Systems Developer

If you’re looking for a progressive and rewarding career and you thrive in a fast-paced, fun and team-orientated environment, then look no further!

Overview of Vax:

Our heritage-rich, expert-led business has always had the same goal: to prioritize innovation and to design easy-to-use products that seamlessly integrate into our customers' lives, offering reliable, quick solutions to cleaning homes, whatever the mess.

Vax has forged its reputation as a brand that focuses on the needs of its customers. Our culture of innovation is at the heart of everything we do and we work hard to constantly think of new ways to improve our products, ensuring that we deliver premium quality products for our customers.

We're now looking for a Systems Developer to join our Information Systems team. Whether you're an early-career developer looking for your next challenge or a developer with some commercial experience ready to accelerate your growth, this is an exciting opportunity to work with modern technologies, cloud platforms, eCommerce systems, and emerging AI solutions.

We work on a hybrid basis; this role will be working 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home

What You'll Be Doing

As a Systems Developer, you'll play a key role in developing, integrating, and supporting the digital platforms that power our business and customer experience.

You'll work across a modern technology stack including Magento, PHP, Node.js, AWS, OpenSearch, APIs, and AI technologies, helping to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and enhancing applications and custom functionality
• Building and supporting services for integrations, automation, and business operations
• Creating secure integrations between eCommerce, operational, and third-party systems
• Supporting and optimising cloud-hosted applications within AWS
• Maintaining monitoring, alerting, and platform observability tools
• Investigating and resolving production issues while improving system reliability
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the business to deliver impactful solutions
• Contributing to API-first, headless, and composable commerce initiatives
• Exploring and implementing AI-enabled capabilities that improve customer and business outcomes
• Supporting continuous improvement and innovation across our technology landscape

What We're Looking For

• Experience with software development and modern software engineering practices
• Exposure to Node.js development and application integrations
• Understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous processing
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Knowledge of Git, code reviews, testing, and CI/CD practices
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Desirable Experience

• AWS cloud services, particularly Lambda
• Monitoring and logging tools such as OpenSearch
• API-first, headless, or composable commerce architectures
• AI-assisted development tools and emerging AI technologies
• Experience with LLMs, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent-based solutions
• Magento development experience
• nodejs, PHP, javascript language understanding

You'll thrive in this role if you are:

• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn
• A logical thinker who enjoys solving complex problems
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
• Passionate about technology and innovation
• Interested in the future of cloud computing, automation, and AI

At Vax we are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe in creating a supportive environment where everyone can thrive and grow.

If you're looking to join a forward-thinking company that values collaboration, innovation, and impact — we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will do what we can to support you.

Please note: Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

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Vax is made up of people who have a shared understanding of our mission and vision. Our values define who we are and what we stand for;

Trust – We’re experts and everything we do is based on brilliant knowledge.

Honesty – Our commitment to doing the right means we are always open and transparent.

Resilience – For decades, we have embraced change and been agile in what we do. We aren’t easily discouraged.

Innovation – We’re curious and explore opportunities, innovating to benefit our customers and business.

Valued – We are better when each of us feels included and respected for who we are and what we contribute.

Energy – We are positive thinkers, excited about what we do.