Reward Gateway
Senior Software Engineer
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Salary: £70k-£85k + generous on-call allowance (£500 per on-call week), additional call-out payments and enhanced public holiday rates.
Reward Gateway | Edenred is a global leader in employee benefits and engagement. Guided by our missions, Making the World a Better Place to Work and Enriching Connections, For Good, we help organisations attract, engage and retain talent through market-leading reward, recognition and wellbeing solutions.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Operations team.
This is a hands-on engineering role for people who enjoy solving complex production problems, improving reliability, building automation and working at the intersection of software engineering and operations. We're building a team of highly capable engineers who combine software engineering, operational expertise and analytical problem-solving skills to tackle complex production challenges and improve reliability at scale.
You'll play a key role in reducing operational toil, increasing automation and improving service reliability, while working closely with Software Engineering, Platform and SRE teams across the organisation.
Core technologies: AWS (EKS/Kubernetes), PHP, MySQL, Datadog, Kibana and Heap.
Why Join Us?
Application Operations is a critical engineering capability at Reward Gateway. The team sits at the centre of production reliability, operational automation and complex problem solving across business-critical services.
This role offers the opportunity to:
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- Work on challenging technical problems across a modern cloud platform.
- Build automation and tooling that delivers measurable business impact.
- Develop expertise across software engineering, cloud operations and reliability engineering.
- Join a team that values technical excellence, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Resolve complex application and platform issues within clearly defined engineering guardrails.
- Diagnose production incidents, perform safe remediation and reduce unnecessary escalation to L3 teams.
- Build automation, scripts, runbooks and tooling that improve operational efficiency and reduce MTTR.
- Use Datadog, Kibana and Heap to investigate issues, understand customer impact and improve service health.
- Partner with Software Engineering, SRE and Platform teams to improve observability, reliability and operational readiness.
- Contribute to service onboarding, post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in Application Operations, Production Engineering, SRE or a similar operational engineering environment.
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted applications, ideally PHP services running on Kubernetes (EKS) with MySQL databases.
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, with the ability to understand systems end-to-end.
- Hands-on experience with PHP, Python or another backend language.
- Practical Kubernetes knowledge, including deployments, logging, monitoring and safe rollbacks.
- MySQL operational experience, including performance investigation and query analysis.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and log analysis tools such as Kibana.
- Strong communication skills and a passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering quality.
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Nice to Have
- Python development experience.
- Feature flag platforms and configuration-as-code.
- AWS services such as S3, SQS, ALB and CloudWatch.
- Experience with SLOs, service onboarding and operational readiness.
Working Pattern & On-Call
- Standard hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.
- 1-in-4 on-call rotation.
- £500 on-call allowance per week.
- Additional hourly payments for call-outs.
- Enhanced rates for public holiday coverage.
- Historically low call-out volumes, supported by a strong focus on automation, operational maturity and continuous improvement.
Interview Process
- Screening call with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team
- First stage interview with Application Operations Leadership and peer (practical scenario or technical assessment relevant to the L2.5 operating model)
- Final stage interview with Director or VP
Be Comfortable. Be You.
At Reward Gateway | Edenred, we want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences because we believe diversity drives innovation. Join us and help make the world a better place to work.
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