Staff Full Stack Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Full Stack Engineer to support the growth of our unique business. You’ll work closely with multi-disciplinary teams (product managers, engineers, support specialists, data scientists) to build our digital services with the needs of our customers at the heart. We’ll look to your lead on implementing our strategy, build high performing teams, mentor our full stack engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. This is a technical role, with an expected effort split of around 60/40 in favor of development across the year.

 If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. Our Full Stack Engineers are embedded as experts in agile multi-disciplinary feature teams, and they’re part of a larger Engineering team that takes on all development work for our product.

 Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable applications to meet our company’s needs, ensuring system consistency in application design, implementation, and user experience.

 Responsibilities:

Lead in the development and maintenance of secure, scalable, resilient code using an Agile/Scrum TDD approach.
Lead on the improvement of our coding standards and processes and ensure you’re role modeling good practice.
Line managing, coaching & mentoring full stack engineers; including task management.
Participate in the entire DevOps lifecycle
Be part of management team for the Engineering department
Manage & provide on-call technical support as part of a sensible rota.
Providing guidance and system design support in line with your skill set.
Write clean code to develop functional web applications
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Manage and research cutting-edge technologies to improve our solutions
Gather and address technical and design requirements
Provide training and support to junior members
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Liaise with the wider team to identify new features
Manage and guide the development of junior full stack engineers
Follow emerging technologies
Write and own functional requirement documents and guides for your area
Manage the creation of quality mock-ups and prototypes
Ensure high-quality design standards and brand consistency
 

Requirements:

Experience leading software engineering in multi-disciplinary agile/DevOps environments
Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies.
Proven work experience as a senior level Full Stack Engineer supported by a portfolio of personal and/or professional projects.
Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
In-depth understanding of the entire DevOps lifecycle and associated technologies (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Git etc.)
Proven skill with Java and one of more of the following; Python, C, C++, PHP
Skilled with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS) and libraries; specifically React, D3 etc.
Hands-on experience with web server technology (NGINX specifically)
Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
Familiarity with Agile SCRUM/LEAN
Understanding of layout aesthetics (high-level UI/UX)
An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
What’s in it for you?

Private medical and dental insurance
25 days holiday as standard
Club Decibel takes care of all your non-work needs: Free healthy snacks, office massages, Friday drinks, Company 5-a-side football and weekly clubs including coding, languages and running.
Exposure to an exciting, fast-paced company that is growing internationally and where fresh ideas and collaborative working are the norms
Solid progression opportunities
Sanctus mental health coaching
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