Software Engineer Product, Design and Technology · UK ·
Sedex, Mission, KS, United States
About Sedex
Sedex is a trusted partner for over 100,000 businesses worldwide, helping them create socially and environmentally sustainable supply chains. Through our platform's powerful data insights and expert guidance, we simplify the management, assessment, and reporting of sustainability performance.
Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable. Our Mission is To provide data-driven insights, accessible tools, and exceptional services that support businesses in improving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and outcomes.
The Role
We are looking for a software engineer to join one of our cross‑functional product delivery teams. You will primarily work on backend services in Kotlin but will be expected to contribute to the frontend codebase (React.js) at times, with support from our frontend specialists. You will be a product‑minded engineer, working together with the product manager and designer in your team to understand customer needs and write software to meet them.
You will work with engineers in your team and across the business to design and build maintainable, secure and reliable systems in an iterative fashion. You will contribute to a culture of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, where 10+ deploys to production per day are done in a safe, tested manner and the team owns the operability, performance and other non‑functional requirements of the software it builds.
Main Responsibilities
In the First Four Weeks
Familiarise yourself with the domain and systems within the scope of your team
Understand the overall architectural landscape in which your systems live
Gain a solid understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, and a good working knowledge of the production environment
Familiarise with and begin monitoring the operational data and metrics from the production environment
Become productive and start shipping features with the support of your team
Build relationships with your immediate team and key cross‑functional partners
Make a positive impact to your team, establishing yourself as open, approachable, and eager to contribute
Understand and embed into the team processes and cycles
Build an understanding of how the business operates, especially in the domain area of your team
Ongoing Responsibilities
Design and Deliver
Implement high-quality, test‑driven solutions
Break down your work into small, releasable increments that deliver genuine business value, continuously integrating with the code trunk
Contribute to architectural discussions and help the team design well‑considered solutions
Identify and raise technical risk, technical debt, and non‑functional requirements
Monitor and support your code in production
Collaborate and Contribute
Participate actively in code reviews, planning, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing
Work collaboratively with your teammates, including through pair‑programming and mobbing
Support less experienced engineers in the team
Contribute to the wider engineering community at Sedex
AI‑Assisted Development
Use AI coding assistants as a core part of your daily development workflow — for writing and refactoring code, generating tests, and exploring implementation approaches
Critically evaluate AI‑generated output before integrating it, ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability
Stay current with the evolving AI development tooling landscape and actively adopt tools that improve your productivity.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
2–4+ years of commercial experience working in software engineering teams, using agile methodologies and test‑driven approaches
Proficiency in a backend programming language — Kotlin, Java, C#, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js), Python etc.
Solid knowledge of automated testing at various levels and the use of TDD to drive your software design
A good understanding of modern architectural patterns and designs, including service‑oriented architecture, API design, and integration patterns
Experience with containerisation for packaging and running applications locally and in the cloud (Docker)
Good knowledge of database design and the ability to write software that interacts with both relational and NoSQL databases
Good knowledge of CI/CD practices and a DevOps mindset
An openness to AI‑assisted development and a willingness to integrate AI tools into your daily workflow
A keen focus on creating customer value
A strong sense of accountability and ownership
A positive, solutions‑focused attitude and resilience in the face of change
Excellent communication skills
A desire to work collaboratively with other engineers (pair‑programming, mobbing)
Bonus points for:
Experience with Kotlin on the JVM
Familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm
Experience with message‑based architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka)
Experience contributing to web frontends using React.js
Experience using AI coding assistants in a commercial context
What Exceptional Candidates Often Look Like
They deliver high‑quality software consistently and take pride in the craft
They write code that others find easy to read, test, and extend
They think carefully about how their code behaves in production
They simplify rather than over‑engineer
They look for opportunities to automate repetitive work
They seek feedback proactively and act on it quickly
They show genuine curiosity — they read the codebase, ask good questions, and invest in understanding the why
They use AI coding assistants with skill and judgment — getting strong results while critically interrogating output and knowing when not to rely on them
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Sedex is a trusted partner for over 100,000 businesses worldwide, helping them create socially and environmentally sustainable supply chains. Through our platform's powerful data insights and expert guidance, we simplify the management, assessment, and reporting of sustainability performance.
Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable. Our Mission is To provide data-driven insights, accessible tools, and exceptional services that support businesses in improving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and outcomes.
The Role
We are looking for a software engineer to join one of our cross‑functional product delivery teams. You will primarily work on backend services in Kotlin but will be expected to contribute to the frontend codebase (React.js) at times, with support from our frontend specialists. You will be a product‑minded engineer, working together with the product manager and designer in your team to understand customer needs and write software to meet them.
You will work with engineers in your team and across the business to design and build maintainable, secure and reliable systems in an iterative fashion. You will contribute to a culture of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, where 10+ deploys to production per day are done in a safe, tested manner and the team owns the operability, performance and other non‑functional requirements of the software it builds.
Main Responsibilities
In the First Four Weeks
Familiarise yourself with the domain and systems within the scope of your team
Understand the overall architectural landscape in which your systems live
Gain a solid understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, and a good working knowledge of the production environment
Familiarise with and begin monitoring the operational data and metrics from the production environment
Become productive and start shipping features with the support of your team
Build relationships with your immediate team and key cross‑functional partners
Make a positive impact to your team, establishing yourself as open, approachable, and eager to contribute
Understand and embed into the team processes and cycles
Build an understanding of how the business operates, especially in the domain area of your team
Ongoing Responsibilities
Design and Deliver
Implement high-quality, test‑driven solutions
Break down your work into small, releasable increments that deliver genuine business value, continuously integrating with the code trunk
Contribute to architectural discussions and help the team design well‑considered solutions
Identify and raise technical risk, technical debt, and non‑functional requirements
Monitor and support your code in production
Collaborate and Contribute
Participate actively in code reviews, planning, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing
Work collaboratively with your teammates, including through pair‑programming and mobbing
Support less experienced engineers in the team
Contribute to the wider engineering community at Sedex
AI‑Assisted Development
Use AI coding assistants as a core part of your daily development workflow — for writing and refactoring code, generating tests, and exploring implementation approaches
Critically evaluate AI‑generated output before integrating it, ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability
Stay current with the evolving AI development tooling landscape and actively adopt tools that improve your productivity.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
2–4+ years of commercial experience working in software engineering teams, using agile methodologies and test‑driven approaches
Proficiency in a backend programming language — Kotlin, Java, C#, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js), Python etc.
Solid knowledge of automated testing at various levels and the use of TDD to drive your software design
A good understanding of modern architectural patterns and designs, including service‑oriented architecture, API design, and integration patterns
Experience with containerisation for packaging and running applications locally and in the cloud (Docker)
Good knowledge of database design and the ability to write software that interacts with both relational and NoSQL databases
Good knowledge of CI/CD practices and a DevOps mindset
An openness to AI‑assisted development and a willingness to integrate AI tools into your daily workflow
A keen focus on creating customer value
A strong sense of accountability and ownership
A positive, solutions‑focused attitude and resilience in the face of change
Excellent communication skills
A desire to work collaboratively with other engineers (pair‑programming, mobbing)
Bonus points for:
Experience with Kotlin on the JVM
Familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm
Experience with message‑based architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka)
Experience contributing to web frontends using React.js
Experience using AI coding assistants in a commercial context
What Exceptional Candidates Often Look Like
They deliver high‑quality software consistently and take pride in the craft
They write code that others find easy to read, test, and extend
They think carefully about how their code behaves in production
They simplify rather than over‑engineer
They look for opportunities to automate repetitive work
They seek feedback proactively and act on it quickly
They show genuine curiosity — they read the codebase, ask good questions, and invest in understanding the why
They use AI coding assistants with skill and judgment — getting strong results while critically interrogating output and knowing when not to rely on them
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