We are recruiting Senior Full Stack Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Full Stack Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Our Senior Full Stack Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a senior consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.
* Your role in nutshell: Act as a technical SME within the squad to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
* Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
* Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
* Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
* Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
* Involved in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
* Promote our Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)
About the Candidate:
* Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
* The full development lifecycle delivering user-centered digital solutions
* A full stack developer skilled in programming using languages such as Python, Node, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
* JavaScript library and framework experience – React, Angular
* Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
* Experience of Microservices design and architecture
* Restful API Services experience
* Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
* Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
* Infrastructure As Code – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
* Expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps
* CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild and Atlassian