Location: Remote/Halifax, West Yorkshire (1-2 days a week in office) Our client are an Agile team of tech experts, game-changers and creative-thinkers, changing the future of their industry forever and making a real difference in people’s lives.
Candidates should take the time to read all the elements of this job advert carefully. Please make your application promptly.
They are using human-centred technology to make serivices more personal, relevant and predictive to the way that people live today.
This role will build our client's digital products by following modern development practices to deliver quality working software.
The Software Engineer will operate as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- they will follow best practices for software engineering and contribute towards continuously improving the processes, standards and tools used for delivery.
They will work with IT Service to support the continuous integration and delivery approach, including automated deployment of software into production, and support the resolution of incidents for software they own.
They will also learn from more senior members of the team and participate in the Engineering Chapter, to understand and learn good practice from peers in teams contributing where appropriate.
Role: Work within a multi-disciplinary engineering team to develop and implement products Develop and manage technical documentation to agreed standards Engage constructively in code reviews with understanding of code quality Take ownership to overcome technical problems and live incidents Investigate and develop prototypes and proof of concepts using new technology Adhere to change control procedures Supports the relevant Scrum events; sprint planning / user story estimation, daily standups, sprint reviews / demos and retrospectives Identify and address technical debt Escalate issues in a timely fashion Assist with mentoring and training apprentice/trainee engineers in your Squad Ensure test driven development (TDD), and behaviour driven development (BDD), principles are followed wherever possible Invests in learning about the wider business, developing their knowledge of insurance as a business domain Continue to develop your own skills and an awareness of new tools, processes and technical developments relevant to your areas of expertise Actively participates in the department’s professional life through contributions to lunch and learns, show and tells, hackathons, monthly town halls and other team events Experience Previous development experience within technologies / languages / frameworks for either Front End
- React / JavaScript Back End
- .Net Core / C#, Java, Springboot, Node.js, SQL, NOSQL/MongoDB Supporting technology skills
- Gitlab, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenText, Mulesoft, and Terraform Ability to translate business requirements into code Understanding of software development lifecycle Understanding of design patterns Good level of OOP understanding and able to apply SOLID / DRY / Gang of Four principles, where relevant Understand dependency injection / dependency graph, where relevant Engages in pair programming Ability to develop unit and integration tests, or follow this approach with any configuration activities Ability to write code which caters to browser / device / responsive design where relevant Understanding of databases and data-driven design Able to apply CQRS to code
- ability to document code Understanding of CI / CD The company benefits package is superb and includes 25 days holiday (plus options to buy and sell) and up to 12 additional flexi-days, 9% pension (7.5% contributory and 1.5% employee contribution), 5% bonus, Vitality at Work Scheme, Life Assurance plus other flexible benefits (season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme etc).
If you meet the above criteria and would like to find out more, please contact Jackie Dean at Jumar ASAP.
