Software Engineer

This role embraces flexibility, allowing you to work where you're most comfortable and effective, be it at home or in our welcoming London, Shepherds Bush office. We cherish collaborative experiences and invite team members to join us in the office one day a week, typically Tuesdays, for nurturing cross-team relationships and participating in all-hands gatherings.

You'll be warmly welcomed into our Bento team, where you'll contribute to the Bento Box product - a thoughtfully designed, subscription-first eCommerce platform tailored for subscription businesses. Our approach values customer insights, data-informed decisions, and caring about outcomes. We encourage iterative work, experimentation, and continuous learning. A key opportunity is crafting a platform that gracefully supports multiple merchants without redundancy, while sensitively addressing each merchant's unique needs.

Our inclusive structure features collaborative, cross-functional squads that are empowered to shape both their goals and the pathways to achieve them. We enthusiastically embrace supportive engineering practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming, fostering a nurturing DevOps culture.

At Gousto, we dedicate time for creative tech innovation and host engaging knowledge-sharing sessions. We're passionate about connecting with the wider tech community, hosting welcoming meetups, sharing experiences at events, and offering insights through our blog.

Flourishing in this role means helping to cultivate a resilient, adaptable, and dependable technology platform with innovative, caring features, while preparing to grow our business community in 2025.

What you’ll do

• Build and deploy powerful new product features, at a prompt pace and with a minimum of defects
• Deploy Bento Box to our signed merchants
• Primarily deliver backend features, but also frontend features as required
• Develop tooling, monitoring, and alerting to ensure our product is robust and reliable
• Support the platform that is already deployed to existing merchants
• Write internal documentation and runbooks for our ecommerce platform
• Write technical designs for our major technical initiatives
• Aid your engineering manager in scoping, prioritising, and planning work for the squad
• Work closely with your squad to consistently grow professionally and improve the squad’s culture and velocity

Who You Are

• Knowledge of Typescript (on Node.js and the frontend)
• Experience with a cloud provider, ideally AWS. Understanding of products including Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and ECS preferable.
• You have experience with event-driven architecture and designing REST APIs
• You are proficient in writing unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests.
• Responsibly running solutions in production, including logging, monitoring and alerting stacks and managing incidents.
• Experience in working with end users and stakeholders to gather requirements and know how to adjust your language based on the audience.