Printed.com
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer – Engineering Team
About the Role
We are Printed.com, one of the largest and fastest-growing online print shops in the UK. Our mission is to be creative, innovative, and customer-focused, continuously investing in new technologies to grow our market share. We manufacture and produce products ourselves, working with a passionate team filled with designers, developers, and builders dedicated to pushing boundaries.
Last year, we served 32 million customers with 185 million deliveries and now operate in the UK, US, Germany, and Austria. We’re expanding fast—scaling our platform globally and scaling up our internal engineering team—and we’re looking for a senior engineer to join us:
- A senior individual contributor confident working independently while shaping best practices for the engineering team
- A mentor of less experienced engineers and a champion of continuous improvement
- A challenge-taker, ready to navigate ambiguity while building a high-performing culture
Based in our London office, the role is hybrid with a minimum of 2 days on-site in Cramlington. Applications from experienced engineers of any background are welcome.
Responsibilities
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Multi-Project Delivery
- Lead, contribute, and deliver across multiple concurrent projects, from feature development to platform improvements and infrastructure initiatives
- Maintain a high standard of code quality while balancing competing priorities and meeting delivery pace
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Engineering Best Practices
- Champion and enforce engineering best practices, including:
- Code review standards
- Testing and CI/CD pipelines
- Clearly written documentation
- Set the highest standard of excellence, acting as the example for the engineering team
- Champion and enforce engineering best practices, including:
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Ways-of-Working Adoption
- Support the roll-out and adoption of new tools and processes as engineering matures
- Help teammates understand the "why" behind changes and troubleshoot adoption friction
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Mentoring & Technical Guidance
- Mentor junior colleagues through:
- Code review
- Pair programming
- One-to-one technical guidance
- Foster personal and team growth, increasing technical expertise and confidence
- Mentor junior colleagues through:
Key Skills & Experience
- Strong command of PHP, with solid experience in Symfony or Laravel (preferred)
- Work with full-stack roles, comfortable integrating with:
- JavaScript (ECMAScript)
- SCSS
- Twig
- Work with full-stack roles, comfortable integrating with:
- Flexibility for different stacks—open to strong engineers with expertise in:
- Rails, Django, or .NET (PHP replacements)
- React, Angular (JavaScript frameworks)
- Any server-side framework paired with a mature, well-documented modernisation and refactor strategy
- AWS experience
- Hands-on knowledge of EC2, EKS/containers, RDS, Lambda, or similar services
- DevOps & Infrastructure
- Background in systems engineering, platform optimisation, or infrastructure enhancements
- Productivity in a Multi-Team Environment
- Balancing ** multiple teams with shifting priorities**
- Managing technical debt while ensuring long-term maintainability
- Team Leadership & Culture
- Strong communicator – able to influence without authority
- Experience mentoring or training fellow engineers
- Supporting Continuous Improvement
- Long historical pattern of following or raising best practice as one of the early adopters or one of the rare engineer advocates in an organisation
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir) a plus
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
- Mature conflict resolution skills
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback at all levels of seniority
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Core Principles
Throughout the interview process, clarity and alignment to our engineering values will be essential.
Benefits
- 22 days paid holiday + up to 8 days bank holidays
- Interest-free Cycle-to-Work Scheme
- Tech & EV Scheme:
- $1,500 Hourly Rate Scheme (for eligible employees in work zones 4 and above)
- £250 tax adhered per year or £50 tax free per month (for all employees who live at least 10 miles from either office in Tyne & Wear)
- Designed-with-you discounts available on everything from soft furnishings to gadgets
- Staff discounts on UK print services, including 30% on current offer – free shipping up to £60/IPC, Smart Edit & Easystore
- Perkbox variety (60 available perks to try on any given month)
- Free breakfast on office days and a fully stocked drinks fridge
- Enhanced paternity & maternity leave options
- 1 charity day per year
- Engaging team-building events like:
- Summer & Christmas parties
- Street food days
- Office socials
Why Join Us?
We’re scaling fast, and we’re looking for people with character and competence—people who care about our customers, share their ideas, and feel ownership for outcomes. If you fit this culture, we’d love to hear from you. Please share details of why you’d like to become part of our engineering team and your relevant experience.
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