Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
- Continued enhancement of the Housing Management product portfolio based on customer feedback.
- Continued development and support of Housing Management products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.
- 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...
- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
- Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.
Essential Skills:
- Java 17+
- Spring boot microservices
- Data modelling and SQL development, ideally PostgreSQL
- REST APIs
- AWS
- Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines
- Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
- Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
- Designing and implementing solutions using microservice and event-based architectures.
- Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
- Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
- Working in Agile delivery models.
- Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development.
- Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces.
- Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools.
- Defining infrastructure as code.
Desirable Skills:
- JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React
- HTML / CSS and an awareness of accessibility considerations
- AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora, API Gateway, CDK
- Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
- Performance tuning and testing
- CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Docker
- OpenShift
- Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
- Spring Web Flow and Spring MVC
- OAuth2
- Template engines such as Thymeleaf
- Typescript
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.