Senior Software Engineer

Vo Co Vo  specialises in innovative communication solutions tailored for businesses, particularly within the retail sector. Our flagship products are designed to create a connected store experience, facilitating seamless communication among retail staff to enhance efficiency and elevate customer service. We empower teams to collaborate effortlessly and achieve their retail goals. You’ve probably already seen us in action, we’re trusted by Tesco, Asda, Dunelm and Iceland, just to name a few.

With over 250,000 users across more than 10,000 locations in 21+ countries, and recognition as one of the top 100 best small-to-medium size businesses to work for, join us on our journey!

At Vo Co Vo , our software engineering teams develop our Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that run on our cloud computing platform, and the software that runs on our large estate of hardware appliances on prem at our customers’ stores.

As Senior Software Engineer, you will join a team focused on building the services and tools that facilitate the management of customer estates at scale, reducing the time and cost of installation and ongoing maintenance of on prem equipment across our whole estate.

This team provide tools for our Customer Support team, channel partners/distributors and retail customers, enabling them to install, configure, maintain and update the firmware and software deployed in stores. The nature of the work you will do spans the full stack from the user interface within the cloud service to the computing hardware in each store.

Please note, to apply for this position you must be based in the UK and have the legal right to work in the UK. This role is largely remote but would require visits to our Oxfordshire or Cheltenham offices approximately once a month for team meet-ups/key meetings.

The following skills are highly desirable but we do not expect you to have them all:

• Strong hands on experience with Backend Node.js/Typescript, with experience of impacting important projects in a Senior position and building scalable, reliable backend services.
• Full stack engineering experience utilising modern front end development tools and libraries such as React.
• Proven ability to design, build and integrate HTTP-based APIs.
• Familiarity with Agile ways of working, including CI/CD practices that support fast, high-quality delivery.
• Experience across the full software lifecycle, from design and development through to testing and ongoing maintenance.
• Cloud experience (Azure cloud services), although experience with any cloud technology is appreciated.
• A good level of familiarity with Linux OS.
• Hands on design and operational experience of SQL and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with container based development workflows and automation (Docker/K8s).
• Experience with authentication models.
• Great communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear manner (both verbally and in writing).
• An advocate for high technical standards, you ll be passionate about consistently setting and maintaining high standards for code quality, architecture and best practices.
• You have in-depth knowledge of your discipline and are able to operate independently, making your own judgments about when to consult the Technical Lead and other colleagues.
• The ability to influence technical direction through thoughtful discussion, evidence and collaboration.
• A passion for sharing knowledge and supporting the growth of other team members.

• Experience working with fleets of IoT hardware, or equivalent challenges of remote systems.
• Exposure to messaging protocols such as MQTT.
• Writing or integrating authentication and account systems like OAuth2, SAML, LDAP & AD.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), using tools such as Terraform.
• An understanding of Microservice and Monolith patterns and migration strategies (previous experience of undertaking migrations would be desirable).
• Experience with remote device software updating tools, such as Mender.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and state machines.

• Design and develop robust and scalable Typescript/Java script applications to…