Senior Developer

Job Title

Senior Developer

Reports To: Head of Product Development and Architecture

Working Hours: 40 hours per week

Location: Ringwood/Newport, Wales

Smarter Technologies’ ability to flex and deliver small bespoke solutions and major transformation programmes is built on a model where the client’s needs and goals are prioritised over everything else.

Currently undergoing a period of rapid growth through word-of-mouth recommendations, Smarter Technologies associates are right now helping senior leaders across Government plan and deliver some of the most exciting and truly transformational programmes required to modernise public services.

We operate an associate model, only engaging with first class, known and trusted associates, with at least 10 years government delivery experience each.

The associates that we work with all share our values and commitment to delivering a high‑quality service. Many have worked with us for a number of years across multiple projects and complement our permanent team with additional niche subject matter expertise or delivery experience.

We have over 100 permanent staff, and our wider resource pool includes over 800 subject matter experts from our sub‑contractors and long‑term associates, who collectively cover all of the skills and knowledge areas required.

Our clients and partners include: BEIS, HMRC, DIT, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, G4S, Tesco, Cardtronics, Star International and others.

The Senior Developer will join a dynamic development team working on a range of exciting projects using cutting‑edge technologies. The intention is to expand the business over the next 2‑3 years. Activities will include building out the next generation of highly‑scalable, reusable and performant distributed services and applications for Smarter Technologies’ extensive and diverse range of customers and clients. The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, with a proven track record in software development of enterprise class solutions that consistently exceed customer expectations.

• Designing, building, testing and maintaining efficient, reusable and reliable unit‑tested code.
• Implementing solutions using a range of languages and technologies.
• Assisting with understanding customer requirements, technical design and estimation.
• Ensuring our architecture is fit to meet the needs of the business: fast, scalable, reliable and expandable.
• Taking personal responsibility for ensuring all code that goes to production is of top quality and meets customer requirements and needs.
• Ensuring new and existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.
• Continuously improving the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.
• Undertaking code reviews, providing constructive feedback and advising on best practice and coding standards.
• Ensuring a safe working environment and ensuring that safe working practices are adopted by employees within this work environment.

• Educated to degree level, or equivalent, preferably in subjects related to Information Technology.

• Several years of experience delivering solutions using Agile methods (Scrum, XP, etc), utilising Test‑Driven Development, code refactoring, with a strong awareness of the principles of creating ‘clean code’.
• Extensive experience of developing and delivering software for commercial and public sector organisations, with a logical approach to problem solving.
• Experience of using automated unit testing tools.
• Experience of middleware technologies, message queues, message brokers and stream processing technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka).
• Highly proficient at designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Working knowledge of cloud‑computing platforms and services (ideally Azure).
• In‑depth knowledge of relational and No
  
  SQL database design and strong SQL skills, as well as an awareness of Object‑Relational Mapping technologies.
• Extensive experience of using source control tools such as Git, and software build tools such as Maven / Gradle.
• Comprehensive knowledge of at least three…