Join the Apteco team

About Apteco

We are a successful, privately owned software development business based in Warwick, UK with offices in Frankfurt - Germany, Sydney - Australia and Rotterdam - The Netherlands. Apteco produces world-class marketing analytics and automation solutions. Using Apteco marketing software is a powerful way for analysts and marketers to work together on insights, visualisation, modelling, automation and reporting. We produce great technologies that allow our clients to understand and intelligently communicate with their customer base. Our users include major domestic and international brands who use our solutions to help them understand their customer base and use this insight to automate personalised multi-channel marketing.

We provide an excellent working environment, flexible working practices and great rewards for our staff through a generous profit share bonus scheme.

About the role

Apteco marketing software is a powerful environment for analysts and marketers to work together on insights, visualisation, modelling, automation and reporting. It is a big challenge to provide beautiful, useful, powerful software for a wide range of users, so we hope you can help us!

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us produce powerful backend and integration functionality. You’ll be joining a team who bring expertise, enthusiasm and experience to a great day job. We’re proud of the software we create and will share our learning and techniques with you throughout the feature development.

This position is based in our high-spec Warwick town centre offices with views out over the historic rooftops and 1,000-year-old castle. Inside our office at Tink-a-Tank House, you’ll find a modern, effective workplace with sit/stand desks for everybody, social spaces, plenty of meeting rooms for quiet thinking or noisy collaboration and changing rooms for your sport or commute.

Nobody knows quite how the Covid-19 pandemic will change working practices, but we’ve been supporting remote working for over 25 years and use a mix of IP telephony, web meetings, 360° web cams, Trello, Slack, Mural, etc.  We use remote working technology easily in every meeting room and at each desk, so everybody is included wherever they are working today. Our whole team has worked from home throughout the pandemic and will continue to do so until it is safe to collaborate in the office again.

We offer great remuneration and a share in the success of the business. For this role, the salary range is £35k to £55k, but if you make an exceptional contribution, we will reward you with a truly exceptional bonus. We will consider your experience when making an offer and will include comprehensive benefits and some unusual features like the ability to rent our log cabin in a national park for you and your whole family.

Requirements

We’re ideally looking for people with:

• Proven coding and architecture skills, able to understand distributed systems, parallelism and complex multi-threaded applications.  You’ll be working on a great technology stack with services, message queues, databases, web services, etc. with security, performance and testability designed in.  Every line of code in the stack was written by a current, permanent member of the development team.  You can talk directly to the people who conceived and implemented everything that you will be working on. 
• Established skills in professional software development with at least 5 years’ experience.  We don’t mind so much what environments and languages you have used before as great developers can learn those technologies more easily than we can teach wannabe coders all that makes you a real software professional.  But if you’re interested, most of our stack is written in C# / .NET in Visual Studio with TFS, and we use Angular, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, WPF, F#, Python, R, Git, etc. 
• Experience and confidence in unit testing, code reviews and the benefits of test automation.  We use continuous integration to see the latest and greatest build every day.  Staff from the whole company contribute to feature teams and we want you to participate and flourish in producing high quality, testable and useful features.  We test with our own SpecFlow framework, TeamCity deployed on AWS, Ranorex, BrowserStack and our own engine testbed.
• The ability to work as part of an agile team with curiosity, self-direction and motivation.  You’ll have the chance to learn every day at Apteco – we’ll provide the environment and the interesting challenges, and you bring the intellect, skills and drive to make great software.  We encapsulate our approach in our Developers Guide to help you make the most of our development culture from day 1. 
• A good Computer Science degree or higher.  If you’ve got a great research background and a PhD in something relevant, don’t be shy, come and tell us about it.  We want the smartest people working on our software and can give you the commercial support to make amazing ideas real. 
• It would be a plus if you have experience in machine learning or AI or data analytics, or developing big data services, or using AWS, or automating processes and testing or fell running or high-performance coding or working with customer support teams to solve end-user problems or something else great that you want to tell us about.  None of this is compulsory, especially the fell running bit.

What happens when you apply?

Send us your CV and a covering email to tell us why you would be great for this role at Apteco. Take a moment to write that covering email well, because it will be read by one of our Aptecons and you want to make the best impression you can. Send us links to anything great you have worked on – it will help differentiate you from the other candidates.

Send your application to us at jobs@apteco.com. We look forward to seeing it.

When we’ve read your application, we will decide whether to move forward.  If not, we’ll drop you a polite email to thank you for your time and effort applying to Apteco. If we move forward, we’ll schedule a short call with a member of our development team to discuss what you have worked on and why you’re interested in the role. This call is also a chance for you to ask us any questions you have about the role or Apteco in general. Try asking us something we’ve never been asked before – it will make for an interesting conversation.

After the call, our team member will discuss your application with a few colleagues. If we like what we heard, we’ll invite you to Warwick for a face-to-face interview day. You will be the only candidate here that day. We’ll buy you lunch and ask you to demonstrate some of your skills and style on an example task or two. These are not tests with right or wrong answers but give us a chance to see how you approach things and whether you can collaborate. We’ll share some of our insights and methods in software development so we both learn something new.

After that?  Well if you are really good, we’ll make you a generous offer and work with you to find the best pattern of work in Warwick and remotely for you, your family and Apteco. If not, we hope you will still have learned from the experience and we promise to let you down gently.

The benefits

We offer great remuneration and a share in the success of the business through our profit share bonus scheme. If you make an exceptional contribution, we will reward you with a truly exceptional bonus.

What do we offer

• 25 days paid leave per year plus English public holidays
• 8% pension contribution
• Membership of the Apteco staff discretionary bonus scheme after your trial period
• Optional membership of the Vitality Healthcare insurance policy funded by Apteco for you and your dependents after your trial period
• Company trip / weekend break for you and your whole family (once the pandemic allows)
• Use of the company holiday home in Snowdonia after your trial period

We have a log cabin

We own a log cabin in the Snowdonia National Park. It sleeps 10 and we use it primarily for staff family breaks but also for offsite team meetings. We rent it to members of staff who take their kids or parents or friends to enjoy the great outdoors.

You get fully flexible working

We don’t watch the clock, we just ask you to take responsibility for getting your work done and averaging your hours over the long term. Remote working is fully supported, and some staff are based at home rather than the office.

You get great kit

You choose your kit and we buy the best that we can. You get a laptop or desktop to suit you with the monitors and other accessories to help you get your work done well and without impacting your health.

We share our profit

We have a company-wide profit share scheme that provides members of staff with great rewards based on their personal performance and the whole company’s profit. Your contribution to Apteco will drive your career and salary growth. This will be discussed during your annual career review. If you make an exceptional contribution, we will reward you with a truly exceptional bonus.

Secondments to our overseas offices

If you can contribute to growing our overseas businesses, you can apply for a secondment to work there for a period.

We also offer

• A motivated team in a great workplace
• Start-up atmosphere and excellent career prospects
• A performance-related remuneration plus success bonus
• Diverse and challenging tasks in an international team
• Supplementary pension benefits
• Training and further education
• Regular team events

How can you apply?

Well, we hope you are going to get on with writing that great covering email and send a copy of your CV to jobs@apteco.com. We’re looking forward to learning all about you. Hopefully, one day soon, we’ll be working together as colleagues.

Your personal data

As part of making a job application to us, you need to disclose personal data. We commit to keep this personal data and our assessment of your candidacy confidential and to only use it for your job application. Your personal data will be handled in line with our privacy policy, but in summary, we will retain your application data as part of your staff records if you join us and will remove it after two years if you do not.