Description
This role is a senior software developer with proven senior level experience of software development and design. The senior software developer works with Equal Experts and client teams to deliver robust, scalable software as well as improve software delivery and is expected to mentor and share their skills and knowledge with other developers on their projects.
The senior software developer is responsible for the following:
- Providing technical leadership within their team
- Consistently delivering to challenging business objectives and adhere to Service Level Agreements with commercial implications for success and failure
- Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills
- An advocate of different agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, XP, CI/CD
- Introducing Open Source products/tools as appropriate to optimise the delivery timescale and quality of the software product
The following skills and experience are required:
- Java Virtual Machine based environment: Java, Groovy, Scala
- Strong Object Oriented programming skills
- Experience of developing and running code in containerised environments using Kubernetes
- Service Oriented Architectures: ReSTful, SOAP
- ReST Microservices architecture experience
- Experience with version control (GIT/SVN/Mercurial/CVS)
- You will have been involved with all aspects of software delivery and life cycle, from inception phase to delivery
- Have solid experience working on bespoke built enterprise OO applications
- Have successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices and introduced Agile techniques and may have coached teams to apply them effectively, thanks to your outstanding Agile expertise and communication skill
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills, good verbal and written communication skills
At Equal Experts we're building a network of like-minded individuals, who want to work together. There's no pressure to take our assignments, and for that reason we find work that will be attractive to our network. We have a strong footprint in the Public and Private sectors and our clients range from start-ups to large corporates looking to innovate.
With offices in the UK, US, Portugal, India and Canada, our network of over 700 experienced software consultants - a blend of permanent employees and associates - has created software for a wide range of public and private sector clients. These include organisations as diverse as HMRC, the Home Office, O2, Camelot and major institutions in the publishing, financial and retail sectors. Continuing growth saw our total sales reaching £70 million in