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Senior Software Engineer | 📍London – Hybrid (2 days per week in the office) | 💰Competitive Salary + Benefits
**Buyagift** and Red Letter Days **are the UK’s leading gift experience provider, celebrated for turning special moments into unforgettable memories. With a curated range of over 4,000 experiences—from luxury spa days and adrenaline-fuelled adventures to gourmet treats and once-in-a-lifetime trips—we make it effortless to deliver joy.
As part of the Moonpig Group, our vision is to become the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market. Our mission: to spread happiness through thoughtful, memory-making experiences. People are at the heart of everything we do. Since joining the group in 2022, we’ve embraced bold ideas, shared values, and a relentless passion for impact. Here, you’ll help redefine meaningful connections and shape products that create lasting milestones.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and refine our full-stack applications, ensuring seamless booking journeys for our customers across Hotels, gourmet experiences, and Days Out. You’ll play a pivotal role in building, optimising, and maintaining technology that helps UK customers discover, book, and savour unforgettable moments—all while working with cutting-edge technologies and thriving teams.
Projecting beyond bare functionality, this role is for someone passionate about solving technical challenges, driving meaningful solutions, and adding value to millions of users. Collaboration is key; expect opportunities to influence engineering direction alongside product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams.
Technologies: TypeScript, React, .NET Core, Azure, C#
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-performance software solutions to enhance our online booking journeys and customer experience.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align technical work with business goals and deliver high-impact features.
- Shape technical architecture, champion best practices in code quality and system reliability, and drive continuous improvement across engineering practices.
- Develop reusable, maintainable code, including APIs, microservices, and frontend components.
- Lead technical discussions, contribute to scalable database solutions, and ensure system observability through monitoring tools like Application Insights.
- Participate in pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing to uphold engineering excellence.
- Innovate with new tools and automation where they improve efficiency, reliability, or developer experience.
- Champion DevOps and CI/CD best practices to streamline deployments.
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About You
Essential
✅ 3+ years’ commercial experience building full-stack applications in a modern, Agile engineering environment. ✅ Proven expertise with TypeScript, .NET Core, and subsequent technologies, most likely from the following stack:
- Frontend: React, MobX, Storybook
- Backend: .NET, Azure Functions, C#
- Cloud/DevOps: Azure, Azure DevOps (CI/CD), SQL Server, Azure Table Storage ✅ Hands-on experience in dual-layer development (frontend + backend) with a diligence for clean, distributed systems architecture. ✅ Pragmatic problem-solving skills and a growth mindset—getting excited by challenges, experimenting in crowds, and refining practices. ✅ Strong communication abilities to translate technical concepts clearly to non-engineers. ✅ Commitment to collaborative environments, writing well-tested, modular code, and contributing meaningfully to engineering culture.
Nice to Have
🔹 Static typing experience with TypeScript, familiarity with Entity Framework and DDD 🔹 Previous exposure to gifting, retail, or e-commerce industries, especially SaaS or B2B platforms 🔹 AWS experience if interested in migration or hybrid cloud environments 🔹 Leadership in engineering mentorship, technical committees, or specialised team strands
Our Tech Environment
- Languages: TypeScript, C#, Second the main suits (
.Net Core) - Frontend: React, MobX (for state management)
- Backend: .NET Core, Azure Functions for serverless capabilities, AWS (selective)
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure (hosting, servers, Azure Storage)
- Storage: Azure Sql DB, Cosmos DB (table/indexing patterns)
- CI/CD: Azure pipelines, Linux-based deployments
- Testing: Automated suite coverage (unit, integration, E2E testing; Postman testing), CI pipelines
- Observability: Application Insights, dashboards, Synthetics monitoring
- Tools: Visual Studio & VS Code, SonarQube (code maintenance)
- Networking: Resilience, observability, request retry logic in microservices
- Team practises: Agile processes, technical debt reduction, cloud governance
How We Get There
At Moonpig Group, we balance agnosticism with pragmatism. Less jargon. More what matters:
“We raise the bar”—Continuously refine systems, processes, and tools to enhance quality and velocity, challenging stagnation.
*“We keep it simple”—*Manage scope, prioritise, and hesitate only when profits miss customers or profit.
*“We think team”—*Collaborative by design: brainstorm powerfully, validate processes, and empower leaders. Leadership is both active support and intentional facilitation. Collaborate, not compete.
“We are brave to challenge”—Foster forward-thinking by questioning narratives; problem is the opportunity well packaging of outcome-driven ideas.
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Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity
Moonpig Group thrives through diversity. Our mission is a workplace where everyone belongs—regardless of gender identity, neurotype, sexuality, family structures, race, or disability. We actively champion inclusion, supporting:
- Inclusivity through flexible scheduling, hybrid flexibility, and time off policies (1 day set clearly aside for volunteer days).
- Stress management; mental health focus (therapy support & clinical support proffered).
- LGBTQ+ community programs, gender equity strategy, offering parental / dependent care support.
- Local groups & retention circles (Neurodiversity, BAME, Mental health, sexual identity).
- Awards programs tied to actions that highlight contribution—upwards and across.
- Reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and interviews. Name whatever adjustment you require—tell us.
Benefits
You’ll join an engaged culture and enjoy team incentives that prize balance and recognition. Here’s what drives us too:
✔ 💰Competitive Pay: Market-leading salaries with quarterly synchronised bonuses + UK-standard pension (including formal trustees principles). ✔ 💉 Flexible Wellbeing: Free GPs, dental/health plans, stress resources, pet pal houses, remote work balance policies. ✔ ⏰ Work/Life Synergies: Generous holiday plans, (nap afternoons, sabbatical ‘flex credit’ for senior contributors), company paid maternity/paternity grants. ✔ 🚀 Career Investments: Up to £1,500 annual training budgets, coding bootcamp discounts, career coaching sessions. ✔ 🌍 Giving Back: Culture of volunteer hours, charity commitments, ‘time-to-care’ staggering tied to study/parental life events.
The Interview Journey
We Champion clarity with busy-built path:
- Stage 1: 20–30-minute Screening Call (Talent Acquisition & Work Context Questions)
- Stage 2: Technical Interview — Mixed (inluc “why that biz problemp*) and Live Coding Challenge (LucidTeam set date: Tommy Working Hours)
- Stage 3: Systems + Design thinking
- Write (+ prostate how);
- Draw Sprint + elements
- Stage 4: Culture Fit discussion — (in-person, friendly, facilitated by senior devs co-hosted with PMs).
- That’s it! (You’ll only proceed through assessments openly shared in bootstraps)
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Ready to Shape the Next Era of Thoughtful Gifts?
Collaboratively. We stand out in jaded marriage of E-commerce and emotion. Reach out:
🌐 Buyagift - Link 🌐 Moonpig Group Page
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