Job details:

• Full-time
• Remote (some travels to UK and LV can be requested/ once per 3 months)
• 2 interviews
• Start date: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Extensions possible
• Client: big media company in UK

Scope:

• Lead the design and development of software that meets complex product and business needs.

• Review and give constructive feedback on others’ code.

• Deliver work to successful completion across the immediate team.

• Write appropriate tests using automated test-driven techniques for ensuring code quality and coverage.

• Integrate the software with monitoring and support tools.

• Ensure software works in its operating environment.

• Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation.

• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle, including out of hours support for incident resolution.

• Participate in and lead as required, the team’s agile planning and delivery process.

• Participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery.

• Work with project, product and technical leads to design software and create implementable specifications and tasks at feature and component level.

• Work with third party providers where necessary offering direction, support and documentation.

• Mentor and coach more junior staff.  Provide technical leadership and direction colleagues. Line management of 1-2 software engineers (if appropriate).

• Keep informed of existing and new technologies, introducing them where appropriate.

Requirements:

• Commercial experience (4+ years) with one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Python, Clojure

• Solid understanding of software engineering QA practices, including TDD and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience (2+ years) of building and deploying applications on cloud infrastructure

• Experience of working within established architectural patterns and technical direction

• Ability to demonstrate strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work

• Experience of process improvements within software development lifecycle.

• Expertise in developing for operational and non-functional concerns
  (monitoring integration, performance testing, scale, availability and resilience,
  security considerations).

• Expertise in web architecture and key technologies (REST API, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  (HTTP), Domain Naming System (DNS), distributed design)

Desired but not required:

• Apache Kafka or other data streaming technologies

• Building and deploying containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes

• You enjoy working with others and value collaboration

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