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.’

**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.**

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, Lambda@Edge) 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.