PODFather
Edinburgh, Midlothian
28,000 to £35,000 pa depending on experience About Podfather At Podfather, we believe in the potential of every team member. We build software solutions that drive real world success for our customers, and we know that our future relies on nurturing the next generation of engineering talent. We are looking for an enthusiastic, self motivated Junior Software Engineer to join our supportive, hands on development team. If you are an early career engineer eager to build your skills, learn from senior mentors, and make a meaningful impact on a growing business, your journey starts here. The role: learning, growing, and delivering As a Junior Software Engineer, you will dive straight into the software engineering world by working on well defined tasks. You won't be doing it alone, you will collaborate closely with senior engineers and our Lead Software Engineer, who will guide you every step of the way. Over time, as your confidence and codebase knowledge grow, you'll take on increasingly complex challenges and gain greater independence. Key responsibilities Deliver quality code: Write clean, functional code and documentation according to Podfather's coding standards. Collaborative code reviews: Actively participate in the code review process, both preparing your code for deployment with the Lead Engineer and, over time, reviewing code from other teams. Security mindset: Learn and implement secure coding practices, enforce access control (the principle of least privilege), manage secure patches/updates, and assist with system monitoring. Team collaboration: Stay in regular communication with your team lead and peers, share progress updates, and flag blockers early to help the team meet its collective goals. What we are looking for We value passion, curiosity, and mindset just as much as your current technical ability. We are looking for someone who brings: A Foundation in STEM subjects: For software engineers that means a good understanding of core software development principles, such as object oriented design, SOLID principles, and coding best practices. For candidates with a mathematical background, it's a good understanding of discrete mathematics, linear algebra, combinatorics, and a desire to learn programming. An Insatiable Curiosity: A desire to understand how complex systems work, a proactive approach to asking questions, and a drive to expand your technical skills quickly. Strong Communication: The ability to communicate effectively with more experienced engineers, accept feedback graciously, and collaborate openly. A Proactive Mindset: Someone who doesn't just wait to be told what to do, but brings fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and initiative to every task. What's in it for you? Mentorship & career growth: Direct guidance from senior engineering talent and a structured path toward independence. Holistic development: You won't just learn to code; you'll understand the commercial implications of your work and how it drives customer success. Ongoing training: Full support and training in security, compliance, development best practices, and new technologies. A positive culture: Join a team that values open, honest, and constructive feedback in a supportive environment.
28,000 to £35,000 pa depending on experience About Podfather At Podfather, we believe in the potential of every team member. We build software solutions that drive real world success for our customers, and we know that our future relies on nurturing the next generation of engineering talent. We are looking for an enthusiastic, self motivated Junior Software Engineer to join our supportive, hands on development team. If you are an early career engineer eager to build your skills, learn from senior mentors, and make a meaningful impact on a growing business, your journey starts here. The role: learning, growing, and delivering As a Junior Software Engineer, you will dive straight into the software engineering world by working on well defined tasks. You won't be doing it alone, you will collaborate closely with senior engineers and our Lead Software Engineer, who will guide you every step of the way. Over time, as your confidence and codebase knowledge grow, you'll take on increasingly complex challenges and gain greater independence. Key responsibilities Deliver quality code: Write clean, functional code and documentation according to Podfather's coding standards. Collaborative code reviews: Actively participate in the code review process, both preparing your code for deployment with the Lead Engineer and, over time, reviewing code from other teams. Security mindset: Learn and implement secure coding practices, enforce access control (the principle of least privilege), manage secure patches/updates, and assist with system monitoring. Team collaboration: Stay in regular communication with your team lead and peers, share progress updates, and flag blockers early to help the team meet its collective goals. What we are looking for We value passion, curiosity, and mindset just as much as your current technical ability. We are looking for someone who brings: A Foundation in STEM subjects: For software engineers that means a good understanding of core software development principles, such as object oriented design, SOLID principles, and coding best practices. For candidates with a mathematical background, it's a good understanding of discrete mathematics, linear algebra, combinatorics, and a desire to learn programming. An Insatiable Curiosity: A desire to understand how complex systems work, a proactive approach to asking questions, and a drive to expand your technical skills quickly. Strong Communication: The ability to communicate effectively with more experienced engineers, accept feedback graciously, and collaborate openly. A Proactive Mindset: Someone who doesn't just wait to be told what to do, but brings fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and initiative to every task. What's in it for you? Mentorship & career growth: Direct guidance from senior engineering talent and a structured path toward independence. Holistic development: You won't just learn to code; you'll understand the commercial implications of your work and how it drives customer success. Ongoing training: Full support and training in security, compliance, development best practices, and new technologies. A positive culture: Join a team that values open, honest, and constructive feedback in a supportive environment.
