Senior Developer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Developer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £486/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office. Responsibilities: - Continued enhancement of the customer facing product portfolio based on customer feedback. - Continued development and support of Customer Facing products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt. - Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that’s focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts. - Requirement for software development services - Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in re-quired, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation. - Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience. - Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests – with appropriate code coverage – and code analysis using code quality tools. - Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc... - Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service. - Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc. - Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate. - Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving to-wards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year. Essential Skills: Significant commercial experience with the following technology: - Java 11+ - Python 3 - Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices - Spring security and OAuth2. - JavaScript UI frameworks, including React. - Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations. - OpenShift - Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker. - Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres. Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas: - Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams. - Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects. - Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices. - Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures. - Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks. - Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana. - Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems. - Working in Agile delivery models. - Defining infrastructure as code. - Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, and high-quality interfaces. - Code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools. Desirable Skills: - AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK - Typescript If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch