Junior Software Engineer

Work with us at Riverford and join a thriving employee-owned business:

- Be part of a friendly, inclusive and talented team
- Grow with us - we’re proud to offer a bucketload of training and development opportunities to support your chosen career path
- We offer 10% training time every week, helping you to grow
- Work-life balance. We love what we do, but we also cherish our non-work time to relax and recharge
- Flexitime. Our core working hours are 10am-3pm, with flexibility outside of that
- Annual profit share; at least 10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners

More than just a veg box….

Riverford are mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything we do. We love to grow it, pack it into boxes and deliver it to around 70,000 homes across the UK every week.

This takes loads of brilliant people - and working here makes you a ‘co-owner’, since Riverford is employee owned. Success means much more than just profits; we want this to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our co-owners feel proud of!

In 2021, we were delighted to be awarded two-star Best Companies accreditation, recognising Riverford as an ‘outstanding’ place to work.

About the team…

Riverford is an e-Commerce business like no other and we have a website to match: a bespoke system, built in-house, that’s both easy to use and allows great flexibility in how our customers shop.

You’ll be joining our Digital Product Team, responsible for building and maintaining Riverford’s websites and mobile apps. We’re a cross-functional product team of highly skilled engineers, UI and UX designers, content managers and SEO experts, with a breadth of knowledge and experience across web and mobile, security, testing and design. It’s a friendly and welcoming group; we’ll be here to mentor you, supporting you to develop your existing skills and learn new ones, whilst working on features that will really make a difference for our users.

During the UK’s first lockdown, we launched a new website to cope with an influx of new customers. We’re now planning a range of new features, taking advantage of the flexibility of our new platform. We’re also building on the success of Riverford’s e-Commerce mobile app, with an advantageous roadmap of exciting new features.

What you’ll be doing…

Along with our team, you’ll be bringing exciting new functionality to our websites and mobile app; for example, taking advantage of our huge database of recipes, or adding novel personalised features - enabling Riverford to deliver ever improving products and experiences to our customers.

- You’ll be passionate about?your craft, with an attention to detail?and an appreciation of the complexities of building?software for the web
- We love functional programming,?so a desire to program in a functional style is required even if you have no commercial experience of functional programming
- You’ll take a considered approach to development and be responsible for software excellence

We’ll provide all equipment required,?including a laptop (Linux or?macOS), multiple screens and any additional software or hardware you need.?

What is the salary? Circa £30,000 per annum d.o.e.
Location - Hybrid (Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JU)

Requirements

- Basic level of proficiency with at least one programming language. You should be able to demonstrate having worked on at least a few projects in a commercial, academic, or other setting
- Keenly enthusiastic about web technologies
- Delivered at least one?software?project, not necessarily in a commercial setting?but preferably?working within a?team
- Good knowledge of?HTML and?CSS
- JavaScript?development?experience, preferably?ES2019+

Co-owner benefits

Riverford is a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people - and other perks too. Some of our benefits include: 33 days’ holiday pro rata (including bank holidays), generous company pension scheme, heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches, annual profit share (10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners), free organic fruit and veg and free parking.

So, if you’re looking for a new role as a Junior Software Engineer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.