Software Automation & Integration Engineer

Software Automation & Integration Engineer
UK-based applicants only.

Candidates must already have the right to live and work in the UK.
We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

As a fast-moving and rapidly evolving tech company, we embrace the advantages of AI and encourage its use throughout our application process.

However, our goal is to get to know and hire the authentic you - your skills, experience, and values.
We don’t want to hire an AI-generated version of you
. We consider AI to be a valuable tool, not something that should shadow you as an individual.

As SSS continues to grow, our platform needs to integrate effectively with more external systems, operational processes need to become increasingly automated, and technical issues need to be easier to identify and resolve.

We are looking for a Software Automation & Integration Engineer to work across software engineering, integrations and technical operations.

The role will focus on connecting systems, automating repetitive work and improving the reliability of our platform and supporting processes.

This is not a traditional feature-development role or a first-line support position. It is suited to someone who enjoys identifying the underlying cause of technical problems and implementing robust, maintainable solutions.

You will be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining integrations with external platforms
• Automating repetitive operational processes
• Monitoring APIs, integrations, queues and scheduled jobs
• Investigating technical failures and recurring issues
• Building internal tools that make problems easier to diagnose and resolve
• Creating reusable patterns for future integrations
• Contributing to our Laravel application where integration or automation work requires it

Everything you build should be secure, tested, observable and maintainable.

A significant part of the role will involve connecting SSS with external screening providers, client systems and SaaS platforms.

You will work with technologies including:

REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, JSON, background jobs, queues and data flows.

You will also work with operational teams to identify processes that could be improved through automation.

The objective is not simply to automate for the sake of it. Solutions should remove meaningful manual work, reduce errors, improve service or enable the business to scale more effectively.

Depending on the requirement, the appropriate solution may be part of the Laravel application, a lightweight service, a script or an automated workflow.

We favour the simplest solution that remains secure, observable and maintainable.

You will help investigate and resolve technical issues affecting integrations, automation and supporting systems.

This may include:

• Examining logs
• Investigating failed webhooks
• Diagnosing queue or scheduled job failures
• Supporting technical incident investigation

Where possible, recurring problems should be detected early, monitored more effectively, automated or engineered out rather than repeatedly worked around.

You will write production code and work alongside our Software Engineers where integrations, automation or reliability requirements touch the core application.

• PHP / Laravel
• React
• MySQL

Our engineering practices include:

• Git
• Pull requests
• Code review
• Testing
• CI/CD
• Controlled production changes

Automation and integration work is expected to meet the same engineering standards as our core product development.

• Has professional experience in backend software development, integrations or automation
• Is comfortable working with PHP/Laravel, MySQL and…