Description
Job Title: Senior Developer - Interim/Contractor
Location: Bristol, London, Manchester
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Day Rate: £550
Contract Length: 6 months
Deliverables
- build RESTful web services to serve a variety of citizen and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce
- implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
- build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
- share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team, both developers and non-developers
- act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, eg through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc
- support the live operation of the services we run, and participate in out-of-hours support rotas where necessary - you'll be paid an allowance, and a further hourly payment, for any duties you perform when on call
- be involved in helping recruit developers and where appropriate, helping sift and interview
- provide technical leadership within team, advising and working with developers to identify the best solutions
- have and apply broad knowledge of web technologies
- take responsibility for solving complex issues
Skills
- have experience in Back End development with detailed knowledge of either Node.js and/or Ruby
- understand software design principles
- can confidently and independently research and learn new programming tools and techniques
- take a systematic approach to solving problems
- have experience of using automated testing and test driven development to validate solutions
- understand agile environments and version control
- have a good understanding of web and software security
- have an awareness of web accessibility
- have an awareness of technologies used for web applications, eg databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, eg Linux and/or Mac OS
- have experience working on, or with web technologies
- are familiar with working practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps
- have experience in leadership, helping colleagues with their career development and coaching more junior staff members
Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.