Full Stack Software Lead
National Security Business
Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.
Working on leading edge technology solutions including AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOPs/SRE, Platform Engineering
We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.
Role:
As a Full Stack Software Lead, you live and breathe leading technical teams from the front; ensuring best practice and delivery whilst gaining exposure to an increasingly interesting customer base. Your knowledge will be deep, you will use it to define novel technical approaches to mission critical projects that keep the country safe.
This isn’t sat in middle management delivering performance reviews, appraisals or sitting through disciplinary meetings; it’s an opportunity to challenge yourself technically at the forefront of innovation whilst mentoring the next generation.
Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.
You will work directly with Roke’s customers to develop and maintain bespoke software that provides both the front end and back end of multiple custom web portals that allows easy interaction, augmentation, processing and control for large volumes of user generated data.
The Full Stack Software Lead will work on a sprintly basis within a scrum team to deliver key value and project increments to our customers. You will work with a variety of back end storage and processing technologies.
You will be responsible for
* Providing direction within the scrum team
* Liaise with the engineering lead
* Be able to help the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories.
* Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
* Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse
* Translate logical designs into physical designs
* Produce detailed designs
* Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
* Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns
* Integrating API / UI components with existing data stores and APIs
* Maintain and develop existing architectural components including Data Ingest, Data Stores and REST APIs
* Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions.
* Assist the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact on
* Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
* Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user
Required skills
* Spring Boot
* Java Enterprise development
* React / VueJS / AngularJS
* Experience of leading small teams Desirable.
* Technologically curious / Willing / Able to tactically upskill new technologies
Built on over a 60 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.
Where you’ll work
GLOUCESTER - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk.
Clearances
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance.
The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.