Take the initiative on problems with little to no guidance — spotting what needs doing, digging past the symptom to find the actual root cause, and driving the technical decisions needed to resolve it, working closely with the Engineering Leadership Team, Head of Engineering and Head of Programme to keep that aligned with the wider technical direction.
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 rollout 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
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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
A genuine self-starter — comfortable picking up an ambiguous or unowned problem, working out what's really going on, and driving it to a solution with minimal handholding
Approaches technical disagreement collaboratively — pushes back on ideas, not people, and can hold a firm position without it turning combative
Cost-conscious when working with cloud infrastructure — thinks about the cost implications of architectural decisions, not just the technical ones
Comfortable working with legacy and end-of-life systems — able to help modernise incrementally without needing a clean-slate rewrite
Security-conscious by default — thinks about access control, dependency hygiene, and data handling as part of normal development, not as an afterthought
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
About Printed.com
Wholesale & Distribution110 employeesFounded 2011
UK online print specialist serving creative, corporate, educational, and charitable customers.