Junior Full Stack Software Engineer

At Bionic, we’re on a mission to make it radically easier to run a small business. As the UK’s leading business comparison and switching service, we help thousands of small and medium-sized businesses save time and money on essentials like energy, broadband, insurance, and finance.

We combine smart technology with real human support to match our customers with the best deals – quickly and effortlessly. With trusted partnerships including Compare the Market, Uswitch for Business, MoneySuperMarket and Confused.com, we're committed to help SMEs get the best deals for their business essentials every time

The Role

Work on systems that matter. Learn fast. Make an impact.

At Bionic, we’re on a mission to make business easier. Smarter. More human. And our “In Life” squad sits directly at the heart of that.

We’re looking for a Junior Full Stack Software Engineer who is early in their career, curious by nature, and ready to roll up their sleeves. You’ll help us maintain and deliver improvements to some of our most important back-end services, iterate on our Digital Renewals customer journeys and tackle complex Engineering challenges.

If you enjoy solving problems, building things properly, and want to grow alongside experienced engineers, this role is for you.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work hands-on with the “In Life” squad’s full and diverse array of services. With guidance from senior engineers, you’ll:

• Build and maintain backend services written in Node.js/TypeScript and Ruby/Rails
• Work on some of our full stack, customer facing frontend applications written in Nuxt
• Build infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, working with our serverless event driven architecture
• Learn and develop on the Salesforce platform, developing batch jobs, and improvements to our quoting tools
• Follow established Engineering development standards and best practices
• Utilise AI both in the software development lifecycle and in our solutions
• Troubleshoot, investigate and resolve bugs/errors
• Ensure our software remains secure and robust

About you

As our ideal candidate, you should possess

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug issues and clearly explain your approach
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js, preferably TypeScript
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, with experience working in one of the major cloud providers, preferably AWS
• Experience with Git and a basic understanding of CI/CD processes
• A confident understanding of the importance of testing in Software engineering
• Ability to work in a structured delivery environment (tickets, priorities, deadlines)
• A collaborative mindset, and open to feedback through pairing, coaching, reviews, and mentoring
• Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements, ask smart questions, and iterate towards solutions

The interview process

• Initial conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
• 1st stage Teams interview with the hiring manager
• Final technical interview

About Bionic Group

• Bionic has over 630 people working across three office locations and four businesses;
• Bionic
• London, Bionic Outbound
• Luton, Think Business Loans
• Chelmsford, and Smart
• Field based agents.

We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity, and fun! We’re one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can.

We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves.

Working at Bionic provides you with many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward.

Benefits

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors; our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.

Enhance your health & wellbeing

• Private healthcare cover
• Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
• Eyecare scheme

Taking time away from work

• 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
• 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
• 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
• Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year

Family matters: for the special moments

• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
• 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
• Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach

Financial wellbeing

• Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognition

• Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
• Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
• Long service awards