An excellent opportunity for the right person to join a growing and ambitious AI-powered Sustainability company. The right person will:
- Be a keen technologist with a broad understanding of modern software development approaches, willing and able to diversify into different technologies.
- Be highly motivated, eager to learn new skills, adept at problem solving and keen to work in a growing company.
- Have strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and will be active in seeking out colleagues to work with collaboratively.
- Have a sound knowledge of software engineering techniques and follow best practice especially around OOP, QA, Agile, Continuous Integration and TDD.
- Be a self-starter, who demonstrates initiative in all they do and welcomes the chance to take on greater responsibility.
This role involves working as part of a small team focussed on enriching our sector-leading Sustainability platform with new features and functionality. The web-based platform is hosted on AWS cloud, with a service-based architecture and a React front end.
This is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work with our team in the Shoreditch office, in London, a minimum of 2 days a week.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available product features in line with user requirements and business needs.
- Be a champion for the Agile process, continually looking for, and pushing the team towards improvement.
- Work with client-facing colleagues and management to understand functional and non-functional product requirements.
- Assist with initiating further adoption of AWS cloud services, open source technologies and modern software architecture approaches
- Work independently or as part of a team, suggesting innovative design solutions, with a focus on security, quality, scalability and maintainability.
- Mentor junior team members, instilling a culture of quality and excellence and demonstrating an infectious passion for software engineering.
- Help define, document and enforce coding standards, patterns and procedures in all aspects of the technical stack.
- Produce clean, efficient code in line with Rio’s coding and quality standards.
- Review and debug code, ensuring that software is up-to-date with latest technologies and best practice.
- Write unit tests and automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
- Work with QA to resolve technical issues and improve quality.
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
- Maintain a broad understanding of the latest advances in software engineering and cloud computing technologies.
- Play a leading role within Agile and DevOps processes, suggesting new ways of doing things, driving continuous improvement and helping define stories, bugs and tasks.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to produce quality software that meets business requirements
- Adhere to the company’s Information Security Policies and Procedures at all times
Essential skills and experience:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- At least 5 years’ experience delivering commercial software in node.js and React.
- Deep understanding of JavaScript/Typescript.
- Commercial experience of SQL and optimising data retrieval performance.
- Solid background in Agile, having worked in high performing teams.
- Strong background in developing scalable APIs and high-end web user interfaces, with some experience building single page web applications.
- A team player, actively participating in all meetings and technical discussions with a “can do” attitude and not afraid to challenge the “norm”.
- Good understanding of service-based architecture, cloud computing and design patterns to solve complex problems.
- Experience of driving quality through ensuring acceptable unit test coverage and rigorous code reviews.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, taking the lead fixing issues under pressure.
- Experience using various scripting languages to implement automated processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Strong communication skills with written and verbal fluency in English.
- Passionate about working in a small, high-tech environment.
- Extensive commercial experience of AWS, or similar cloud services provider.
Desirable skills and experience:
- Snowflake / Data Warehousing
- DevOps / Continuous Delivery
- Git based source control systems
- GraphQL
Benefits to you:
- Competitive Salary
- Pension (After probation)
- Private medical (After probation)
- Employee discounts and more
