Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Full Stack Developer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £425-£465/day (outside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
Development and delivery of a new Invoicing Service and Pre-Payment Service
Continued development and support of Supporting products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps
Demonstrate excellent, sustainable and collaborative software development practice that's focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable and appropriate artefacts.
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, technique and experience.
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, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (Legacy and otherwise) 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:
AWS including:
CDK
Serverless (Lambda)
S3
API Gateway
Cloud Formation
Aurora/Postgres
TypeScript
Node JS
Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React
Strong HTML/CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations
Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:
Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards
Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures
Front and Back End development
Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
Incrementally replacing enterprise Legacy systems
Using CI/CD, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to produce high quality, maintainable code
Working in Agile delivery models
Defining infrastructure as code
Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools
Desirable Skills:
Scripting languages, such as Bash
Oracle databases
Java and/or Python
Kubernetes, especially Openshift
MongoDB
ElasticSearch
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.