Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Ooni makes kick-ass pizza ovens for the backyard - think world-class pizzas cooked in just 60 seconds! As well as ovens, we’re building software to get incredible pizza to even more people. Our software engineering team is working on exciting new functionality across web and mobile. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can develop world-class software products, mentor our software engineering team, and champion best practices.

Ooni has a hybrid approach to work, with a minimum of 3 days a week (Tuesday to Thursday) at our office at Edinburgh Park.

A Little About the Job
This role will give you end to end involvement in product development, working with our product managers and designers as part of the delivery team. As well as mentoring and supporting, you’ll play a key role in shaping and executing our roadmap to deliver world leading product experiences. We’re looking for someone who can set the bar for how we craft software, while exercising pragmatism to rapidly deliver meaningful value to our customers.

What you'll do:

• Lead the technical development of our Shopify ecommerce websites and the surrounding ecosystem.
• Lead delivery of new features, performance optimisations, integrations, and day-to-day enhancements, ensuring a world-class shopping experience for our customers.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Ecommerce, and Marketing teams to create exceptional customer journeys across our D2C sites.
• Write elegant, maintainable, and well-tested code following modern industry best practices. You’ll review code and have your code reviewed.
• Make and influence key architectural and technical decisions to ensure scalability, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Integrate and manage third-party tools and APIs to enhance site capability and business operations.
• Maintain and evolve custom Shopify themes, apps, Functions, and Checkout Extensibility features.
• Support conversion rate optimisation (CRO) initiatives, including implementing and iterating on A/B tests to continually improve performance.
• Participate in sprint planning and review meetings, ensuring development tasks are accurately specified and delivered on time.
• Stay up to date with Shopify platform updates and proactively identify opportunities to innovate and optimise.
  

What you'll need to succeed:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven experience in Shopify development, including Liquid, Storefront APIs, app development, and Functions.
• Strong frontend engineering skills with modern JavaScript, React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with GraphQL and/or REST APIs, ideally within an ecommerce context.
• Familiarity with CRO principles and hands-on experience running A/B tests.
• Track record of leading web projects end-to-end, from stakeholder engagement through estimation to delivery.
• Comfortable with complex third-party integrations (e.g. search tools, authentication providers, and personalisation platforms).
• Strong understanding of ecommerce best practices and performance optimisation.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with rigorous testing standards and fostering these principles in our engineering team culture.
• Demonstrable ability to learn new platforms, programming languages, and solve technical challenges.
• Experience mentoring or leading other developers is a plus.
• Bonus points for experience with accessibility, analytics, Shopify Plus features, or React Native.
• In a collaborative approach, you work with humility and compassion to arrive at the best solutions.
• Appreciation of and commitment to our company values: Passion, Rigour, Innovation, Ambition, and Kindness.
• A love of all things pizza!!
  

Why Ooni:

• Go to YouTube and search “We are Ooni”. We’re super proud of our culture and think you’ll love it here too. Here are some other reasons:
• Work for an employer that cares about your wellbeing! We’ve got an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching and therapy sessions
• 35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional 5 week sabbatical when you’ve been here for 5 years
• £500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be
• £1000 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni stuff
• We’re all about giving back. That’s why we offer five paid days to volunteer each year
• Great pizza every single day if you want it. Yep. Every single day. And we’ll teach you to become a pizza pro
  

Take a look at our website to learn more about our products, culture and values. If you like what you see, send in your CV with a cover letter to tell us why you want to come on board. We really like nice letters – especially ones that are personalised just for us!

Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive, and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know. You can email us at [email protected]