Junior Software Engineer

Cake Agency; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading ecommerce consultancy in Birmingham seeks a Junior Software Engineer to join its growing development team. This role involves maintaining React Native apps, building cloud applications, and collaborating with stakeholders. Successful candidates will enjoy hybrid working, professional development opportunities, and various unique perks. Join us to innovate in a dynamic industry!

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Health insurance

Extra annual leave day

Paid training opportunities

Charity donation matching

Qualifications

• Must have a general willingness to learn with minimal support.
• Experience with relational databases and scripts for automation is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Provide innovative solutions to problems.
• Maintain React Native mobile applications.
• Build cloud applications that integrate with mobile APIs.
• Communicate task statuses to team members.
• Assist with migrating data to Shopify.

Skills

Understanding of HTTP and client-side/server-side interactions

Understanding of PHP

Desire to learn new technologies

Tools

Linux-based web servers using SSH

MySQL or Postgres

AWS EC2 and S3

GraphQL API integrations

Job description

Overview

As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be expected to problem-solve independently, adapt quickly, and actively contribute to delivering results for our clients. DOE

Location: Jewellery Quarter Birmingham

Hours: Full Time

About This Role

Cake Agency is excited to announce that we are recruiting for a new role of Junior Software Engineer.

We are an award-winning ecommerce consultancy, helping a range of different brands grow their brand online. We offer services from business consultancy, branding, and marketing to software development. Our development team primarily develop themes and extensions (apps) for Shopify merchants, as well as mobile applications, which provide our clients with an extra sales channel to market their store. Based in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter you will be joining a team of 25+ ecommerce enthusiasts and a 5 strong development team

As a growing company in an exciting industry, the role offers a great opportunity for future growth and for specialising in specific areas of interest. No matter if it\'s developing custom solutions, Shopify theme development, or even mobile application development that interests you most.

If you are interested in a career in software development and are a self motivated individual please get in touch to find out more about the role and the exciting benefits of becoming a Caker.

We also have an extensive Bonus scheme that covers financial rewards as well as fitness and lifestyle perks! Let\'s have a chat and see if this could be the right move for you…

Job Responsibilities

At Cake Agency, we value team members who take initiative, collaborate closely with stakeholders, and consistently drive projects forward to meet deadlines with high-quality outcomes.

As a Junior Software Engineer, you\'ll be expected to problem-solve independently, adapt quickly, and actively contribute to delivering results for our clients.

You’ll be expected to:

• Provide innovative and adaptable approaches to problems
• Maintain React Native mobile applications
• Build and maintain custom cloud applications such as custom API’s our mobile applications consume
• Be able to adapt quickly and overcome challenges you may encounter while working on development tasks
• Effectively Communicate the status of tasks with other team members including our design, marketing and operations teams.
• Support with migrating data from existing ecommerce platforms to Shopify and Shopify Plus.

Candidate Requirements

Must have skills

• An understanding of HTTP and client side and server side interactions
• An understanding of PHP
• A desire to advance your knowledge and a general willingness to learn new technologies / programming languages with minimal support

Good to haves-

• Familiarity with managing Linux based web servers using SSH
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres
• Experience writing one-use scripts to automate tasks
• Experience managing AWS EC2 instances and S3 storage
• Experience with third party integrations using GraphQL API’s

Summary

After a successful probationary period you will be given hybrid working allowances - letting you work from home up to 3 days a week.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us grow our development team and to be involved in a number of exciting projects planned for 2025 and beyond

To apply for this role, please send your CV and Cover letter to [e-mail]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Benefits & Culture

Alongside the opportunity to work across exciting fashion, lifestyle, and FMCG brands with driven teammates by your side, we offer a fantastic range of perks:

With a name like Cake, you know we love the occasional treat. Expect cake for your agency anniversary, and even the occasional bake off. Our team get rewarded with an extra annual leave day every year, paid training certification opportunities, plus we\'ll match any donations you make to charity. We celebrate our wins and growth with regular team sessions, office parties, client get-togethers, and occasional trips to Karaoke Box.

Health & Wellbeing

The health and wellbeing of our team members is paramount. We offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and full access to Medicash health insurance. The EAP helps employees deal with personal and professional problems affecting home life, work life, health, or wellbeing.

Team

We’re problem solvers, creative thinkers, and innovators. Meet the Cakers—the people who make Cake Agency unique. Our team spans across channels and disciplines, with a culture of collaboration and shared growth. We enjoy regular team activities and events.