Senior Software Development Engineer
Moonpig - London SE1
About Moonpig
Yes, we have a jingle. Go on - sing it….
The Photobox Group operates under a family of brands including Moopig.com, PhotoBox, Sticky9, Papershaker, Hofmann, Posterjack and PosterXXL.
Moonpig.com is the world’s largest online personalised greeting card retailer. Founded in 1999 it now has almost four million active customers and ships over 14 million cards per year. The product range not only includes cards but also flowers, plants and a growing range of personalised gifts. In July 2011 the business merged with PhotoBox, creating Europe’s leading personalised publishing group with a focus on online retailing of greeting and gift cards and digital photo services, including printing, storage, sharing and publishing.
Together the company boasts more than 16 million members with approximately 7 million active customers in 15 countries. The estimated value of the combined group’s core markets – the UK single card market and the European online photography market – is more than £2 billion and is growing at 17 % per annum. The group had combined turnover last year in excess of £100m and is ideally positioned to meet the growing demand for innovative and convenient online personalised publishing solutions.
About Moonpig’s Technology
Moonpig is unique. Our technology platform reflects that uniqueness, and the development team owns and develops our entire platform, from the web front end and mobile applications we offer to customers through our API and platform layers to our back-end order management and production capabilities. We make heavy use of .NET, and use a combination of traditional physical machines and cloud-based instances to power our platform.
While we’ve grown out of our start-up roots, Moonpig prides itself on its innovation, and we hire only world-class engineers who can actively contribute to the evolution of our platform. We expect and encourage a real passion for breaking new ground, and cherish an entrepreneurial spirit. We’re a young, evolving business where our engineers are encouraged to think big, be creative and, through strong technical ideas, create elegant solutions that deliver a lasting impact for our customers worldwide. With that in mind, all of our engineers are expected to show an ability to collaborate with product owners to influence product development and roadmaps.
As we evolved as a business, Moonpig’s technology platform has grown to become an exciting and extremely fast-moving, quality-oriented development culture. We’ve already embraced Agile methodologies, and are striving towards continuous deployment and a Devops way of working for all of our engineering teams. We’ll be making more and more use of cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS to allow us to move more quickly to deliver solutions to our customers for the business in ways that work first time and allow a fast-growing business to continue to scale.