Summary: The Software Developer role is a 6-month contract position focused on developing cloud-native solutions using AWS technologies. The position requires collaboration in creating serverless micro-services and involves hybrid working with weekly office attendance in either Edinburgh or Glasgow. The role is outside IR35 and offers a competitive daily rate. Candidates should have substantial experience with AWS and agile methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement the Digital Extracts as an integrated feature or journey within the organisation.
• Continued development and support of other products in-line with the product and architecture roadmaps.
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that’s 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.
• Ensures high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests – with appropriate code coverage – and code analysis using code quality tools.
• Ensures that developed software complies with non-functional software requirements such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability and deployability.

Key Skills:

• Commercial experience with AWS technologies including CDK, Serverless (Lambda), S3, API Gateway, Cloud Formation, and AWS RDS for Postgres.
• 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.
• Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards.
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes.
• Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development.
• Defining infrastructure-as-code.

Salary (Rate): £460

City: Edinburgh

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT