I’m a full stack software engineer with a strong background in backend systems, architecture, and system design. I’ve worked on platforms that integrate with external services and handle large volumes of financial and marketing data, but I’m equally comfortable building the user-facing parts that sit on top of them. At Submission Technology, I’ve developed and maintained a range of systems used across finance, marketing, and operations, including financial tooling, analytics platforms, and affiliate integrations. I’ve also worked on customer-facing web and mobile applications, focusing on delivering reliable features and ensuring the frontend and backend fit together cleanly. I care about maintainability, clear reasoning in code, and solid test coverage. I generally think about problems end-to-end, ensuring what we build works behind the scenes and for the people using it.

Jaden Shepherd

I’m a full stack software engineer with a strong background in backend systems, architecture, and system design. I’ve worked on platforms that integrate with external services and handle large volumes of financial and marketing data, but I’m equally comfortable building the user-facing parts that sit on top of them. At Submission Technology, I’ve developed and maintained a range of systems used across finance, marketing, and operations, including financial tooling, analytics platforms, and affiliate integrations. I’ve also worked on customer-facing web and mobile applications, focusing on delivering reliable features and ensuring the frontend and backend fit together cleanly. I care about maintainability, clear reasoning in code, and solid test coverage. I generally think about problems end-to-end, ensuring what we build works behind the scenes and for the people using it.

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I’m a full stack software engineer with a strong background in backend systems, architecture, and system design. I’ve worked on platforms that integrate with external services and handle large volumes of financial and marketing data, but I’m equally comfortable building the user-facing parts that sit on top of them.

At Submission Technology, I’ve developed and maintained a range of systems used across finance, marketing, and operations, including financial tooling, analytics platforms, and affiliate integrations. I’ve also worked on customer-facing web and mobile applications, focusing on delivering reliable features and ensuring the frontend and backend fit together cleanly. I care about maintainability, clear reasoning in code, and solid test coverage. I generally think about problems end-to-end, ensuring what we build works behind the scenes and for the people using it.

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Work Experience

Senior Web Developer at Submission Technology
November 1, 2022 - Present
Build and maintain high-traffic user-facing cashback sites (cashback.co.uk and joincustard.co.uk) using Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and React. Maintain and evolve internal PHP/Laravel platforms. Review pull requests, uphold coding standards, implement linting and static analysis to maintain code quality and support safe, reliable deployments using Ansible AWX. Monitor application behavior and system health with Sentry and New Relic, and investigate production issues to ensure performance and reliability. Share knowledge with other team members about both old and new technologies. Key achievements include migrating the accounting integration from NetSuite to Xero, updating financial workflows and ensuring invoice data remained consistent during the transition; migrating affiliate tracking from Cake to Everflow; contributing to the core development of the React Native Custard mobile app, including functionality for purchasing discounted gift cards and cashback, and leveraging AI
Web Developer at Submission Technology
March 1, 2019 - October 1, 2022
Developed backend services for a Marketing Analytics Platform (Laravel/PHP/React/MySQL) that aggregates performance data from more than 20 external tracking platforms. Implemented scheduled imports that generated queue jobs per newsletter to asynchronously retrieve and process daily statistics, and built REST APIs utilized by a frontend reporting service. Contributed to a Financial Management Platform (Laravel/PHP/MySQL/Redis/Blade) for affiliate financial data, including invoice imports, currency adjustments, and data synchronization with external accounting systems. Built affiliate Offer Management tooling (Laravel/Filament) to poll affiliate networks, normalize data, and provide robust admin interfaces.
Junior Web Developer at Submission Technology
June 1, 2016 - February 1, 2019
Developed new Laravel microservices to support internal business processes and maintained/extended both user-facing and internal legacy CodeIgniter applications.

Education

BSc Computer Science at Northumbria University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016
BSc at Northumbria University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016
BSc Computer Science at Northumbria University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services