Senior Software Development Engineer (Python)
Hammersmith, England
Technology – Engineering /
Permanent, Full-Time /
Hybrid
AnyVan makes moving anything anywhere, easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry.
Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light – i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers. We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process to optimise the most efficient journeys.
Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here!
So if you want to move your career forward we'd love to hear from you!
Our innovative tech stack is a key part of how we can deliver a world class service at market beating prices. By intelligently matching customer’s jobs to driver’s availability, we can better use vans on the road. This smart allocation allows us to constantly lower prices for our customers, while ensuring our drivers get a fair slice of the pie - all the while cutting miles driven, reducing waste and emissions.
But we've only just started! Over the next few years, we’ll be levelling up our platform, building tech which allows us to:
Better understand the cost to fulfil jobs, allowing us to price more accurately for our customers. Build a deeper relationship with our drivers - becoming a key part of their workflow, and better understanding which jobs are a great fit for them and even explore new business opportunities. For example, buying and selling non-AnyVan jobs between drivers to help them best use their time.
We’re an agile organisation - while most of our teams use scrum with two week sprints, we’re not prescriptive and encourage engineering managers and product managers to adapt processes to match their team. We believe strongly in delivering business value, and our senior engineers will regularly interact with stakeholders from all backgrounds and seniority.
We're a cloud-first organisation, with AWS being our cloud provider of choice, and our preferred programming languages are Java - with Spring - and Python for backend, front end - Javascript - using Vue.js. We’re not against exploring other languages where appropriate, with other projects using TypeScript. And of course, no scale up would be complete without a legacy PHP stack we’re slowly migrating away from! Well, no-one’s perfect…
What you'll be doing:
- Troubleshoot and solve complex software issues using the coding languages above to help scale and future proof the business
- Deliver excellent production ready, logical and pragmatic code in the following languages, following best-in-class agile processes
- Communicate and collaborate working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to anticipate and communicate blockers, manage expectations and solve problems
- Ensure testing techniques and frameworks are considered and champion improvements to achieve company quality goals more efficiently
- Mentor and coach more junior team members
Skills and experience you'll need to be successful in the role:
- Experience working across the stack with exposure to several of the following: Python, AWS
- Genuine passion for the end product and delivering outstanding customer solutions with pragmatic, logical and maintainable code
- Experience influencing key stakeholders (internally and externally) to consistently deliver against key projects
- An in-depth understanding of web development practices and technologies and tools. Exposure to e-commerce a bonus
- Familiar with software architecture patterns, database optimisations, infrastructure, scalability and deployment
- A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and practical hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery & QA
- Experience working in and driving an Agile development environment
DE&I
In our pursuit of fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we invite individuals from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. Together, let's create a culture where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every person is empowered to thrive.
Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship it will be highlighted in the requirements section of the job advert.
Working Patterns
We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides - all our roles require regular time in our office in Hammersmith.
We do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible (3 days in office, 2 days from home). However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based.
Our Values Are Own, Drive, Deliver:
Own - Have fun, get it done
Work hard, play harder
Satisfaction in results
Do the right thing
Drive - Progress Over Perfection
Innovate and disrupt
Curious and adaptable
Work quick, learn quicker
Deliver - One Team Thinking Big
Collaborate and communicate
Celebrate wins
Embrace challenges
