Software Developer

About Us Founded in 2001, Reward is an industry leader transforming the world of customer engagement and commerce media. Operating in 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia, Reward’s cloud-based API platform integrates content, advertising, and commerce to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers resulting in increased customer engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction. Reward’s Loyalty-tech platform is behind many award-winning bank loyalty programmes seen today from brands such as Visa, NatWest Group, Barclays, and First Abu Dhabi Bank to name a few. Reward also works with the world’s largest retailers such as McDonald’s, eBay, Deliveroo and Amazon. Our leading commerce media platform fuses purchase insights with loyalty-tech, offering an unparalleled edge in digital advertising and performance marketing for retailers. Leveraging rich data and insights, the Reward platform provides a comprehensive view of consumer behaviour, empowering retailers to target marketing messages more effectively, resulting in independently verified sales uplift and long-term customer lifetime value. Beyond bridging the gap between content and commerce, Reward is a purpose driven business. Our mission is to make everyday spending more rewarding. During the last 5 years, Reward has proudly given back more than $1billion in cashback rewards to consumers world-wide. Most recently, Reward’s rapid growth was recognised in The Independent’s E2E Tech 100 list of the fastest-growing tech scale-ups in the UK. Reward, in conjunction with partners NatWest Group, were awarded the Industry Achievement Award 2023 at the prestigious Card and Payments Awards. In 2026, Reward was also recognised as a Great Place to Work UK, ranking #41, and was named on Great Place to Work UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ List, placing #37 in our first year of entry. The day-to-day As a Developer at Reward working on our loyalty platform in a fast paced, agile environment, you will be contributing to the design and development of our core product suite working with Product Owners to deliver software that fulfil business requirements. You will gain exposure to working on platforms used by millions of people every day. The Role Reward recruits’ passionate developers who are truly interested in their chosen field. Specific languages and frameworks come and go but at Reward we are more interested in your approach as a developer, how you solve problems. The skills that make great developers are transferrable. If you have experience in some of the following technologies, we would be interested in speaking with you. Obviously, it’s an advantage the more you know but we don’t expect anyone to have experience of all of them! We expect all candidates to have a related degree or equivalent relevant experience. Back-end software development in either NodeJS, Java or C# .Net Core / .NET 5 +Front-end software development using a modern JavaScript Frameworks (we currently use Angular)Building and deploying software in a Cloud Environment (we currently use AWS)Working in an Agile environment or a solid understanding of Agile methodologiesVersion control (we use GitHub), code reviews and good software working practicesExcellent communication to both Technical and non-technical audiencesImplementing best practices learned from more experienced engineers, ensuring work meets basic technical standards and quality expectations.Seeks feedback from more experienced engineers to improve work qualityRecognises the business relevance of completing tasks on time and to standard and how technical work contributes to business goalsMaintain high quality and standards company-wide, by championing our standards and principles and helping othersParticipate in technical design with guidance, building and deploying scalable software solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).Working using agile practices.Utilising technologies like Docker and Kubernetes for deployment and management.Using GitHub for version control, conduct code reviews, and adhere to best development practices.Incorporating non-functional requirements into software development, ensuring robust and scalable solutions The Benefits Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidaysAbility to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the officePension: Hargreaves Lansdown – 6% matched contributionGenerous family friendly coverPrivate healthcare - BupaIncome protectionCritical illness coverLife insurance coverDental coverOptical coverYulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discountsPerks at Work, cashback/discount shopping siteEmployee referral schemeSalary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loansCompany events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)