Description
Backend Software Engineer - Node.JS
Location: Crawley (1 to 2 days a week onsite) mainly remote working
Rate: Circa £60ph inside IR35
6 months initially
Description:
The candidate shall have experience working on browser-based applications fed by a micro-service oriented architecture. The work will be carried out within an Agile development environment, using modern Continuous Integration (CI) processes and tooling.
The work is to help develop the clients next generation of simulation and training services as part of a Software development team, alongside the System engineering team, and integrating with stakeholders from the wider programme community.
Key Tasks
. As part of a team, undertake the specification, design, implementation, test and integration of software in line with required standards.
. Capturing requirements, and in the absence of clearly defined specifications be able to understand the customer's underlying goals in order propose software requirements.
. Interface between the software design and system IVVQ teams to ensure traceable validation of software and system requirements.
. Ability to interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs.
Essential
. Node.JS
. Browser-based application development
. Micro-services
. Java
. Angular or React
Desirable
Knowledge in the following areas is desirable:
. Agile software development
. CI tools (BitBucket, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Maven, Nexus, SonarQube)
. C++ programming experience
. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
. Test-focused development
. Real Time programming
. SQL
. REST API
. JavaScript/TypeScript
. HTML
. CSS
Additional Security Information
Due to the sensitive nature of the product all applicants must hold or be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance (SC level minimum).