Senior Frontend Software Developer (JavaScript/AWS) – (Contract – Inside IR35)

at  Spyrosoft

REQUIREMENTS

• JavaScript
• React
• TypeScript
• AWS: Networking, EC2, Elasticache, CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins
• Git
• Jira
• Desirable: Java

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Software Developer, ideally with expertise in the media sector, you will play an essential role as part of a team delivering and integrating software to form a complete service. You are an experienced developer who works with minimal support and can influence and mentor others. You will:

• help set direction and embed good practice within teams
• make decisions based on research
• plan and lead development on sets of related stories, working with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built
• have an understanding of the whole system
• teach and mentor others

EXPERIENCE

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or similar work based experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Developer ideally with a focus on media-related projects
• Very good working knowledge of standard software development frameworks, techniques and methodologies
• Experience with providing coaching and mentoring
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team, contributing to the development of business scenarios
• Knowledge of software development tools and technologies
• You are flexible and curious in your approach
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

KEY SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Accessibility: build user interfaces that meet a predefined set of standards. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use when accessibility testing. Champion accessibility to internal stakeholders. Offer design feedback to mitigate the risk of failing accessibility testing
Communicating information: work collaboratively in a group and build relationships with others. Identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ and work with others to address them. Manage stakeholder expectations. Be flexible and capable of proactive and reactive communication. Host or moderate difficult discussions within the team or with senior stakeholders
Community collaboration: work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others. Adapt feedback to ensure it’s effective and lasting. Use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. Identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses
Leadership and guidance: understand the impact of decisions and can make decisions characterised by different levels of risk and complexity. Resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions. Make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and can recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. Contribute to best practice guidelines
Modern standards approach: competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
Programming and build: collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications.
Use the agreed specifications to build, test and document user interfaces of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools
Prototyping: approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. Establish design patterns and iterate them. Use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Strategic thinking: define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context. Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible
Systems design: translate agreed designs into working user interfaces following modern standards. Manage and document technical complexity to make sure work is easily maintained and reusable. Work with well-understood technology and can identify appropriate patterns to make effective use of technologies’ best features
Systems integration: define the static assets build. Co-ordinate all aspects of the integration and take responsibility for the tests around the user interface. Configure the part of the system that uses the network and test that it works as expected
User focus (frontend developer): collaborate with user researchers and interaction designers to represent user needs internally. Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You champion user research to focus on all users. Effectively prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others to do so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use
Web performance optimisation: identify and fix web performance issues. Collect data from various tools to monitor and fix web performance issues. Understand that poor web performance has a negative effect on user experience. Offer guidance on the best tools and methods to use

As a Senior Software Developer, ideally with expertise in the media sector, you will play an essential role as part of a team delivering and integrating software to form a complete service. You are an experienced developer who works with minimal support and can influence and mentor others. You will:

• help set direction and embed good practice within teams
• make decisions based on research
• plan and lead development on sets of related stories, working with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built
• have an understanding of the whole system
• teach and mentor other