Graduate Software Engineer at Gearset in Cambridge, England, GB

Gearset is the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce - our users can build and manage many aspects of their Salesforce development from within Gearset, from complex CI/CD pipelines to disaster recovery.

The Gearset platform is a standalone tool that sits outside of the Salesforce platform, integrating via public APIs only. So while our engineering team doesn't develop within the Salesforce environment, our users do. So we work closely with those domain experts to build novel solutions to the unique challenges they face, enabling them to make their Salesforce changes quickly and safely.

We live and breathe this approach ourselves: we release new versions of Gearset multiple times a day and we continually invest in improving our own observability and infrastructure tools. This means we can identify and react to issues quickly and delight our users by getting improvements to them as fast as possible.

As a product-driven company founded by engineers, we know the value of a great engineering culture, teamwork and tight feedback loops. We’re confident in our product, market potential, and we have big plans for the future.

Please note - this role will start in September 2025

What’s the opportunity for a Graduate Software Engineer at Gearset?

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• Our small engineering teams start from a few core principles but evolve over time. They all work a little bit differently, depending on their preferences and the problem they're working on. You’ll impact what we build, as well as how we build it.
• A great team does their best work with context and feedback - there’s no substitute for talking directly with the people impacted by our work. Engineers work across the business and talk directly to customers and partners, to ensure we're solving the most pressing problems.
• Our tech stack includes C#, Typescript, React, AWS, Docker, TeamCity. You’ll become familiar with our pragmatically chosen stack, but you’ll also help us define what great looks like

What you’ll achieve

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• Maintain and extend existing features, and collaborate with the rest of the development team to spec, design and build new features end-to-end.
• Learn from your assigned mentor from day one and be supported by a team of people who enjoy helping each other grow their skills.
• Learn a pragmatically-chosen tech stack, including a mix of proven technologies such as Docker, AWS, C#, Typescript, React and TeamCity.
• Work closely with users, delighting them with support, researching new features, and gaining feedback to drive new ideas and ways to improve our solution.
• Contribute opinions on a range of topics, from development practices to product strategy and roadmap, to impact business decisions.

About you

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• Have (or are about to graduate with) a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• Have an interest in frontend and backend development
• Can write code and solve complex problems
• Have a pragmatic approach to working, prioritising iteration and delivering value to customers, over process and deliberation
• Have a passion for learning and continual improvement, being comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• Have a predicted grade of 2:1 or above

Great to haves

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• Familiarity with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Previous experience from an internship in this field
• Contributions to open source projects

We believe that diverse teams perform better, so if your experience doesn’t fit perfectly or you don't meet every single requirement but you’re excited about this role, we’d love for you to apply anyway.

Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)

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• Salary range starting from £41k (depending on experience and qualifications)
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible hybrid home working
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided including your choice of Mac or Windows
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits