Software Developer

What You Will Do As Software Developer
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Starting Salary: £45,900 - £50,000
Location: Edinburgh City Centre
We are looking for a collaborative Software Developer to join our full-stack development team. You'll be working with a modern technology stack to improve our website, focusing on continuous value addition and close collaboration with our product team. We're now embarking on exciting new projects with the Postcode Lottery Group, where your innovative solutions will play a key role in building the next generation of lottery products.

In this role, your work will directly impact how our players interact with us online. We're committed to deploying changes quickly, focusing on high-quality, user-friendly features that make a real difference. Watching how users interact with our site and using that feedback to guide your work will be a key part of your job.

You'll take an active role in planning our work, prioritising what we tackle next, and developing new features alongside your teammates. It's important that you're involved in creating and maintaining our test suite, deployment pipelines, and the tools that keep our website running smoothly. We value continuous improvement and are always on the lookout for ways to make our development process better.

Josh, Lead Software Developer, Group Tech: 'Our team at People s Postcode Lottery is incredibly open and engaged, combining technical curiosity with passion for the good causes we support. There's nowhere like it.
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**Please note, we may close the advert early if we receive a high level of interest, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.**

About You
Your Qualities:

• Proactive and Open-Minded: Eager to take initiative and approach challenges with a positive, open attitude.
• Empathetic Team Player: Friendly, approachable, and empathetic.
• Problem Solver:Willing to learn how to break down complex problems into manageable solutions with support from the team.
• Flexible and Willing to Learn: Your exact skills might not match our current stack, but your willingness to learn and adapt is what truly matters to us.

Desired Skills

• Web Development Experience: Familiarity with web application development, especially using Gatsby, NextJS, React, or similar frameworks, along with a solid foundation in HTML, CSS, and TypeScript. Experience with a headless CMS (Content Management System) such as Contentful or Storyblok.
• Testing Proficiency: Experience with Jest, React Testing Library for refactoring, Cypress for E2E testing, and Puppeteer for canary tests to ensure our website remains regression-free.
• Accessibility Focus: A commitment to building inclusive, accessible websites.
• Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services) services (CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, ) and infrastructure provisioning using CDK.
• Deployment and Automation: Familiarity with Jenkins, Gitlab, and automation tools like Npm, Bash, and Docker, contributing to stable and efficient deployment pipelines.

More Information
Our interview process is designed to be warm, welcoming, and give you a real feel for what it's like to be part of our team. It begins with a friendly screening call with our hiring team, where we'll get to know you a little better and answer any questions you might have.

If we're a good match, you'll be invited to a 90-minute, face-to-face interview at our offices in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. This will be a competency and technical-based conversation, giving you the chance to show us what makes you a great fit for the role.

We anticipate holding face-to-face interviews during the week commencing
1 December.
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We offer
A Rewarding salary
A Competitive Salary, a variable year-end bonus, 36 days' holiday a year based on a 37.5 hour week, and flexible working hours.

Development
The opportunity to develop your career. All team members have the option of applying for funding for a chosen training topic of their choice.

Work And Travel Benefits
You'll get an Ridacard, which offers unlimited travel across the Lothian Bus Network, even outside working hours

Pension
Our pension is with Scottish Widows Personal Pension Scheme, we contribute 10%, on top of your contribution of 4%.

Fit & Healthy together
Free private healthcare including dental for all team members and covered from your first day.

Your wellbeing is important to us, so we have 24 hour access to support services such as mental health support, physiotherapy and remote GPs.

Family Time
Maternity Pay: 16 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50%.

Paternity Pay: 4 weeks at 100%.

Shared Parental Pay: 14 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50% of average weekly earnings.

Meet the team
Postcode Lottery Group is a private company, fully owned by a non-profit foundation. Our international team works across Europe in our welcoming offices in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Dusseldorf, and London, and are joining forces every day to further grow the Postcode Lottery's impact.

People's Postcode Lottery has been helping support charities and good causes throughout Britain and beyond since 2005. Our mission is to help raise funds for charities and good causes and increase awareness of their work. Players have raised more than £1.5 billion for thousands of charities and local good causes.

About Us
A marketing-driven charity organisation
The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it's a win-win

Our purpose: a better world, for everyone
Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €14.5 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day.

Inclusion and equal opportunities
People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it's our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that's just who we are.