Role: Senior Developer
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Manchester or Bristol - No minimum expectation for onsite working per week, however they should have flexibility for team meetings in the London office.
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £650-£675 per day
Security Clearance: Active or Lapsed SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Developer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR DEVELOPER
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team, getting involved with every part of the lifecycle of a service, from user research to continuously deploying code to production in our AWS environments
- Build robust, performant Ruby on Rails applications to serve a variety of public and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce
- Implement tooling and automation to support development, operation, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the systems you work on
- Take the service live and hand over to Civil Servants
- Share your work and the things you’ve learned internally to client through blog posts and show and tells
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR DEVELOPER
- Experience in back-end development, with knowledge of at Ruby on Rails programming language used for back-end web development.
- An awareness of technologies used for cloud-based web applications, such as HTTP, databases, backups, CDNs, search, containers (e.g. docker or kubernetes) and cloud computing (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure)
- Understanding of software design principles, and an ability to apply them
- Familiarity with modern software development approaches such as automated testing, test driven development (TDD), continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control
- Understanding of common web security risks such as OWASP Top 10, and the corresponding mitigations
- Enjoy researching and learning new programming tools and techniques and sharing their skills with others
- Have experience working in a collaborative environment, and an understanding of the benefits of agile and multi-disciplinary approaches
- A desire to use their skills and experience to make a genuine difference, and to work on important services that are used by millions of people
- Provide technical leadership within a team, advising and working with developers to identify the best approaches and solutions
- Take responsibility for solving complex issues, drawing upon a broad knowledge of web technologies
- Have proven experience of modern software development approaches including automated testing, test driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control
- Have experience in management, helping colleagues with their career development and coaching more junior staff members
- Share knowledge among the teams, ensuring that your team is understood by others and understanding the working of the wider organisation
If you are a Senior Developer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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