PODFather
Edinburgh, Midlothian
As a Senior Database Administrator, you'll be the steward of the data layer that powers Podfather. Working closely with our Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and CTO, you will keep our databases reliable, performant, and well-designed as the business grows. If you love solving real-world problems, collaborating with a passionate team, and making a tangible impact every day, we want to hear from you. Who is Podfather? With our team of around 60 people working remotely or at our Edinburgh head office, we believe that we can offer you something special here at Podfather. Our whole ethos is about creating a unique and rewarding experience for both our customers and our employees. When you work here, you will get involved with challenging projects within a fun and friendly environment. We are a medium-sized company, which means you get to be part of multiple projects, wear different hats, and truly see the difference your work makes. We develop and deliver industry-leading route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) technology to the logistics, construction, and field service sectors. We have some huge clients, and some tiny ones, and because we are growing fast, now is a great time to join our team. At Podfather, we're guided by our core values: reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You'll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers. Where do you fit in? We recognise that impact in this role can be made in different ways, and that there are different 'shapes' of DBA. Depending on your background and interests, this role may lean more towards day-to-day operations and tuning, or more towards schema design and working alongside application developers. In this role, you will be joining our Engineering & Infrastructure team. You will focus on: Database Operations: Take ownership of the day-to-day health of our MariaDB/MySQL estate, monitoring, backups, replication, capacity, upgrades, and patching, ensuring the platform stays reliable and recoverable. Schema Design & Evolution: Design new schemas and evolve existing ones to support new product features, working with engineers to ensure changes are safe to deploy, performant at scale, and easy to maintain over time. Performance & Scaling: Identify performance hotspots, tune queries/indexes, and help the team plan for growth as we scale to hundreds of thousands of users. Driving Change & Problem Solving: Identify, understand, and resolve critical database and data-integrity issues. You'll articulate database trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike to drive high-leverage improvements. Information Security: Handle data securely throughout its lifecycle (encryption at rest/in transit), enforce the principle of least privilege, manage secure authentication, and handle patches/updates to protect the database estate. Technical Expertise We are looking for a skilled practitioner who can lead database work to successful technical outcomes by factoring in technical debt, data modelling, stability, security, and business needs. Query Optimisation: Comfortable reading and optimising SQL using execution plans, indexes, and configuration tuning. Resilience & Observability: Responsible for backup strategies, replication, and disaster recovery procedures (including regular verification). You will fill database monitoring and alerting gaps to stop issues before they become incidents. Application Layer Collaboration: Work closely with engineers writing application code (primarily PHP at Podfather) to review how the application talks to the database, ensuring migrations are a routine process rather than a risky event. Incident Management: Take a leading role in debugging complex database issues, managing incidents, and collaborating with support teams to share known workarounds. Required Skills MariaDB/MySQL experience. Some experience of growing databases to scale, to hundreds of thousands of users and beyond. Some application development experience; PHP would be preferred, but any experience working with a mature codebase would be fine. Preferred Skills AWS experience preferred, but other cloud experience would be also be helpful. Data warehousing experience. Experience of database scaling technologies such as sharding, pagination, replicas, caching, proxying Experience of wider database technologies such as NoSQL, Graph, time-series DBs Apply now! Ready to help us scale the data layer behind our expanding platform? If you are interested in joining the Podfather team, please email your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for the role to .
As a Senior Database Administrator, you'll be the steward of the data layer that powers Podfather. Working closely with our Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and CTO, you will keep our databases reliable, performant, and well-designed as the business grows. If you love solving real-world problems, collaborating with a passionate team, and making a tangible impact every day, we want to hear from you. Who is Podfather? With our team of around 60 people working remotely or at our Edinburgh head office, we believe that we can offer you something special here at Podfather. Our whole ethos is about creating a unique and rewarding experience for both our customers and our employees. When you work here, you will get involved with challenging projects within a fun and friendly environment. We are a medium-sized company, which means you get to be part of multiple projects, wear different hats, and truly see the difference your work makes. We develop and deliver industry-leading route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) technology to the logistics, construction, and field service sectors. We have some huge clients, and some tiny ones, and because we are growing fast, now is a great time to join our team. At Podfather, we're guided by our core values: reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You'll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers. Where do you fit in? We recognise that impact in this role can be made in different ways, and that there are different 'shapes' of DBA. Depending on your background and interests, this role may lean more towards day-to-day operations and tuning, or more towards schema design and working alongside application developers. In this role, you will be joining our Engineering & Infrastructure team. You will focus on: Database Operations: Take ownership of the day-to-day health of our MariaDB/MySQL estate, monitoring, backups, replication, capacity, upgrades, and patching, ensuring the platform stays reliable and recoverable. Schema Design & Evolution: Design new schemas and evolve existing ones to support new product features, working with engineers to ensure changes are safe to deploy, performant at scale, and easy to maintain over time. Performance & Scaling: Identify performance hotspots, tune queries/indexes, and help the team plan for growth as we scale to hundreds of thousands of users. Driving Change & Problem Solving: Identify, understand, and resolve critical database and data-integrity issues. You'll articulate database trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike to drive high-leverage improvements. Information Security: Handle data securely throughout its lifecycle (encryption at rest/in transit), enforce the principle of least privilege, manage secure authentication, and handle patches/updates to protect the database estate. Technical Expertise We are looking for a skilled practitioner who can lead database work to successful technical outcomes by factoring in technical debt, data modelling, stability, security, and business needs. Query Optimisation: Comfortable reading and optimising SQL using execution plans, indexes, and configuration tuning. Resilience & Observability: Responsible for backup strategies, replication, and disaster recovery procedures (including regular verification). You will fill database monitoring and alerting gaps to stop issues before they become incidents. Application Layer Collaboration: Work closely with engineers writing application code (primarily PHP at Podfather) to review how the application talks to the database, ensuring migrations are a routine process rather than a risky event. Incident Management: Take a leading role in debugging complex database issues, managing incidents, and collaborating with support teams to share known workarounds. Required Skills MariaDB/MySQL experience. Some experience of growing databases to scale, to hundreds of thousands of users and beyond. Some application development experience; PHP would be preferred, but any experience working with a mature codebase would be fine. Preferred Skills AWS experience preferred, but other cloud experience would be also be helpful. Data warehousing experience. Experience of database scaling technologies such as sharding, pagination, replicas, caching, proxying Experience of wider database technologies such as NoSQL, Graph, time-series DBs Apply now! Ready to help us scale the data layer behind our expanding platform? If you are interested in joining the Podfather team, please email your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for the role to .