Description
My client, a public sector body, are looking to recruit a Senior Developer to join an existing multi-disciplinary user-focused digital delivery team working on building a system aimed at staff in schools.
You will be working closely with the Technical Architect and other team members to design and develop a simple and sustainable service, including considerations for operability.
You will need to be familiar with modern languages and frameworks, as well as working practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps.
The contract is based in Sheffield and can be up to 12 months, with the Private Beta to last 12 weeks. Ideally you will be co-located with their team in Sheffield, but remote working will be considered.
In order to be successful you must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least one programming language.
- Experience of using NodeJS to build and run production systems.
- Detailed understanding and experience of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Ability to develop efficient and clear code and systems.
- Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance.
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Experience working on technical projects within an agile team.
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
- Familiarity with DevOps and continuous iterative delivery principles.