Senior Software Engineer - backend services

Job family; Technology, Systems & Delivery

£650-£700 per day

Full time contract, (mon-fri, 35 hours)

Remote (London, Manchester, Cardiff)

Responsible for the design, implementation and operation of software systems including second line support within an Agile and DevOps framework.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Lead the design and development of an effective software system that meets complex product and business needs.

• Review and give constructive feedback on others’ code.

• Drive work to successful completion across the immediate team.

• Write appropriate tests for ensuring code quality and coverage.

• Understands the software with monitoring and support tools.

• Ensure the team's software works in its operating environment.

• Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation.

• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution

• Participate in and lead as required, the team's agile planning and delivery process

• Effectively participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies, such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing and continuous delivery.

• Work with project, product and technical leads to design software and create implementable specifications and tasks at the feature and component level.

• Work with 3rd Party where necessary offering direction, support and documentation.

• Mentor and coach more junior staff. Provide technical leadership and direction to peers and colleagues.

• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate.

Knowledge, skills, training and experience

Key Criteria

• Expertise in one or more mainstream development languages – we use primarily Java with JavaScript and some Python.

• Experience with the RESTful web services.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services.

• Mitigate the non-functional and operational concerns (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience, security considerations)

• Expertise in web architecture and key technologies (HTTP, DNS, distributed design)

• Recent experience working in an Agile environment

• Demonstrable experience in using continuous integration tool – We use Jenkins

• Effective leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence diverse stakeholders effectively.

• Takes responsibility for driving work to completion across the team.

Desirable

• Test-driven development experience.

• Working knowledge of open web standards for Identity and Authentication management like OAuth2, OIDC.

• Experience of mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team

Scope

Line Management: Mentoring of more junior staff.

Ad-hoc Teams: Participates in ad-hoc teams with up to 30 members

Participation in process or technology strategy working groups as SME or to represent their team/division

Participation in cross-divisional forums for improvement of share tools and practices

Occasional participation as a temporary member in another unit or department as SME

Organisation structure

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