Senior Developer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Developer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £486/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Continued enhancement of the customer facing product portfolio based on customer feedback.

- Continued development and support of Customer Facing products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.

- Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that’s focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.

- Requirement for software development services

- Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in re-quired, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.

- Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.

- Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests – with appropriate code coverage – and code analysis using code quality tools.

- Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc...

- Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.

- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.

- Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.

- Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving to-wards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.

Essential Skills:

Significant commercial experience with the following technology:

- Java 11+

- Python 3

- Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices

- Spring security and OAuth2.

- JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.

- Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations.

- OpenShift

- Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker.

- Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres.

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

- Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.

- Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.

- Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.

- Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures.

- Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.

- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.

- Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.

- Working in Agile delivery models.

- Defining infrastructure as code.

- Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, and high-quality interfaces.

- Code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools.

Desirable Skills:

- AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK

- Typescript

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