About the role
Edinburgh Airport’s Software Engineering Team works to create digital experiences which help make travel better. Our products include passenger-facing websites, internal tools to help the airport operate smoothly and efficiently, and our multi-airport ecommerce platform (AirportX), which we’re continuing to scale globally. We’ve got some very exciting projects on the go, and we need you to help us deliver them.
The Software Engineering team is a small, distributed team of highly skilled engineers who work across the entire stack. We’re looking for someone who can bring their knowledge and experience to the team and who will get involved in generating product & feature ideas, launching prototypes and MVPs, AB testing changes and then launching these products and features to production.
Our tech stack includes (but is not limited to) Claude Code, PHP, Symfony, Alpine.js, MySQL and Google Cloud.
About the recruitment process
The recruitment process for this role will be a 2 stage interview process. Firstly you will have a short Teams call with our Revenue Manager and another member of our Digital team, to find out more about your background and interest in the role. Successful candidates will then be invited to a second stage interview, which will include competency, values and technical questions.
Please note, our interview process may be adjusted depending on the volume of candidates. We are committed to supporting diverse ways of thinking and working, so if you require adjustments in the recruitment process, please let us know on your application. You can find out more about our interview process and the types of questions we ask here.
What you’ll be doing
- Use AI to work across the entire stack using modern technology and frameworks such as Claude Code, Symfony and Google Cloud Platform
- Learn about the exciting world of aviation and build digital experiences to help make travel better for our passengers
- Get involved with product discussions and decisions
- Build out our multi-airport ecommerce platform and help us scale to airports across the globe
- Share knowledge and promote best practices with the other engineers
What we’re looking for
- Experienced in building software with AI using tools such as Claude Code
- You’ve worked in a small company, startup, scale-up or similarly lean engineering team and you’re comfortable owning a problem end-to-end
- Strong experience in Software Engineering using either JavaScript or PHP
- Experienced in building and integrating APIs
- You’ve worked at an ecommerce and/or SaaS company
- You can build things that look good, run fast and are secure
- Experience building airport products or passenger travel experiences, particularly airport parking, FastTrack, lounges or ancillary services
- Experience working with data pipelines using Python and Apache Airflow
- Experience with scaling websites globally
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically GCP (Cloud Run, PubSub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Composer, Networking, Load Balancing)
- Experience integrating online payment processors such as Stripe and Adyen
We have fun and look out for each other
We like a challenge
We have a bias for action
We have a love for learning and innovation
We are proud of what we do and we care about delivering good results
We have freedom to set our own priorities and decide which tools we use
We can identify Scandinavian countries by their road markings
What we’ll offer you
- Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
- 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
- Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
- We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here
Why EDI?
We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. We offer in-house and external training, both role specific and based on your objectives.
As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We will ask questions based on our values during your interview, as we’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.
We give colleagues the opportunity to engage with different people and projects, within our business and beyond. You can get involved in a variety of different employee groups, including Diversity, STEM, Wellbeing, or create your own community – it’s important to us that you can share your interests and be yourself at work.
