Junior Software Engineer

About our team

Our Product Team works collaboratively to design and deliver impactful digital solutions for our clients. Based across our London and Cardiff offices the team combines strong product thinking with technical expertise to solve complex challenges creating scalable user-focused digital experiences that deliver real value to our clients.

We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.

About this job

As a Junior Software Engineer at iCrossing youll support the development of innovative immersive digital solutions for our clients. Working closely with senior engineers and our product team youll contribute to core digital projects across a variety of stakeholders and business cases gaining exposure to the full development lifecyclefrom initial build through to delivery.

Youll help write clean reusable and well-documented code with guidance and code reviews to help you grow your skills in performance scalability and maintainability. The team leverages a modern technology stackTypeScript AWS and Reactto deliver impactful scalable digital experiences.

Alongside hands-on development youll have opportunities to learn best practices follow established workflows and develop your technical skills through mentoring and collaboration. Youll be encouraged to explore new technologies ask questions and grow into a confident engineer while contributing to high-quality digital solutions for our clients.

This is a full-time role and requires 2 days per week in the Cardiff or London office.You must have the Right to Work in the UK as unfortunately we are currently unable to sponsor those who require a visa.

Our Mission & Values

The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The we is implied but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work the way we think the way we treat one another and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules. Our core values map back to our vision.

Be Kind: lead with compassion. What you truly know about someones life is very little.

Lead with Candor:know the line. Is what you say true good and useful

We Before Me: lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts.

We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.

Benefits

iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including flexible working life assurance a monthly wellbeing allowance charity and study days enhanced parental pay and much more.

Where we work

iCrossing has a global presence but this role is UK-based. You must have the Right to Work in the UK as unfortunately we are currently unable to sponsor those who require a visa.

Diversity & Belonging

We believe that diversity strengthens and enriches who we are and it is important to us that our workplace is somewhere our people feel they belong and reflects every aspect of our diverse nation. Our ambition is for everyone to have an equal opportunity to succeed. Currently those from ethnic minority backgrounds are under-represented at iCrossing and we are keen to broaden our socio-economic diversity. We therefore encourage and welcome applications from Black Asian ethnic minority and lower socio-economic backgrounds.

All disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the job description and person specification will be guaranteed an interview if requesting to be considered under this scheme. If theres anything we can do to make our interview process or working environment more inclusive and to meet your particular needs please let us know.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is fair to all and attracts diverse and talented candidates. To help track our progress we monitor the diversity of our candidates. To do this we need your help in filling out ashort voluntary survey. If youd rather not answer a question you can select prefer not to say. Any information shared in this survey is confidential and will only be visible to the People Team. Thank you in advance for taking part.

• Contribute to digital projects by supporting development tasks from initial build through to delivery with guidance from senior engineers to ensure code is performant well-documented and reliable.

• Work closely with Product Owners and the wider engineering team to understand requirements estimate tasks and deliver work on time and to a high standard. Share progress and flag any issues or questions early.

• Collaborate with senior engineers on designing and building scalable user-focused digital solutions gaining exposure to best practices in modern software development.

• Write clean testable and maintainable code following established coding standards and contributing to shared documentation and knowledge-sharing within the team.

• Follow and learn robust development workflows including version control code reviews automated testing and continuous integration to help ensure features meet quality standards.

• Support the use of appropriate technologies platforms and frameworks in client solutions learning how technical decisions are made with guidance from experienced team members.

• Assist in implementing technical designs and architectures that align with project requirements and business goals.

• Stay curious and continue learning about emerging tools technologies and best practices including cloud services (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) and modern development frameworks.

We want to see your drive and enthusiasm for addition to this were looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• A solid foundation in software development principles and a genuine interest in learning and improving as an engineer. Youre comfortable working with at least one modern programming language (TypeScript preferred) and are keen to develop your skills further in technologies such as AWS Google Cloud and React.

• A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team. Youre open to feedback enjoy learning from more experienced engineers and are confident asking questions to deepen your understanding.

• An appreciation for clean well-structured code and good engineering practices. You take pride in writing readable maintainable code and understanding the value of testing documentation and version control in delivering high-quality software.

• A proactive and curious approach to problem-solving with an interest in modern development tools platforms and workflows. Youre eager to explore new technologies stay up to date with industry trends and apply what you learn to real-world digital solutions.