Job Description
Senior Web Developer
- £465 per day
- 6 month contract starting ASAP
- Role based in Cambridge
As one of the most revered leaders in their industry, this technology led organisation is widely regarded as one of Britain`s global success stories. This is a fantastic opportunity to join them as a Senior Web Developer.
We need a Senior Web Developer to join the Business Change and Delivery group and work within our IP Delivery team. Reporting to the Web Development Manager, you will work with cutting-edge technologies, as well as business-critical legacy solutions. You`ll be working with experienced developers improving and adding new features to an established application, using a multitude of platforms, frameworks and programming language, so a pragmatic approach is essential.
Key responsibilities
- Hands-on front-end as well as back-end web development
- Maintain high levels of code quality, review peers changes and follow the defined policies and standards
- To take responsibility for your own work including the prioritization of tasks and goals
- Design high quality solutions to meet the functional requirements
- Maintaining and improving the BDD / TDD practice and maintain / improve unit tests coverage
- Solution deployment and transition to support
- Support training and documentation
- Demonstrate integrity, positive attitude, solid work ethic, commitment to stakeholders, camaraderie to the team and a passion for excellence.
Key Skills and experience
- Minimum 8 years experience in software systems design and development
- Good experience of working with multiple web technologies, such as (in order of preference) PHP (essential) , Java (essential), JavaScript (essential) / JQuery, HTML5, node.js, AngularJS, Bootstrap
- Proven experience in software systems design and development
- Source Control and Continuous Integration (Git, SVN, Bamboo, Jenkins, Octopus)
- Enterprise-grade RDBMS, such as Oracle or SQL Server
- Understanding of TDD / BDD Tools (Selenium, Cucumber) automation.
- Experience working in an agile development environment (specifically Scrum)
- Proven experience of RESTful service design, development and deployment a distinct advantage
- Awareness of web security threats and mitigation methods
- Proven track record and proven understanding of web security threat and mitigation techniques
- Experience in working with stakeholders across a range of levels
- Experience of working with cloud / remote computing services (Azure, Amazon EC2 (AWS), Google Cloud, Openstack)
- A problem solving attitude
- Pragmatism, self-motivation