Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Developer for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £489/day (Outside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
-Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that's focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.
-Extend and sustain the high-quality support procedures, dashboards, monitoring and deployment capabilities to ensure the team can continue to improve services via feedback.
-Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
-Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, techniques and experience. Requirement for software development services
-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 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.
Essential Skills:
-Developing microservice or serverless solutions.
-Making excellent quality software with other people.
-Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations
-Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
-Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
-Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
-Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
-Formal XP engineering techniques
-Defining infrastructure-as-code
Desirable Skills:
-AWS including:
-CDK
-Serverless (Lambda)
-S3
-API Gateway
-Cloud Formation
-Aurora/Postgres
-Typescript
-Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React
-Strong HTML/CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations
-Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
-Testing tools and frameworks, eg, Cypress
-Use of UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.