CANDIDATES MUST LIVE IN UK AND HOLD A BRITISH PASSPORT

Skills and experience Essential

• Expertise in JavaScript with a minimum of 5 years experience

• Layout and presentation skills in HTML, CSS and related technologies

• Web application user interface design skills and experience

• Familiarity with a templating technology (e.g. freemarker, JSX)

• A thorough understanding of web concepts: HTTP, REST, web services, etc.

• Experience working on Agile projects, particularly Kanban or Scrum

Desirable

• Experience of developing for deployment to the public cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Experience using the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)

• Working knowledge of coding best practices: version control, unit testing, CI and documentation

• Comfortable using the command line to support application development and deployment

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions that meet the needs of users by considering the user at every step of the delivery process; from understanding the need to designing the solution and delivery

• Work as an integral member of a small, remote team

• Agree and deliver on sprint commitments

• Design and implement secure software components

• Participate in the iterative user needs analysis and design phases

• Ensure that code is well-tested in development and to take part in systems integration testing where required, to meet the agreed level of quality

• Participate in peer review processes

• Supporting the team through the full release cycle

• Participate in development support for the resolution of bugs, provision of hot fixes and support of the production system as required by application operations

• Supporting the test team where automation is necessary

• To follow and enhance the organisation’s software engineering practices and processes