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Amber Labs

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Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Enterprise

Amber Labs is a company that empowers businesses through digital, data, cloud, and AI transformation. They provide consulting services across various sectors including the public sector, central government, defense, construction, transport, financial services, and oil & gas. Amber Labs specializes in leveraging digital, AI, and automation technologies to deliver seamless outcomes. Their '360 Consulting' approach offers end-to-end solutions, and their 'elastic teams' adapt to client needs, providing scalable and independent project delivery. The company also offers a 'recruit-to-hire' service to bridge skill gaps, ensuring successful project outcomes.

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• The Company: At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. • Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. • Role Overview: Amber Labs is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our team, working on impactful digital initiatives that modernise government services across the UK. • This role offers the opportunity to design, develop, and maintain critical systems that improve accessibility and efficiency for thousands of users. • You’ll work within a multi-disciplinary agile team, contributing to the development of robust applications and APIs within a modern cloud environment (primarily AWS). • Your work will directly influence service improvements and user experience, ensuring high-quality digital solutions are delivered. • Key Responsibilities: Develop and maintain secure, scalable applications using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS integrations (SNS/SQS). • Collaborate closely with product managers, delivery managers, business analysts, user researchers, and engineers to refine technical direction. • Write clean, testable code following best practices in security, accessibility, and DevOps. • Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and continuous integration/deployment processes. • Troubleshoot and resolve live service issues, ensuring resilience and availability. • Work within GDS (Government Digital Service) standards and contribute to open-source initiatives where applicable.

🎯 Requirements

• Frontend: Ideally some exposure to Frontend frameworks such as Express, Nunjucks, Typescript or similar • Backend: Solid experience with Java and Spring Boot, AWS integrations would be beneficial • Exposure to MongoDB would be beneficial • Exposure to AWS, Terraform (IaC) would be highly regarded. • Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies • Experience in automated testing and writing maintainable code • Ability to take ownership of development work and contribute to planning decisions • Desirable Skills • Knowledge of government digital services • Familiarity with accessibility standards, security best practices, and performance tuning • Understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging

🏖️ Benefits

• Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA. • Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes. • Receive private medical insurance through Aviva. • Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest. • 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays. • Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources. • Participate in a generous employee referral program. • A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement. • Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation. • Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac.