Senior Developer

JOB DETAILS: Role: Senior Developer / Lead Developer Location: Reading, UK (Hybrid) Type of Hiring: Contract Job Description: We are looking for a versatile lead engineer who will work directly with our billing application team to enhance our saas offering for our customers. This candidate needs to display leadership and self-motivation qualities and be enthused to take on new problems across various languages and platforms. They will contribute to the tooling, platforms and applications produced by the team to support products and engineers alike. As a lead software engineer in this team you will be contributing to: ·The Sign up and Billing of SaaS services ·Security and Architecture standards, designs and foundational guidance for applications and infrastructure that are being developed on Cloud platform You are great at: ·Designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining and improving software. ·Designing and building cloud-first software infrastructure and solutions. ·Working with and developing for major cloud platforms such as GCP ·Building highly maintainable, easy-to-understand code in the cloud, including web services, web, iOS, and Android. ·Being proactive - willing to work on any problem, and willing to find solutions when they fall outside your area of direct expertise ·Working as a member of a team and pitching in to ensure the team succeeds with its commitments ·Working with multiple internal engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs around the platforms and applications maintained by the hiring team. ·Keeping a level head in a pressured environment ·Working with geographically dispersed teams Required experience and qualifications ·BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership / architecture role. ·10+ years of relevant work experience ·Proficiency in modern languages including Java, JavaScript, etc. ·Proficiency in modern web programming including AngularJS, NodeJS, React, JQuery ·Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design. ·Experience working in Cloud Services of AWS, Azure, and GCP ·Familiarity with professional software engineering practices across the entire development life cycle; coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing. ·Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English. Preferred experience and qualifications ·Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability. ·Development experience designing, developing and maintaining REST-based interfaces and their clients ·Familiarity with cloud computing. SaaS and PaaS. ·Strong interest, and the ability to, learn other coding languages, databases, platforms and tools as needed. ·Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project. ·Experience with network programming, websockets, Netty framework ·Working in an agile iterations and good understanding of scrum Node, UI Development (React/Remix, Angular), GCP