Software Engineer


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Michael Bailey Associates

Listed on

11th October 2018

Location

Leeds

Salary/Rate

£500 - £550

Type

Contract

Start Date

ASAP

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You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and be in a position to affect change in the on-going robustness, resilience and stability of those products.

You will contribute to the overall Software Development Lifecycle Process within Software Engineering, following the agreed Architectural & Software Engineering principals to ensure the products developed are fit for purpose.

Key Responsibilities:

* Deliver software products which make up services for our citizens to consume

* Transform business requirements in to production ready code

* Ensure system robustness, resilience and stability

* Design and develop reusable libraries and services and promote reuse across the department

* Contribute to community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering

* Produce comprehensive suites of automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality

* Assure there is a fit for purpose, robust automated test suite

* Provide coaching and mentoring to Software Engineers colleagues and peers

* Assist in the development of medium-long term strategies for products

* Define version control strategies for the source code of the product

* Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery or continuation of software engineering activities

* Collaborate across teams and liaise with Principal Software Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions

* Produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption

Experience Required:

* Experience of leading Software Engineers in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple senior Stakeholders

* An ability to quickly comprehend and convert business requirement into technical solutions

* Significant and demonstrable development experience in

* source technologies like Java, JavaScript, Node.js

* Significant and demonstrable knowledge of both SQL and no-SQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB

* Significant and demonstrable experience working with distributed version control systems such as Git

* Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development alongside use of automated test frameworks

* Significant and demonstrable experience implementing Software Engineering best practices

* Experience of developing in cloud based environments

* Significant and demonstrable experience of using Linux based Operating Systems like RHEL

* Demonstrable experience working with Software Engineering collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack

* Demonstrable experience of Behaviour Driven Development with tools like Cucumber

* Experience of modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by other Software Engineers

* Experience building public facing and internal REST APIs

* Experience developing software within a Micro-Service architecture

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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