Contract Senior React/Node Engineer - Remote Europe
Posted 1 day ago by YLD
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you will join a client team to develop innovative products in a fast-paced engineering environment. The role requires proficiency in problem-solving and crafting scalable architectures, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and communication. You will work in an Agile setting, focusing on high-quality software delivery and continuous improvement. Your contributions will help empower clients to excel in their respective sectors through exceptional technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build innovative products as part of a client team.
- Craft scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Communicate effectively and collaborate within a team.
- Engage in Agile methodologies, including Scrum and test-first practices.
- Participate in pair programming and code reviews.
- Debug production issues and maintain high-performance applications.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience with React and Node.
- Strong JavaScript skills, including asynchronous programming and ES6.
- Experience with distributed version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Familiarity with relational and schema-less databases.
- Focus on continuous integration and delivery.
- Understanding of RESTful web services design and implementation.
- Experience with performance monitoring tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Location: Remote in Europe
Department: Engineering
Employment: Contract (B2B)
About YLD: Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Great technology companies are built on incredible design, engineering and strategy, working in unison, operating at the very heart of an organisation and its audience. Enabling organisations to become great technology companies is our mission, and our promise to our clients. We aim to leave them with the mindset, tools, skills and expertise they need to go beyond their expectations, revolutionise their sectors, and for us to be proud of the change we create with them and their customers.
Our Mission: Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.
About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You'll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You'll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects. A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others. You'll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review. You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.
You'll have the following skills and experience:
- Proven commercial experience of working with React and Node;
- Experienced in JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures and ES6;
- Experience in distributed version control systems (e.g. Git);
- Experience in databases (both relational and schema-less);
- A strong focus on continuous integration and delivery;
- Building high-performance and scalable applications;
- Good understanding of the design and implementation of RESTful web services;
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
- You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.
You'll be:
- Self-motivated, proactive and continually looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
- A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You'll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
- Detail oriented;
- Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
- Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
- A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.
What you'll get in return: The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (1h30)
- Meet our Client Partner and Engineering Operations Manager (30 mins)
We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.