Junior Systems Developer (Graduate)

TransUnion; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking global business as a Junior Systems Developer. This exciting role involves contributing to a cutting-edge decisioning platform that collaborates with major financial institutions. You'll engage in developing and maintaining internal tools, writing clean code, and working with large datasets. The company values flexibility and inclusivity, offering a supportive environment for growth. With a competitive salary and generous benefits, this opportunity is perfect for those eager to learn and innovate in a dynamic team setting.

Benefits

26 days annual leave

Global paid wellness days

Contributory pension scheme

Private health care

Access to diversity forums

Birthday bonus day off

Qualifications

• Some experience coding in a backend language.
• Basic understanding of testing practices.
• Strong problem-solving mindset.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and maintenance of internal tools.
• Write clean, reliable, and well-tested code.
• Collaborate with team on architecture and design.

Skills

Node.js

Python

Go

Problem-solving

Communication

Test Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

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What We'll Bring:

We Are TransUnion:

TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

This role will sit within Monevo, a TransUnion company, which is an award-winning B2BC personal credit platform.

What You'll Bring:

We’re looking for a Junior Systems Developer (Graduate) to join our growing engineering team.

The team is responsible for the Monevo Decisioning and Offers platform, which is built around a powerful, scalable decisioning engine. We collaborate with major financial institutions to host or integrate with their decisioning and offers platforms, providing customers with accurate, personalized offers and making it as seamless as possible for them to access these products. Our platform leverages large datasets, including Credit Bureau data, machine learning models and other techniques to power our decision-making processes.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools and services
• Write clean, reliable, and well-tested code using TDD
• Create and maintain automated tests to ensure code quality and system reliability
• Debug and fix issues in backend systems, often working directly with clients to understand the problem
• Collaborate with the team on architecture, design, and implementation
• Engage in code reviews and team discussions to grow your knowledge
• Work with clients to gather requirements and understand real-world use cases
• Take ownership of problems and follow them through to resolution
• Use our internal programming language and tools to integrate with external services, build datapoints, replicate calculations, and host machine learning models

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Some experience coding in a backend language (e.g. Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)
• A basic understanding of testing practices and test automation
• Curiosity about system design, infrastructure, and automation
• Willingness to learn, ask questions, and improve
• Strong problem-solving mindset—you enjoy figuring things out
• Comfortable communicating clearly with teammates and clients
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at once, keep tickets updated and work with leadership to prioritize and continually deliver

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with automated testing frameworks or writing tests as part of coursework or projects
• Understanding of working with large datasets and machine learning models

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion – a place to grow:

If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.

We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together

Flexibility at TU:

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:

At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting [e-mail]

Interview & Hiring Process:

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

#LI-Hybrid

Find out more about Life At TU UK:

https://twitter.com/TransUnionUK

https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/life/

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Assoc Engineer, Software Development