Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

*** This remote/hybrid role (could) require 1 day at our office per month, depending on current project demands- the rest is entirely remote.

**When applying: Please be able to demonstrate your technical knowledge or provide your GitHub link or code (i.e NodeJS)

We are a rapidly growing telecommunications and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider that has been at the forefront of corporate communication solutions for over 30 years. A national supplier with a local perspective, we recognise that innovation in the channel is an important differentiator, but customer service is a key element of what we do and something our clients value. Innovation must therefore enhance our technical offer and ability to deliver for our customers.

You are a creative person with the will and drive to bring your innovative ideas to life, developing new and exciting services that our clients want to use. You will be challenged to think from the customer perspective and deliver real results that work for both the company and our new and existing client base as we grow our service offering.

Help us to grow, and we will help you to grow. Your hard work will be rewarded with new opportunities for developing skills that will push you and us forward with new technology and customer innovation.

For this role you will be primarily focusing on the SaaS side of the business to help us build our next generation data platform in AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Please note: this role is a hands-on developer role and not primarily a management role
• Ability to mentor developers.
• Review developer code and use pair programming where required.
• Excellent communication skills
• Building and maintaining AWS based web applications
• Provide recommendations on best technological practices
• Lead in the design of web solution architecture and projects
• Continual testing, development, and maintenance of technologies
• Write logical and maintainable code following the languages’ standards

Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of five years of hands-on experience developing highly available, performant APIs
• Javascript (NodeJS/Typescript)
• Javascript Testing Frameworks eg: Jest
• Databases (relational & document based) including DynamoDB
• AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway)
• VueJS
• Swagger/OpenAPI
• Linux
• Test Driven Development (TDD) or similar
• Experience of integrating third-party libraries into Web Applications
• Understanding of web security of applications

Desirable Skills (but not required):

• Dynamoose

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday in addition to official Bank Holidays
• Increased Holiday with Service
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• Long Service Bonus
• Buy/Sell Holiday Scheme
• 5% employer pension contribution on qualifying earnings
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• High spec work laptop
• Weekly self-learning/development time available

The final stage of the interview process will require an in-person trial day at the Cirencester, UK based office.

Starting Salary Range: £65,000-£85,000

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £65,000.00-£85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• If you are not in the UK, when could you move to the UK to start work? (Must Answer)
• Please demonstrate your experience by providing some of your work FOR EXAMPLE NodeJS Code/Github Link etc (Must Answer)

Experience:

• Software development: 5 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cirencester GL7 1XD