Mid-level Backend Software Engineer

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer – Nestlé

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We’re a 40+ strong, diverse team of software, cloud infrastructure and quality assurance engineers distributed across 6 squads, working across the customer-facing parts of  as well as factory automation and fulfilment of tens of thousands of orders per day - in 9 countries.

In this position, you’ll get to:

• Work with a modern web stack and microservices to deliver features and products
• Lead best practices ensuring great software engineering and appropriate testing
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the platform architecture
• Participate in bi-monthly hackdays to build or learn absolutely anything you want
• Build software in an environment that supports your individual growth
• Ensure our customers have a healthy and happy dog for life!

The skills you’ll bring:

• Python 3 (plus Flask, Django or any other framework) or any comparable language, with web experience
• At least one SQL dialect
• Writing efficient and scalable code
• Running Docker locally and in production
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with Kubernetes, event systems (especially Kafka), scaling and running high-traffic software on AWS or GCP are nice to have
• Experience working with fulfilment systems is nice to have

We ship early and often, so we push multiple deployments live per day through our CI/CD pipelines. Our local development environments have setup guides and it’s possible to ship something on your very first day. We like to keep the code review process friendly and supportive so everyone can learn and grow. We also make space in our sprints for learning and development time, and hold in-house workshops on new technologies.

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually
• Annual bonus, based on company performance
• Flexible core hours, giving you true work life balance
• Hybrid role to ensure this role works for you
• 25 days of holiday (excluding bank holidays) which increases over time to a max of 27 days
• 9/10 day working week to enhance your wellbeing without a reduction in pay and leave allowance
• Optional 5 days unpaid leave and 1 paid volunteer day each year
• When you need a change of scenery, you can work from abroad 2 weeks every 6 months
• A £2,500 budget to buy whatever development kit you need
• Health insurance for you, paid by
• Extended maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay. 6 months at 70% pay
• Flexible paid care leave to support immediate dependants, people close to you and pets
• In-house L&D team, with access to year-round courses to help drive your development
• 50% discount on all
• Discounted gym membership

If this sounds like it matches your experience and what you’d love to do, we can’t wait to hear from you! If you’re unsure whether you fit our criteria exactly, please get in touch anyway. And because we believe that diverse teams perform better, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an underrepresented demographic.

Here’s a taster of how our recruitment process works:

• Once you have applied, the engineering team will review your CV (we screen CVs together in small groups to avoid biases).
• If selected, you will then have a call with someone in our software engineering team (30 mins).
• If successful, you will be sent a tech test.
• If successful, you will be invited to complete a 2.5 hour interview - 2x 1 hour interviews with peers and 1x 30 minute chat with our Director of Engineering.

We’re proud to be an active equal opportunity employer. We want to give everyone a fair chance to join us in changing the world of pet food for good. We do this by conducting a structured recruitment process for all candidates, as well as actively promoting our roles to communities that are underrepresented at  During your interview process, you’ll meet some of our team with varying levels of responsibility and experience.

We want to give every candidate a fair interview process and if you need any reasonable adjustments made, please let us know.