Software Engineer (Mid)

We bring together the best in strategic services, user experience and technical delivery using Lean and Agile processes.

Founded in 2010 by Stuart, Cain and David, we help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their users and customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements and new digital products and services (or make significant improvements to existing ones).

The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We’ve been around for 10+ years now and we are 120 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.

Our 3 founders have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning. We are embarking on the next phase of growth and development.

The role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our digital product delivery function. Red Badger delivers high-quality digital products using a lean delivery process and multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams.

The work we do for our clients involves dealing with the core complexities of their business and the technology we employ varies from project to project. 

You are well on your way to having good knowledge and experience in one or more programming languages in both the frontend and backend of the stack, excited to dig deeper into the areas you already know as well as expand your skills into different languages, technologies and practices.

You are passionate about the craft of software development and contribute to technical and non-technical discussions that help shape the direction of digital product delivery. You are able to work independently, as well as collaboratively, on user stories within an agile delivery environment and are versed in modern software delivery practices. You care about creating quality software that meets the needs of our client’s vision and goals, in a thoughtfully pragmatic way.

As well as contributing to production-grade code bases, you will also be proactive in working directly with the client to help shape and move the project forward and, where required, helping to upskill and embed good development practices within existing, newly formed or client/Badger blended cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Discipline Expertise

• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers, engineers & testers
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Coach & support peers

• Agile Ways of Working

• Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers
• Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end working with agile principles
• Actively contribute to agile ceremonies

• Consulting with clients

• Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward
• Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary

Your experience 

• It’d be great if you have experience with 

• Frontend web technologies (e.g. Javascript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
• Backend technologies (e.g. Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Collaborating in cross-functional teams

• It’d be amazing if you can also 

• Work with virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Build, maintain and debug CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
• Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (i.e. Relay, GraphQL, Apollo, etc.)
• Understand, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud based architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Work with and debug data storage layer technologies (MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery etc)
• Support a live system, respond to alerts, diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling, triage and resolve incidents

  What we offer

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes:

• Annual £2,000 training budget
• Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of your salary
• Group Life Insurance
• Income Replacement Benefit
• Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
• £1,000 home-office set up budget and contribution to home broadband
• Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
• Cycle to work
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm to allow you flexibility to plan your work around your personal commitments. 

Red Badger Values:

1. People people
   We respect and care for each other, giving us the space to feel safe and be our true selves
2. Find a way
   We’re comfortable with uncertainty and accountability, whilst achieving great outcomes through shared goals
3. Always learning
   We’re curious. It’s how we learn and grow as individuals, continuously testing and improving what we do, and how we do it
4. Open & Fair
   We build trust by telling things as they are, being open, and seeking to achieve fair and equitable outcomes. 
5. Collaborative
   We are united by our desire to get to the best ideas.  We are generous with our knowledge, actively listen to each other, and are open minded.

 
Diversity & Inclusion:

Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clients.