Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

About Attractions.io

Our technology helps some of the world’s best-known theme parks, zoos and resorts — such as Alton Towers, Chester Zoo and Butlin’s — to deliver a seamless guest experience and better business outcomes. We already serve millions of guests at world-class attractions each year and have ambitious growth plans.

Role summary

As a Senior Software Engineer working on our product team, you will be a core contributor to our platform. You will collaborate with other engineers, defining and delivering solutions that expand our product offerings and support our continued growth.

We are fully cloud-based (AWS), with our architecture rapidly transitioning towards a NodeJS/TypeScript future. We use an ever-growing array of Amazon services, and commercial AWS knowledge is essential.

The engineering team has built a strong engineering foundation with regular training, knowledge shares, guilds, and open discussions running every week. We believe personal growth leads to a stronger team, and you will have regular upskilling opportunities as part of your role.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of an agile team to deliver product-focused functionality
• Make strategic decisions in line with the long-term vision of the business
• Collaborate, plan and implement cloud architecture
• Review code and strive to improve code quality
• Stay up to date with new technologies and solutions
• Mentor and upskill junior engineers

Requirements

• T-shaped engineer with a focus on backend development
• A passionate approach to work with a desire to push boundaries
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where we focus on delivering value while learning, growing, and experimenting
• Experience designing, building and maintaining microservice architectures
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles
• Deep understanding of automated testing (unit/integration/e2e)
• Ability to explain technical issues in a clear way to key stakeholders
• 5+ years of commercial experience with AWS
• 5+ years of commercial experience using JS
• Deep knowledge of relational databases (we use MySQL)
• Experience working in an agile environment

Nice to have (but not essential)

• Commercial experience using PHP (part of our legacy architecture)
• Hands-on experience with internationalisation
• Experience using event-driven architectures
• Exposure to GraphQL
• Experience working within monorepos (Lerna/Yarn/NPM)
• Experience processing large columns of data (particularly parquet files)
• Exposure to AWS Firehose, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge
• Experience working on a SaaS product

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• Participation in our share options scheme
• Fully remote working
• Annual remote work allowance
• Flexible hours
• 33 days paid holiday
• Support with your personal development
• Quarterly company offsites at some of the best attractions around (our customers)!