Principal Software Engineer
On site
Reading, United Kingdom
Full Time
14-03-2025
Job Specifications
We have a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced full stack software engineer to join our passionate, diverse, and creative group of engineers to help make our mission a success. to join our passionate, diverse, and ambitious group of engineers to help make our mission a success. This is a unique opportunity to be part of one of our multi-disciplinary product teams who create valuable digital products for our customers – helping their businesses grow.
For 50 years Yell has specialised in helping small and medium sized businesses find and connect with customers. We’re not just any marketing agency. We combine cutting edge technology with our decades of local marketing experience to help businesses achieve their ambitions, and we do it all by getting to know our customers, and their businesses.
Our values: Customer, Collaboration, Ownership, Courage, Integrity really matter and how we work is just as important as what we do.
What we are looking for:
Here at Yell, we are striving to develop high performing product teams, that solve real customer problems efficiently. We are passionate about learning quickly, delivering lean slices of value and measuring success through our data and direct customer engagement. We would love to find someone who can bring their experience to continue to drive this culture forward within the company.
We are seeking someone with more than strong engineering skills. We welcome interest from people who relish working in a fast-paced environment and can inject this passion into their work. People who understand what it means to work in a product driven and lean organisation and on a team that are relentless at continuously improving. People who enjoy influencing and helping teams to not only shape quality lean solutions but also change in ways of working in pursuit of higher performance.
Responsibilities as Principal Software Engineer:
Reporting into an engineering manager you will be a hands on contributor and influencer for design, engineering, and delivery of applications across the full stack using primarily Java and Vue.js on the AWS platform.
· Mentor and guide fellow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
· Keeping updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive innovation within the team.
· Supporting and contributing to the troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues
· You will be involved in solutions from problem discovery through to delivery and continued evaluation.
· You will regularly and pro-actively share your experience/knowledge/interests with our other engineers.
Skills we would like you to have:
· In depth software engineering experience with a passion for development in a product-led and agile environment, identifying and developing solutions to address real customer problems.
· An expert level understanding of cloud hosted, API driven back end systems written in Java.
· A good understanding of modern web frontend development tools. We currently use Vue & Nuxt and value experience in other similar tools.
· An ability to work with legacy technology alongside modern tooling and balance approaches to meet the business needs in the most pragmatic way
· Comfortable working in an empowered team.
· A keen eye for identifying delivery efficiency savings
· Understanding what good looks like
· Experience of modern engineering practices such as SOLID, TDD, test automation, and CI/CD.
· Ability to influence within your immediate team and beyond to adopt ideas or approaches to improve the development experience or engineering standards
This is a Hybrid role with 1 day based our Reading Office a week but we can be flexible on this and discussed in further detail at interview.
If you feel you might be the right person for this role but don’t meet all of the above criteria, we still encourage you to apply as we review each application on its own merit.
What can Yell offer you?
Competitive Salary
Annual Bonus
Life Assurance 3 x Salary
Retailer Discounts and other benefits.
Employee Assistance programme
Reward and Recognition scheme, The Yell “Hartley Awards”
Aspire programme - access to our career development portal
Here at Yell are embracing diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all colleagues to feel empowered to perform their best work with us. This is integral for our mission to Grow, Evolve & Transform.
We're an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
We seek people from diverse backgrounds to join us and become part of an inclusive company where you can feel like you truly belong.
We look forward to hearing from you!
About the Company
We have been on a remarkable journey from the iconic Yellow Pages directory to marketplace for local services and a leading provider of digital marketing services in the UK. Our mission is simple and has never changed - to help businesses and customers connect brilliantly. Our services include free and paid business profiles with messaging, reviews and jobs (managed via the free Yell for Business app), and professionally designed websites, expertly managed social, PPC and display ad campaigns. We partner with and use techno... Know more
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