JavaScript Job: Junior Software Engineer

During 2021 a total of 18 people across our Information Technology teams (circa 40%) developed and progressed, earning promotions as recognition for their great work and contributions to the team and business – we now want to bring in more people to follow in their footsteps.
You may be a graduate who has their first role under their belt or perhaps a self-taught engineer with a few years of experience looking to join a larger, friendly, supportive and inclusive team environment within a business that focuses on mentoring and personal development, through code reviews, developer meetings and training.
If you are a Software Engineer (preferably Python) don’t worry if you are not familiar with our exact stack, key for us is the ability to solve problems and devise solutions and those that want to learn new skills. For those interested our stack for this role is as follows:
About our Stack
We develop web applications and REST APIs with a microservice architecture. Our stack currently includes Python and PostgreSQL with a range of popular support tools and frameworks. We deploy containerised environments on Kubernetes (AWS) using GitLab pipelines and Helm, and we automate our testing and deployment pipelines wherever possible. Although we are doing mostly backend work, we also do some frontend development, using predominantly TypeScript and Vue.js, and there is a strong DevOps aspect to our work. We are open minded about what we use and always strive to improve and use the right tools for the job.
Being Agile is also key and we are organised in Scrum teams with a mix of developers and QAs who work in close collaboration with the Product Owners to ensure that the critical systems and tools you develop deliver the most value to the business.
Key Accountability & Responsibilities
Hands-on development, writing robust, readable, testable, and maintainable code
Updating our testing suites and pipelines to test your development
Liaising with team members and other teams to handle the deployment of your code

Knowledge & Skills
Experience in software development preferably with Python
SQL experience (preferably PostgreSQL)
And we would love to see exposure to any of the following:
Experience with server-side software, web services, distributed systems, REST APIs
Experience with UI development
Experience with containers and cloud technologies
Experience with Linux development/operations
Experience with geospatial data
Experience with Agile (ideally Scrum)
Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, having grown from 100 to 600 employees over the past 5 years, we are developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city. We aspire to tackle connectivity inequality and make life more digitally advanced. We are bridging the digital divide - bringing all the benefits of ultrafast fibre broadband, directly to homes and businesses across the UK.
Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities
We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.

• Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution
• Income protection & life assurance
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!
• Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition
• Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
• Flexible working environment
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events

We also have monthly company meetings with pizza for everyone. A star of the month award which recognises employees that have gone above and beyond, with a prize! There is also a weekly running club, our very own football team Gigaclear FC, plus two company socials a year, and more.
Our values
Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.
Find a way, Be committed, Do the right thing, Keep it simple.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year