Software Engineer - Search

We’re the Moonpig Group – home to Moonpig, Greetz, Red Letter Days and Buyagift – and we’re on a mission to make people feel loved, celebrated and remembered. Whether it’s a card that gets them laughing out loud or a gift that makes their day, we help people stay close, no matter the miles. We’re proud to be leading the online gifting revolution, with brilliant products, clever tech and a whole lot of heart. Our platform makes it easy to create moments that matter – packed with personal touches and delivered with care. We’re not just about selling cards or gifts – we’re here to spread joy, spark smiles and make every celebration feel extra special. And with values that guide how we work and support one another, we’ve built a place where people (and ideas) can truly thrive. If you’re looking to make an impact, bring your spark and be part of something meaningful – we’d love to have you on the team. 🌙🐷 Software Engineer (Search) |📍 Manchester – Hybrid | 💰Competitive Salary + Benefits About the Role We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Search team at Moonpig. Search plays a huge role in helping millions of customers explore our extensive product catalogue and create meaningful moments with the people they care about. You’ll work on highly scalable, resilient systems using technologies like Opensearch, AWS serverless, .NET, and React, contributing to features that directly shape the customer experience. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys learning fast, collaborating widely, and building thoughtful, well-engineered solutions. Our expectations of our Software Engineers:

Drive Meaningful Developer Impact: Our goal is to enhance the developer experience by prioritising high-value initiatives that remove friction, improve efficiency, and empower teams. We focus on clear planning while remaining adaptable to evolving engineering needs.

High Quality: Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-performance solutions, all while maintaining a fast delivery pace.

Community Mindset: Engage with the engineering community within Moonpig, sharing knowledge and contributing to the continuous improvement of our practices.

Open-Mindedness: Strive for improvement by being open to feedback, giving constructive feedback to others, and being willing to try new ideas. This openness is key to our ongoing success.

Growth: Be actively engaged in your own growth, embracing challenges while feeling supported in your role.

Key Responsibilities

Be part of a cross-functional team designing, building, and A/B testing new features to improve how customers discover products

Use agile principles to scope, track, and deliver work from idea through to production

Contribute ideas to roadmap planning and help shape how we evolve our search capabilities

Build and maintain backend integrations with our search engine and AWS-based infrastructure

Develop and maintain customer-facing features using React, GraphQL, and modern frontend practices

Write clean, maintainable code using technologies including AWS, Terraform, Node.js, .NET, C#, TypeScript, and GitHub CI/CD pipelines

Create and maintain appropriate tests to ensure reliability and safety across the codebase

Support client teams integrating with our services, offering guidance and technical support

Collaborate with engineers and data teams to design and deliver AI/ML-driven features using internal ML APIs and external LLMs

Actively learn from colleagues and contribute to a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement

About You

You enjoy working collaboratively and thrive in highly cross-functional teams

You’re motivated by solving problems and improving how things work

You have experience or a strong interest in search technologies such as Opensearch

You’ve worked with parts of our tech stack, including AWS serverless, React, Node.js, TypeScript, or GraphQL

You have experience across frontend and backend development, or you’re keen to continue growing as a full-stack engineer

You’re curious, eager to learn, and open to new tools, processes, and ways of working

You can contribute to technical discussions and help deliver high-quality solutions

Experience with serverless or event-driven systems is a bonus

Our Tech Environment

Opensearch

AWS (serverless architecture)

.NET / C#

React

 Node.js

TypeScript

GraphQL

Terraform

How We Get There

We work in small, empowered teams with shared ownership

We value thoughtful engineering, continuous learning, and collaboration

We focus on building simple, scalable solutions that make a real difference for our customers