Description
Job Title: Software Developer HTML5/SilverLight
Type: Contract (6 months+)
Location: Bracknell/Slough/Reading
Rate: £400 - £500 a day
General
You will be a member of an agile, cross functional team producing commercial software, both cloud native and on-premise. You will participate in modern software practices such as test-driven development, pair programming, automated unit, integration, system and performance testing and continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
Key Responsibilities
Code, unit test and fix defects in software features and deliver them within agreed timescales
Identify and address technical debt
Review code and/or pair program
Participate in collaborative design
Articulate key design options to product stakeholders and iterate based on feedback
Contribute to estimation of new features
Create automated integration, system and performance tests
Create automated deployment pipelines
Exploratory testing
Devise continuous improvements and innovate software delivery through new technologies and technical approaches
Skills
Silverlight to HTML Migration
Large-scale software development, ideally commercial software
Server Side development using C#, Java and/or Kotlin
Web application development using HTML 5, CSS/Sass, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular
Desire to learn and apply other technologies
Strong analytical, problem solving and object-oriented design skills
Automated unit, integration, system and performance testing
Working knowledge of SQL
Ideally experience with No-SQL
Ideally experience with automated provisioning tools (Ansible, Chef, and so on)
Qualifications
Degree or equivalent in a technical, engineering or scientific discipline
8+ years' experience in the software development industry