Junior Software Engineer

Job Description

About Amplience At Amplience, we believe in freedom above all else. Freedom for brands to effortlessly create new content, freedom for retailers to do more with their content, and freedom for ourselves to continuously innovate.

More than 350 brands like GAP, GameStop, Ulta, Hobby Lobby, Crate & Barrel, and Traeger have adopted our headless CMS and DAM. With our platform, they create digital experiences that have faster performance, higher engagement, and increased sales.
About the TeamWe are a multi-talented engineering team organized into cross-functional remote-friendly squads dedicated to building highly scalable and reliable SaaS software to manage and deliver content at tremendous scale:

• billions of API requests every day
• over 400 million items of content
• more than 4 Exabytes of critical data delivered every year

Our company culture is informal, with a games room, board game nights, regular hackathons, weekly development lectures, and we take our caffeine consumption seriously. If you share our commitment to innovation, reliability, and a fun and collaborative work environment, then we invite you to join us at Amplience.

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

Here's what you'll do when you join

You’ll work on some really juicy problems, work with some great technology, and with a bunch of smart, friendly people who are generous with their knowledge and time.

You’ll also:

• 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.

This is what we're looking for

For a Junior we don't expect many years of experience. We are looking for someone that has already proven themselves as a developer, has a passion for software engineering, is excited to learn, and will be a great team player.

We would particularly love you to apply if:

• You are interested in building web applications and services.
• You have knowledge of Java, Javascript, or other similar languages.
• You are eager to learn, try out new technologies and keen to share what you know.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity & paternity policies
• Extra holidays once you've been with us for a while
• The option to purchase additional holidays
• Charity / volunteer days
• Life assurance policy
• Ride to work scheme
• Season ticket advance loans