# Junior Software Engineer

About the Role At FindMyPast, we're passionate about helping people discover their family stories and connect with their past. As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll play a part in building and improving the products, platforms, and services that make those discoveries possible for millions of customers around the world. Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll gain hands-on experience across the software development lifecycle while learning from experienced colleagues. You'll contribute to live products, develop your technical skills, and build an understanding of how great software supports both customer experiences and business success. This is an exciting opportunity for someone at the start of their engineering career who is curious, eager to learn, and motivated by working on products that have real meaning and impact. What You'll Be Doing Developing, testing, and maintaining software solutions that support FindMyPast's products and services. Contributing to engineering projects that improve the experience for millions of family history enthusiasts worldwide. Collaborating with engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to solve technical challenges and deli

- **Id**: 4201798
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dc-thomson-junior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dundee, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T22:32:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:32:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4359
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Publishing, Digital Media

## Company

- **Id**: 6371
- **Name**: DC Thomson
- **Domain**: dcthomson.co.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dc-thomson>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T22:32:04Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T02:52:15Z

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