Senior Full Stack Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer
London, United Kingdom
What you’ll be doing:
• The development and evolution of our core technical architecture using your sophisticated programming skills
• Identify and analyse metrics that tell you how the software is performing and making sure it’s on the right path to optimum supremacy
• Making ameliorations to the deployment pipeline to ensure smooth and frequent releases
• Working closely with our brilliant product, design and apps teams to produce innovative products and features that put us in front
• Working with exciting new technologies (they’re that exciting, they’re confidential)
• Administering modern processes and working methodologies as well as playing a key role in their progression
• Applying skilful technical management and planning, working closely with the product owner and producing technical roadmaps
• Experience in application architecture
• Evangelising our unique culture and way of thinking to get the best from your colleagues
How will you be doing this?
• You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• Taking ownership of code quality and ensuring the same standard across the development team through regular code reviews.
• Prioritising your work with the team and its product owner, weighing both the business and technical value of each task
• Experimentation, test, try, fail and learn all the time – one thing at a time
• Think beyond standard
Skills & Requirements
• You’re smart and can find a way to show us, challenging us where necessary
• A polyglot developer with exceptional technical ability
• A dab hand at front end development and like to get stuck in with Javascript (node.js, Vue, NPM)
• Big on data and how to process it at scale
Experience in the following:
• PHP
• AWS
• MySQL
• JavaScript (node.js, Vue, NPM
Desired experience (but not essential) in the following:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• ElasticSearch
• BDD
• Testing (PHP Unit)
• Laravel
• HTML/CSS
• Redis
• Graph Databases
• Machine Learning
• Python
• Stream processing
Personality/Characteristics for the role/team:
• Friendly, well balanced individual.
• Team player, who also works well, independently.
• Somebody who likes to get involved.
• You care about quality and take pride in your work.
• Problem solver
• Likes a challenge
• Innovator