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This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; ZURU Edge is pioneering new generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers.\nFounded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations.\nOne of the largest toy companies in the world, globally recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more!\nFor more information, visit www.zuru.com.\nPosition Overview\nThis role builds software for ZURU's own teams - sited inside a business unit rather than a central engineering office. The Junior Engineer owns one problem end to end, from the first conversation with the person who has it to the thing running in production. There is no spec handoff. The business owner names the outcome with the engineer sitting next to them. A separate organization owns ZURU's external product engineering - this role is internal.\nPosition Impact\nAt 6 months, the engineer reaches a Go/No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment, has shipped at least one application that reached its target users, and holds no more than 3 ungraduated applications.\nAt 12 months and beyond, the engineer's work shortens the Group's ask-to-live median - the business days from an accepted ask to the thing live in the asker's hands. Applications reach measured weekly-active adoption against their target population, and each one takes a clean exit - graduating onto the supported estate, retiring, or moving to the team that runs packaged systems.\nWho you are:\nYou can sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do. You direct coding agents well and can tell when the output is wrong. You read and reason about code, and you ship working software - not prototypes. You've built something another person went on to use. Engineering years are not the bar - candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope.\nKey Responsibilities\nDiscovery in Place\nWork inside the business unit and find the context nobody wrote down - the spreadsheet, the manual join, the workaround everyone stopped noticing.\n\nValidation in Days\nDrive to a Go/No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment.\n\nThe artifact sits on the paved path from the first commit - so a no costs a week rather than a project.\n\nBuild on the Rails\nStart every build on the internal tooling that resolves current standards and their automated checks into the repository.\n\nThe standards live in the work, not in a review meeting.\n\nEnd-to-End Ownership\nValidate, build, and hold the application until it graduates.\n\nThe artifact does not change hands.\n\nDirecting Agents\nDirect coding agents against established patterns and judge the output - rather than starting from a blank page.\n\nConsuming Platforms\nTake governed data and the paved path as products other teams own.\n\nRaise a gap in either rather than routing around it.\n\nGraduation & Estate Hygiene\nMake each application reproducible from a clean clone - with the capability version pinned, a runbook in the repository, telemetry wired, an SLO defined, and alerts routed to a rote.\n\nHold 3 or fewer ungraduated applications at any time.\n\nSkills & Experience\nCan sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do\n\nDirects coding agents well - and can tell when the output is wrong\n\nReads and reasons about code, and ships working software rather than prototypes\n\nHas built something that another person went on to use\n\nBusiness-unit background welcome - engineering years are not the bar; candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope\n\nLIFE@ZURU\nZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions-ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).\nAt ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.\nAt ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. 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