Company Description
We are Solirius Consulting, an independent software and technology consultancy who pride ourselves on our ability to deliver complex technology solutions for our clients. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a variety of exciting clients using a range of technologies, platforms, tools and methodologies. We’ll be looking to you as an experienced, highly-motivated software engineer to lead the way in providing technical expertise to our clients and imparting your knowledge to our fast-growing team of developers.
Job Description
About you:
We are looking for a conscientious, client-focused and technically proficient application developer with impressive analytic and communication skills; you should be comfortable with talking to clients and enjoy the variety of working on different projects.
You are passionate about what you do, enjoy being involved in the wider development community and will relish playing a pivotal role in helping to shape our culture and in embedding quality and best practices throughout the development process. You’ll be sharing your knowledge of tools and techniques within the team and leading discussion about how and where to use them. You’ll also have experience of mentoring junior developers, helping them adopt new approaches to problem-solving and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team.
You are likely to be someone with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, with exposure to the entire software life cycle. Any experience of enterprise-level applications and their integration with other systems would be desirable.
Responsibilities and Duties
Responsibilities include:
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Provide hands-on software development, working closely with our client teams using Agile development processes
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Provide technical expertise and software development for our expanding client-base
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Development planning and estimating
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Carrying out peer reviews
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Act as a champion for best practices and continuous learning
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Act as a mentor for junior members of the development team
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Working closely with the management team to shape our technical training and development.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Skills
Each project is never the same, but we are looking for full-stack and back-end Java developers in addition to front-end developers who can demonstrate technical expertise in any of the following:
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Back-end development (e.g. Java 8, Node.JS, JMS and ActiveMQ)
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Front-end development (e.g. Javascript, Angular.JS, React.JS, HTML 5, CSS 3, SASS)
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Understanding of enterprise architecture and integration patterns, styles and protocols (SOA, ESB, microservices and web/RESTful services)
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Integration technology (familiarity with Camel and/or Servicemix in particular)
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DevOps experience including automated environment build tooling (e,g, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, Ansible for Configuration Management), continuous integration (Jenkins), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux
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Testing tools and methodology (TDD and Capybara / Selenium, JUnit or TestNG)
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Database design and programming, particularly using open source data technologies (Oracle/SQL Server also desirable)
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Sound understanding of software development life cycle models and familarisation of software version control tools (specifically GIT).
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Experience of development methodologies, especially Agile
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Fluency in additional programming languages, particularly Python
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Salary: £55,000.00 to £80,000.00 /year
