Software Engineer (Hack/PHP)- London/ Remote- 12 Months- £50-£55 ph PAYE
A global powerhouse within the social media industry is looking for a Software Engineer (Hack/PHP) to join their team on a 12 month contract.
The team's mission is to build world-class UI experiences for critical monitoring infrastructure, including Detection, Investigation, and Incident Management. If you are looking to be part of a fast-moving team, work closely with UX designers, build intuitive products, and own the UX this is the opportunity for you!
Responsibilities
- Designing technical solutions for complex problems
- Developing and implementing changes for internal products.
- Building and testing internal products for on calls and first responders as required.
- Driving execution of project independently
- Collaborating with Product Designers and internal users to deliver compelling internal-facing web-based UI tools/products to enhance productivity of engineers & on calls
- Following UI design principles and making products work intuitively.
- Investigating and finding resolution of issues encountered by users or other engineers.
- Supporting customers in user groups by proposing solutions to their issues and creating bugs / feature requests.
- Conducting design and code reviews for other engineering
Skills
- 8+ years long experience in Hack (PHP), or other backend technology, React, and GraphQL (Python / C++ would be sufficient instead of Hack)
- Have a portfolio of past work and/or an active GitHub profile.
- Problem solving - ability to take an algorithmic problem, analyse it, and drive it through the resolution with optimal space and time complexity
- Participation in competitive programming
- Experience in driving 6+ months long projects
- Experience in building products and user interfaces
- Experience in understanding large code bases, including API design techniques.
- Ability to learn quickly and being a team player
- Code verification / testing and shipping high quality and clean code
- Ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issues.
- Ability to drive the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and planning, to development, testing and delivery.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
- Basic mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
- Verbal/written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service & interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
- Knowledge of computer hardware and software.
- Knowledge of computer development software as it relates to systems (SQL, VisualBasic, etc.)
Education/Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
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PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.