Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Continued enhancement of the Housing Management product portfolio based on customer feedback.
– Continued development and support of Housing Management 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 required, 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.
– Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
– Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving towards 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:
 
– Java 11+
– JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React 
– HTML / CSS and an awareness of accessibility considerations
– REST APIs
– AWS
– Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams. 
– Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
– Designing and implementing solutions using microservice and event-based architectures
– Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
– Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
– Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
– Working in Agile delivery models
– Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test Driven Development
– Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
– Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools
– Defining infrastructure as code
 
Desirable Skills:
 
– AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
– Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
– Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
– OpenShift
– Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
– Data modelling and SQL development
– Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot and Spring MVC
– Spring security and OAuth2
– Template engines such as Thymeleaf
– Typescript
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.