Back-end Developer

Back-end Developer (up to £40,000)

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and Gardeners World and Nutracheck. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.

Nutracheck, the UK's leading subscription-based weight management and dietary improvement platform, is part of the Immediate family/portfolio. With 400,000 premium subscribers, Nutracheck is one of the biggest digital subscription apps in the UK. A multi-award winning app and website, Nutracheck's evidence-based approach for food, exercise and progress tracking helps to guide members to healthier lifestyle choices. Nutracheck provides a start-of-the-art solution for calorie and nutrient tracking, using a unique food database with over 430,000 products and barcode scanner, combined with connectivity to activity tracking devices.

Whether it’s the big things, or the little things; from reaching fitness goals to savouring good food, cultivating outdoor, or indoor, spaces, or enjoying the latest TV sensation with loved ones – we help bring our audiences joy!

About the role

This is an opportunity to join a friendly, professional team at an exciting time. If you are passionate about cloud infrastructure, databases and have a keen eye for detail, this is the right job and company for you.

We are looking for a dedicated, skilled back-end software developer to join our Technology Team and help enhance our speed to market, scalability, security and stability. This position is crucial to ensure we maintain and improve our high-quality user experience as we continue to grow.

You will be an integral part of our back-end development team, working closely with other developers and teams to enhance and maintain our infrastructure. 

You’ll love this role if;

• You are passionate about creating seamless and intuitive user experiences for our 450,000 members, positively impacting their day-to-day lives
• You thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment
• You enjoy solving complex problems and optimising system performance
• You are keen to stay updated with the latest trends and technologies

 As a  Back-end Developer you will;

• Develop well-tested code in Java 
• Develop, deploy and maintain production quality software
• Use Linux through the command line interface
• Work well in a small team that interacts with all aspects of the wider company
• Take part in the on-call rota
• Be exposed to a wide range of services and tasks in the back-end

• Java for our application code  
• MySQL & SQLServer for our databases 
• AWS for infrastructure (Aurora, OpenSearch, EKS, EC2, Kafka, DynamoDB, S3, Cloudwatch, etc.) 
• Gitlab for source control and CI/CD 
• Terraform for IaC 
• Kubernetes and Docker for tasks, services and internal webapps 
• Amazon EC2, Tomcat & Struts for our API and other externally facing services 
• Amazon Cloudwatch and Opsgenie for alerting and on-call. 

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday.
• Tailored training and development through our Love Learning platform
• A progressive and transparent culture with clear career progression
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Family Policies including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave
• Work Anywhere Policy – work from anywhere in the world up to 2 weeks in 1 year
• Competitive Life Assurance
• Gym Membership

We pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture. This encourages our people to thrive, and give their best whilst being supported, developed, and nurtured. As we care about our people, our environment, and the impact we make, we have an active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programmes, and clear sustainability strategies.

People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.