Software Engineer - Web Platform

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2190 - Software Engineer - Web Platform (Mid-level)

Role Summary and Impact

At Code, we create digital experiences with heart - blending creativity, technology and insight to build products people love and businesses rely on.

We’re not just building software; we’re helping our partners shape better digital futures through collaboration, experimentation and continuous improvement.

As a Professional / Mid-Level Software Engineer, you’ll join a cross-disciplinary product team responsible for building and evolving modern web platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on Type Script and C#/.NET, working across the services, APIs, integrations and application architecture that power modern websites and digital products.

You’ll contribute production code, collaborate closely with experienced engineers and help deliver accessible, secure, observable, performant and maintainable software.

You’ll work alongside other engineers, designers, delivery managers and client stakeholders, supported by experienced engineers while continuing to develop your technical skills, engineering judgement and understanding of modern software delivery practices.

What You’ll Do
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• Build and evolve modern, cloud-hosted web platforms using Type Script and C#/.NET.
• Develop APIs, backend services, server-side applications and integrations with third-party and SaaS platforms.
• Work across the web stack, contributing where appropriate to Type Script and React applications as well as the services behind them.
• Integrate technologies such as headless CMS, search, personalisation, analytics and other composable platform services.
• Help design and evolve distributed and composable web architectures.
• Understand and contribute to how applications are deployed, configured, monitored and operated in Azure.
• Work with cloud infrastructure and services such as application hosting, serverless functions, storage, networking, monitoring and secrets/configuration.
• Contribute to engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality, observability and documentation.
• Contribute to cloud-native applications using modern Dev Ops and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Help ensure platforms are accessible, performant, secure, resilient, observable and operationally supportable in production.
• Work closely with engineers, designers, delivery managers, strategists and client stakeholders as part of a cross-disciplinary product team.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers to develop your technical capability and contribute to technical discussions, implementation decisions and architectural thinking.
• Contribute to the wider engineering discipline at Code by sharing knowledge, learning from others and helping improve how we build and deliver technology.

We’d Love to See Experience With:

• Commercial experience building modern web applications or web platforms using Type Script and/or C#/.NET.
  
  - Essential
• Good working knowledge of both Type Script and C#/.NET, with stronger experience in at least one.
  
  - Essential
• Experience developing APIs, backend services and integrations.
  
  - Essential
• Practical experience working with applications hosted in Microsoft Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
  
  - Knowledge Essential, Experience desired
• An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts such as application hosting, serverless compute, networking, identity, configuration, secrets, logging and monitoring.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, modern Dev Ops practices and Infrastructure as Code.
  
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• Experience with modern web technologies such as Node.js and React.
  
  - Desired, not essential
• An understanding of…