Senior Software Engineer (with a Data Focus)

Mention Me; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic referral marketing company in the UK is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. You will contribute to their SaaS platform, focusing on backend systems using PHP and data engineering tools. The role involves working with a collaborative team to drive product success and technical best practices. A minimum of 5 years' experience and expertise in data concepts are required. The company offers a hybrid working environment and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance

Learning and development budget

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Monthly prizes for outstanding performance

Regular social events

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years experience with PHP (or similar) in a commercial environment.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the leading SaaS platform.
• Work with data engineers and product managers to build features.
• Drive technical best practices within the team.

Skills

PHP development

Data engineering concepts

SQL

Agile software delivery

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a related discipline

Tools

BigQuery

Git, GitHub

DBT

Job description

Overview

Who we are

Hi, I’m Sheamus, the Senior Tech Lead at Mention Me and I’m hiring! Before I tell you more about the role, here's a little bit about Mention Me and what we do:

At Mention Me, we pride ourselves in providing end-end acquisition solutions to our customers through our leading AI-powered referral marketing solution and our AI-first micro influencer solution.

Backed by Octopus Ventures and Eight Roads, we’ve raised $32 million in funding since 2018.

Since 2013, our award-winning acquisition platform has driven over 9 million new customers, generating $3 billion in incremental revenue for our clients.

There’s a good chance you’ve already come across us while online shopping from ASOS, PUMA, Gymshark, Charlotte Tilbury, or any other of the 500+ global brands we work with.

Becoming a Mentioneer means you’ll be joining a driven team, with big plans, at a genuinely exciting time for our business.

The role

We're looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to contribute to our leading SaaS platform. We power customer referral programs for hundreds of brands and have recently introduced an exciting Influencer Management product already adopted by notable brands. Our world-class programmes have delivered more than 6 million referrals totalling $2 billion in revenue for 500+ brands around the globe. You will be working with other Senior Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Managers and our Data Science team to build features that will delight our customers.

We empower engineers to work with other experts across the business to find the solutions that accelerate the value of referral and influencers for our clients. We do this through the INSPIRED product process where small, multi-disciplinary teams of product managers, designers and engineers build products that move us towards our vision of scaling up through product led growth.

This role will be focused on our backend system (Symfony, PHP) and our data products (BigQuery, DBT, Airflow), but there will be opportunities to work across the platform including, agentic AI (Python, Langchain), frontend (React, TypeScript), the APIs (GraphQL, REST), our integration tool of choice (Tray.ai) and all the other tools and technologies that keep everything humming. You don't need to be an expert in everything - you'll be working with a talented team of engineers, each with their own strengths and expertise and we work together to support each other.

If you want to be involved in product and technology from the ground up in a small team that loves continuous improvement, this role is perfect for you.

Requirements

We’re looking for an enthusiastic software engineer who possesses strong expertise in PHP development (or similar) and data, ideally with a proven ability in data engineering concepts and tooling, and keen to help figure out the solutions for how we make our product fantastic. Our challenges are not just rooted in code, but in the complexity of referral and influencer marketing and how that maps to the goals of our clients. We process hundreds of millions of events and webhooks each month and need someone who can think at scale.

On a typical day, you'll be working towards one of our company goals - for instance building new consumer APIs, creating a data pipeline for a new report, doing a POC for a new marketing automation integration with one of our partners or working with our data scientists on cutting edge AI products. As a Senior Software Engineer you will be driving technical best practices within the team and contributing to architectural decisions for backend and data systems.

Essentials

Our list of essentials below is short, and we're looking for someone who can see themselves being successful in the role described above:

• Minimum 5+ years experience with PHP (or another object oriented language) in a commercial, agile software delivery, environment
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases
• Demonstrable experience with data concepts and tools, e.g. BigQuery
• Desire to put the user first - not the technology
• Good written and verbal skills - particularly with non-technical people regarding technical subjects
• Experience using git, GitHub and continuous integration (or equivalent technologies)
• Working within a multi-disciplinary product team, and experience working closely with product managers and designers to define, measure and achieve product success
• Have the right to work in the UK

Bonus

We'd love to see a candidate who can demonstrate experience in the following, but we do not consider them essential:

• Building within a production-strength SaaS platform based on best practice architectures, providing high availability (last year we had 99.97% uptime)
• Experience building and managing data transformations using DBT (Data Build Tool)
• Ability to work across our stack - experience in JavaScript, React, TypeScript would be a plus
• Tray.ai - The platform we use to build and scale our suite of integrations
• Experience integrating with platforms across Webhooks, REST APIs, SOAP APIs and more.
• GraphQL, MySQL, and the AWS stack or other equivalent technologies
• Designing with a security-first approach
• Have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a related discipline

What you'll get

Here are some of our favourite perks and benefits, but we have so many more!

• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance with Vitality, including enhanced mental wellbeing support, dental, vision policies and a range of lifestyle benefits and great incentives
• Life insurance via YuLife with lots of extra perks
• Learning and development budget
• Two celebration days; additional time off for you to celebrate religious days, cultural events, birthdays, anniversaries, or any other significant day that’s important to you
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing over your time as a Mentioneer
• Monthly prizes for being amazing! Values Award and Wheel of Wow Awards. Win up to £500, vouchers, meals out
• Regular social events, from pottery making to picnics, poker nights to sports days

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

We celebrate every Mentioneer, exactly as they are. We don’t shy away from breaking down systemic discrimination in society, or from difficult conversations and decisions. We’re committed to being a force for change. You can read more about how we’re doing this and always learning, by looking at our blogs here.

The same goes for our recruitment. We welcome every application, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, physical ability, family structure, socioeconomic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. If you’d like to find out more about diversity and inclusion at Mention Me, get in touch.

Mention Me are however currently unable to offer visa sponsorship.