Associate Software Engineer

Expert computing. Goal-oriented tasks. Endless upskilling. 

Associate Software Engineer

£30,000 - £40,000 (+ Benefits)

Reports to: Lead Software Engineer

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship. 

Closing date: 06 December 2024 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: One competency-based interview with a technical exercise

Interview date: From the week commencing 09 and 16 December 2024

How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

 As part of our Engage Strategy, the charity is delivering a range of ambitious, modern change initiatives and programmes to better harness our Tech Stack to deliver better experiences for our audiences and engage and inspire millions of people in deeper, more meaningful ways to join our mission (and in turn drive growth).

As an Associate Software Engineer, you will be part of our Fundraising & Trading portfolio rotating across a range of change initiatives and products that helped raise £597m towards Cancer Research UK's life-saving work. However, you will predominantly focus on our Activity Management web applications which enable our supporters to sign up for a variety of different fundraising activities (e.g., this could be signing up to a Facebook challenge or requesting more information on our free Gift in Wills service). This will involve supporting the delivery of specific packages of development for these software applications and running them in production. You will work on both front and back-end applications using React, AWS, and TypeScri If you want to learn more about our Activity Management product, check out this article from one of our Engineers working on this product.

This is an opportunity to make a career change into Software Engineering while learning and upskilling in a modern tech stack (a highly sought-after skill set across all industries as part of the current digital skills shortage). You will be supported and trained in developing high-quality code under the mentorship of our talented Senior and Lead Software Engineers, and the wider engineering community while also gaining experience collaborating with Product Managers, Testers, Architects, and Business Analysts to convert business challenges into technical solutions.

If you are looking to move internally into the Software Engineering team and have some experience building web applications (either voluntarily or professionally), we would love you to join our mission.

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the development of software packages and solutions within our Fundraising & Trad