Job Description

Key Accountabilities

  • Deliver high quality, robust, and secure software.
  • Write clean, reusable, and fully documented code, following established software development practices and design patterns.
  • Follow the technical design principles and coding standards set by the Head of Software Development and the CTO.
  • Continuously evaluate our systems, recommending solutions and architectural designs that will improve our software and its architecture.
  • Write unit tests and participate in buddy reviews.
  • Collaborate effectively with Product Owners, Developers, Testers, Designers, DevOps Engineers, and the wider business.
  • Collaborate effectively with suppliers and other third parties.
  • Contribute to a technical knowledge base of technical graphs, architectural diagrams, and other relevant material.
  • Participate in code releases to production.
  • Assist more junior members of the Software Development team.
  • Keep up to date with the latest technologies and software development practices & principles.

    This list is not exhaustive and the duties are liable to change from time to time in line with the needs of the department.

        Skills & Competencies

        • Practical experience with JIRA & Confluence.
        • In depth experience with Object Oriented programming.
        • In depth experience with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript/Typescript – ideally Vue.js.
        • In depth experience with at least one PHP framework, preferably Laravel/Lumen. Knowledge of Zend Framework would be an advantage (legacy systems use ZF) but it is not required.
        • In depth experience designing & building cloud based, SaaS applications.
        • Experience with microservices architecture.
        • Experience with unit testing and design patterns.
        • Experience working in collaborative Agile (Scrum / Kanban) environment.
        • Experience with distributed source control management tools – Git or Mercurial.
        • Experience with SASS, LESS or similar.

              Knowledge & Qualifications

              • Robust knowledge around cyber security, software vulnerabilities and mitigations for these.
              • At least 7yrs of experience, preferably with some experience in a Lead Developer role.

                  Personal Attributes

                  • Excellent communication skills.
                  • Analytical, problem solver.
                  • Self-motivated, proactive, independent thinker, with a “can do” mentality.
                  • Team player.

                    Company Values - CREDIT

                    C

                    Customer - Customers are our primary focus

                    R

                    Results - Results matter, create value every day

                    E

                    Energy is contagious, Share it!

                    D

                    Developing our people makes us different

                    I

                    Invent the solution - be proactive

                    T

                    Teamwork - Together we can build the business

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