Moonpig is an online business that sells personalised greeting cards, flowers and gifts. The website was launched in July 2000. They are now the largest online personalised cards retailer in Europe, Sales are C£90m and growing. Moonpig own their supply chain end to end – by manufacturing and printing the products they sell via the web and mobile.

Due to continued growth and wanting to attract talent in the UK, the CTO has been tasked with driving innovation through technology. With this in mind and following insight provided by Uniting Ambition regarding the North West market, Moonpig made a strategic decision to open a new office based in Manchester for their new Software Engineering team. 

 The team will be responsible for greenfield, innovative development and evolving their current landscape to a Microservices technology platform. Uniting Ambition are partnering with Moonpig to support the creation of the new team of 50 Software Engineers in Manchester. Due to the competitive market within the North West and scale of recruitment needed, Uniting Ambition have been presented with a number of challenges around culture, and availability of top quartile talent with based in the North West.

Uniting Ambition initially worked closely with the CTO, Director of Software Engineering and the Head of Talent to help to build a high performing team. The Technology stack is working predominately across REACT, C#.net, Microservices, AWS, with the 50 roles covering: