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Virgin Media O2 is at the start of a new era. As one of the UK’s largest businesses, they are powered by an epic, diverse and high-performing team that provide customers with a range of services they love to use and rely on every day. Make their customers your priority and they’ll make you theirs. With incredible job opportunities, unbelievable perks and an inclusive can-do culture, are you ready to be part of the change?
Job description
A bit about giffgaff:
Do you want to join a telecoms company that’s up to good? At giffgaff they do mobile differently. They call out the bad and find a better way. They're laser-focused on flexibility, value and mutual good.
And they're so proud to be a certified B Corp. This means they've joined a network of more than 1,000 UK companies, who want to make a positive impact on people and the planet. Working at giffgaff is something you could be proud of too.
You’ll get the best of both worlds, the energy and fast pace of giffgaff, plus all the benefits that come with being part of their parent company, Virgin Media O2.
Their business model is unique. They work with their members (our customers) to understand their needs in all areas of the business. They love this highly collaborative approach. Over the past few years their member base has grown steadily, and they're still going. They're always looking to acquire new members, and to do that they need the best people in their team.
Their bright and modern gaff is in Uxbridge, in leafy West London. But if commuting isn’t your favourite, most of their roles can be hybrid or work from home, or anywhere in between. If you like coming in, you’ll always find some office buddies. And if you like big occasions, they really bring the office to life monthly for their themed culture days. Plus all their giffgaffers come together at their legendary giffgaff summer, birthday and Christmas celebrations.
The role and the team:
Software engineering is at the heart of what they do here at giffgaff - their agile engineering teams build and support a set of applications and services that combined create their unique user experience on the giffgaff website, enable their internal teams to work in the most productive and efficient ways and enable a whole range of awesome features via modern APIs.
The quality and maintainability of their software is very important for us, they are looking for engineers with real world experience, especially in terms of the whole development lifecycle.
You will help them design and implement tightly focussed APIs, services and user interfaces and, together with your team, you will support them in production. They want you to share your opinions on how they are doing things - and help them get better!
Key responsibilities:
Work with a full-stack attitude within a self-organising, cross functional product engineering team using extreme programming practices - notably pair programming and test-driven development
Build, support and maintain automated, fault-tolerant, scalable products and solutions that are continuously delivered into their production environment
Be technically curious, tackling problems without giving up, and producing solutions that less-experienced engineers can use, maintain, and learn from
Accountable for:
You’ll have to make tough decisions, implement best practice and provide compromises when situations are not ideal. Oh and you’ll need to explain that to people. Not just the technical ones. Because they work in product teams where not everyone is a techie. It’s fun, you get closer to the business and know more about why they do what they do, not just how.
Their core technologies are Java, PHP & Python & React, and they like their engineers to be XP developers with a full-stack attitude. They're looking for passionate programmers who are comfortable with using a variety of frameworks, languages & tools and are happy to pick up new skills when the need arises.
Skills, experience and attitudes:
Essential Skills: Reading & Writing Code, Debugging & Troubleshooting, IDE & OS Basics, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Clean Code & Refactoring, Version Control
Desirable Skills: CI / CD, Algorithms & Data Structures,DI / IoC, Mocks & Stubs, Alerting & Monitoring, Functional & Non-Functional Testing, SOLID Principles, Containerisation & Networking Basics, Twelve Factor App Design, Solution Architecture
Plus competency in 3 or more of the following:
Client-Side Engineering: CSS3, Cypress, ECMAScript (ES6+), HTML5, Jest, React & React Native, SASS, TypeScript
Server-Side Engineering: Java 8 with Maven & Spring, JUnit, NodeJS, PHP with Laravel or Zend, Python
Additional Technology: Apache & NGINX, AWS, Jenkins, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis & Oracle, Docker & Kubernetes, ElasticSearch & Kibana, Grafana & Prometheus, Kinesis
Their commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
At giffgaff they want to challenge the old way of doing things. People, and the way they work, define their culture and they encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to the gaff. That's why they believe in creating an equitable, fairer, more inclusive business that champions different ideas and perspectives. They may be sort-of-small but they're big on that caring, sharing thing & strive to create a supportive culture.
As a lean organisation, their team is built of a diverse, spirited range of people who are multi-skilled, highly motivated and flexible.
In return for your outstanding efforts, you'll be rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent benefits. They believe that hard work should be supported and recognised.
If this sounds like you, they'd love to hear from you.
