PostgreSQL for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities
Metabase for analysis and self-serve data exploration
Redis for caching and task queues
GitHub, Codeship and Heroku for seamless code review, integration and deployment
Claude Code for agentic coding
AWS S3, CloudFront and Lambda for storage and content delivery
Cypress for end-to-end testing
Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more
Our tech culture
We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints. We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable.
We strongly believe in ownership and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users.
We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency.
We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.
Perks
Share options
25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days
Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning
Cycle to Work scheme
Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme
Access to Employee Pricing Programs
Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel
Choice of hardware, OS and IDE – you do you
Posh Christmas and Summer parties
Tons of sponsored team socials
Casual dress code