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Senior Backend Developer

2 weeks ago


Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Nigel Wright Full time

**The role**
Our Tech4Good client is at the forefront of the drive towards cleaner, safer and smarter cities and is looking to bring a Senior Backend Developer into their core product delivery team which is based in Newcastle city centre. They are at an exciting stage intheir growth and ranked top 10 for IP in their industry so now need additional experience & expertise to help bring their products out to the world.
**What they'd like you to be**
Our client wants to collaborate with interesting people which could be you if you have the skills and interests below:

- You care about the users of your product
- You are a professional who cares about your craft
- You like working as part of a team
- You spend time thinking before doing
- You don't think something is done if you've not tested it
- You're a nice person - we’ve got a small team which we’re looking to grow, and we all get on splendidly, so we’d like you to help us grow our team and maintain our culture
- You're a contributor - someone who wants to be involved in de?ning our core products as well as building them
- You have a passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
- You are open to new ideas and ways of working

**Skills and experience**
To do this role, our client would like you to have:

- 5+ years' experience in a Backend related role (especially Python)
- Excellent code craftsmanship and software design skills
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- A strong interest in best practice ways of working such as DevOps, TDD, Trunk-based Development, CI/CD and XP
- Excellent communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment
- An understanding of agile development practices
- Experience of, or an interest in, mentoring and supporting developers in your team
- Experience of leading a BE development team
- Good version control (Git) skills

Nice to haves:

- Hands-on system and user administration experience in an AWS environment
- Knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- An interest in Platform Engineering/DevOps

Stuff they use:as a team:

- Python/Bash
- AWS (Managed and Serverless)
- GitHub
- Atlassian Jira + Con?uence
- Swagger
- Slack

**What you'll get**
In addition to a great salary, you'll also get:

- The opportunity to work for an innovative Tech4Good company, helping to shape both the products and the business
- Flexible working
- A de?ned contribution pension
- 25 days holiday a year
- A MacBook Pro
- Training days
- Training budget of £1000 per year