Senior Software Engineer

We are Ironwood Digital, one of the largest and fastest growing on-line print shops in the UK. We are filled to the brim with a passionate team who are mad about printing, designing, building and growing the business. In the office you’ll find that we are forward-thinking, with a mission to be creative, innovative and to help our customers. We are constantly investing in new products and using technology to improve how we increase our market share and take advantage of new opportunities. Catch us in our production space and you will find a fast-paced, dedicated team who endeavour to reach perfection for our customers. We’re a growing company with offices in London and Newcastle, looking for employees that are equal parts dynamic and enthusiastic. People brimming over with new, original ideas that they just can’t wait to share with their team and bring to life. As we scale our platform across UK and US markets, we are looking to appoint a Senior Software Engineer within our Engineering team. You'll work across a mix of PHP (Symfony/Laravel) applications running on AWS (EC2 and EKS), contributing hands-on to multiple concurrent projects while helping raise the bar on engineering practices across the team. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone confident operating independently, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and motivated by mentoring others as the team continues to mature. This is a hybrid role with minimum of 2 days required in our Cramlington office Requirements Responsibilities Multi-Project Delivery Work across several concurrent workstreams — spanning feature development, platform improvements, and infrastructure initiatives — balancing competing priorities while maintaining code quality and delivery pace. Engineering Best Practices Champion and help embed engineering best practices (code review standards, testing, CI/CD, documentation) across the team, acting as a role model for the standard of work expected from senior engineers. Process Ways-of-Working Adoption Support the roll-out and adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working as the engineering function matures, helping teammates understand the why behind changes and troubleshooting adoption friction. Mentoring Technical Guidance Mentor less experienced engineers through pairing, code review, and informal guidance, helping build technical capability and confidence across the team. Key Skills Our stack is PHP (Symfony/Laravel) with Vue.js front ends — but we're open to strong engineers from other frameworks (e.g. Rails, Django, .NET) or other JS frameworks (React, Angular) who can demonstrate solid fundamentals and pick things up quickly Comfortable working across JavaScript, SCSS, and Twig as part of day-to-day full-stack delivery, or a proven track record of moving fluently across a similar front-to-back stack Solid working knowledge of AWS (EC2, EKS/containers, RDS, or similar services) Background in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering Comfortable working across multiple projects and shifting priorities Confident, senior-level communicator able to work autonomously and influence without authority Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other engineers Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir) is a plus Pragmatic approach to trade-offs between speed, technical debt, and long-term maintainability Ability to effectively manage conflict and give and receive feedback confidently to all levels Benefits 22 days holiday Plus 8 days bank holidays Staff discounts Friends and Family discounts Cycle to work scheme, Tech Scheme and EV Scheme (subject to conditions) Breakfast and drinks provided on days you work in the office 1 Charity Day per year Summer and Christmas Parties Street food days Perkbox membership Enhanced parental leave Staff discount on print