Graduate Software Developer

Presto Music is an industry-leading online global retailer selling recorded music (physical, digital and our own streaming service), sheet music, instruments and books.

We are seeking a Graduate Developer to join our in-house team to work on our current website, app, APIs, and back-office systems, as well as provide second-line technical support to our customers. We are looking for a recent graduate in any subject with a passion for programming and a drive to learn. You would be working on a wide variety of projects supported by our existing team, with an opportunity to learn where needed. We are not looking for specific experience, but you will need to be flexible and able to pick up new skills on the job where required, and with help and support.

Some of the systems and technologies you may encounter are:

• Customer-facing website, API and back-end processes using PHP 8.2, twig and sass.
• A React/Capacitor/Electron Streaming app built for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and Web
• nodejs streaming back-end
• FLAC and MPEG4-SLS streaming codecs
• elasticsearch/opensearch
• MySQL/MariaDB supporting a product database of over a million products
• Microsoft Access
  
  

The existing development team of 5 people runs under an Agile methodology with 2-week sprints, culminating in a retrospective to capture learnings helping us to improve and change.

As part of the role you would also provide second-line email technical support to our customers, replying to customers directly or triaging issues to the rest of the development team as appropriate.

The Graduate Developer role is a one-year fixed-term position, with the potential to transition to a Software Developer after one year.

Salary: £27,500 plus benefits

Place of work: Leamington Spa UK (Flexible working considered, but with an expectation of being based in our offices in Leamington Spa)

Interviews July 2024. Expected start date August/September 2024

To Apply

Please email your CV and covering letter (visit prestomusic.com/jobs for address to send covering letter to)

Presto Music is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.We would strongly encourage applications from BAME backgrounds, which are currently underrepresented in our industry.

About Presto Music

Presto Music offers over 1 million classical music-related products to its customers, with a strong focus on product, editorial, reviews, features, interviews, special offers, promotions and awards, plus powerful search and browse tools to help customers find the right products.

Presto Music offers classical music recordings, jazz recordings, downloads, books, instruments & accessories, sheet music and scores to a global online audience. Employees currently number forty-six across the shop, despatch, IT, marketing, customer service, management and editorial departments. Presto is accredited to the Living Wage Foundation and is constantly striving to improve its impact on the environment.