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Amplience • North East England

Lead Software Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

Remote-first

A little flex time

Job Description

We’re here to rid the world of bad shopping experiences. It’s a bold aim, and one that needs both a dynamic team and a very different way of working. That’s why we want people who can weave their unique skills, experience and character into a global team that learns, shares, grows and succeeds together. Our people are all stewards of the business, helping us to win through care, commitment and conviction – and in return we open up a whole new world of flexibility around where, when and how you work. It’s an exciting time to be part of Amplience. We have new leadership, new goals and new opportunities. So let’s find out where you fit in… And if you’re still wondering what we actually do…
Amplience is the AI Content company that brings together data, performance insights and generative AI. We help 400+ of the world’s biggest brands, from Liberty and Mulberry, to Argos and Crate & Barrel, deliver persuasive content for every shopping context, fuelling truly personalized and connected experiences.

About the Tech We believe it’s important to use the right tool for the job so in our stack we have a variety of tools, languages, and frameworks.

Infrastructure | Amazon Web Services, CDK and Cloudformation
Compute | A mix of serverless, containers, and EC2 instances depending on the workload
Data | MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Solr, ElasticSearch , SQL
Languages | Java, TypeScript, Python, C++, Golang, Ruby

Key Responsibilities

  • Write clean, high quality code using practises like TDD, SOLID principles, and pair programming.
  • Use Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code techniques to make building, deploying, and managing systems easier, faster, and less error prone.
  • Learn, debate, and then apply the latest technology and techniques to solve serious engineering problems.
  • Continuously seek to incrementally improve the tools, techniques, processes, and practices you use everyday.
  • Help build cloud-native systems in AWS.
  • Make sure our systems are reliable and scalable.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

We're looking for someone with commercial experience that has a deep passion for software engineering; someone who is excited to learn and someone who will be a great team player. We would particularly love you to apply if:

  • You have experience building highly-available, testable, cloud applications and services.
  • You have strong knowledge of Java, Typescript, or other modern languages.
  • You have experience mentoring and leading other engineers.
  • You are eager to learn, try out new technologies and keen to share what you know.

Benefits

So what’s in it for you? Aside from using some great technologies and working with smart friendly people who are very generous with their knowledge, we have a great set of benefits to recognise everybody’s individual needs.

  • 25 days holiday
  • Your Birthday Off!
  • Company-wide Recharge Days
  • Flexi Friday
  • Sick Leave
  • Compassionate Leave
  • Volunteer Leave
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Employee Discount Program - Benefit Hub
  • Flexible Work Environment
  • Awesome Amplience Swag when you start


Company benefits

Flexible working week
Work from anywhere scheme
Early finish Fridays
Birthday off
Company wide holidays/offsites
Unplugged stays
Open to part-time employees
Compassionate leave
Volunteer days – 3 days per calendar year
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Matched pension contribution
Life assurance
Life insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Travel insurance
Cinema discounts
Theme park discounts
Accrued annual leave
Hackathons
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Charity/Volunteer Days
Semi Flexible working hours
Bonus Scheme
Employee Share Scheme

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Amplience provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Amplience is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Amplience

Company employees

172

Gender diversity (male:female)

70:30

Office locations

London, UK, Manchester, UK, New York, NY, USA

Funding levels

£30,000,000

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
Saas & Dev Software

Saas & Dev Software

Industry awards 2022