The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making. 

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used. 

The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities. 

Tools and Technologies we use: 

We would encourage applications from candidates with experience or interests in the following technologies: 

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform 
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular  
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra   
• DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform 
• AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI  

Main Responsibilities 

• Delivering secure, reliable and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
• Evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations. 
• Defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance. 
• Evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
• Helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services. 

Essential Skills

• Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications, components, modules and documentation. (SWDN)
• Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex programs/scripts. (PROG)
• Designing test cases and scripts under own direction, mapping back predetermined criteria and reporting testing outcomes. (TEST)
• Providing technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for system tests. (SINT)
• Managing and updating data systems, enabling the availability, integrity of searchability of information which can be utilised by many sources. (DATM)
• Maintaining application support processes, ensuring support requests are dealt with to agreed processes, investigating issues, and reporting findings where applicable. (ASUP)