Summary: The Developer role at Venesky-Brown involves contributing to the ongoing development and support of software products within a public sector organization in Edinburgh/Glasgow. The position emphasizes collaborative software development practices and requires active participation in team events, mentoring, and ensuring high-quality solutions. The role is hybrid, allowing for both remote and office work, and is initially contracted for six months with the possibility of extension.

Key Responsibilities:

• Continued development and support of products in-line with the product and architecture roadmaps.
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable and collaborative software development practice focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable and appropriate artefacts.
• Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
• Troubleshooting and fixing development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique and experience.
• Coach and mentor other team members as necessary.
• 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 software requirements such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability and deployability.
• Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis.
• Support and deliver the disaster recovery assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero.

Key Skills:

• Significant commercial experience with AWS including CDK, Serverless (Lambda), S3, API Gateway, Cloud Formation and AWS RDS for Postgres.
• Proficiency in Typescript (or modern JavaScript) and Node.
• Experience with Vanilla ReactJS and/or NextJS.
• Knowledge of Java and SpringBoot.
• Ability to create excellent quality software collaboratively.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to understand context and deliver value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes.
• Knowledge of formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test Driven Development.
• Experience in defining infrastructure-as-code.

Salary (Rate): 494

City: Edinburgh

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT