On behalf of our client, we are currently looking for a Full Stack Javascript Engineer to join its software development team in London.

Role Summary

You will collaboratively solve problems, communicate technical decisions through tech-talks and white-boarding sessions.

Key Accountabilities

• Learns quickly and makes steady progress without the need for significant feedback from more senior engineers
• Shows engagement when architecting and developing new software
• Shows engagement with the wider engineering community. Hosts Dojo’s lunch and learn sessions and is seen as someone who interacts with the wider engineering community.
• Helps other engineers to produce clean, quality code through strong engagement in code reviews and pair programming
• Takes full ownership of the tasks in his/her backlog and is also begging to show signs of taking accountability for the entire team’s backlog.
• Actively engages with the product teams to make the product better, and to understand ambiguous requirements
• To be seen as helpful, by both engineers and product
• Strong software design. Expected to know a wide array of software design patterns in depth, display a strong understanding of algorithms and data structures, and able to show multiple real-life examples of applications of this knowledge.
• Consults business stakeholders on the best approach for delivering complicated feature, both in how it can be split and sequenced, and in terms of potential improvement to the functional requirements
• Beginning to show signs of continuously mentoring less experience members of the team. Not just giving a hand here and there, but genuinely trying to upskill their peers.
• Knows when to challenge the team to be pragmatic.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience building distributed web applications
• Highly experienced with JavaScript
• Strong experience with CSS/SASS
• Experience with build automation tools (Webpack, nodemon)
• Strong experience with testing frameworks and libraries such as Mocha, Chai or Webdriver.io
• Experience working within a Continuous Delivery environment
• Experience working within an Agile environment such as scrum or Kanban
• Experience with NodeJS
• Experienced working within a cloud environment, and is comfortable provisioning IaaS and PaaS services within such an environment
• Understanding of containerisation (preferably Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with ES6 / CSS3 syntax's
• Ability to mentor and provide constructive feedback to members of the team
• Proficiency with TDD & BDD
• Good understanding of the good software design principles (e.g. OO, DRY, SOLID)
• Experience with full-stack development and devops
• Experience with distributed version controls systems like Git
• Experience with pair programming
• Experience working with CI tools (Concourse, Jenkins)
• Understanding of Accessibility best practices
• Experience with using templating engines (Handlebars)
• Experience with Express