Job Description
Senior Full Stack Developer opportunity:
Our client is a busy and growing technology marketing agency focused on providing its clients – and employees – with a better experience.
Due to winning a range of exciting digital projects, they are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to play a key role in their continued growth across digital delivery.
Main Responsibilities:
- To lead the development of all digital projects, to provide guidance and opinion that will provide a high-quality output on every job that’s undertaken
- To continually push the boundaries of our development offering, providing suggestions as to new technologies, approaches or methodologies that should be deployed
- To guide the team as to the testing procedures which should be in place. The output of every job should be the very best that can be done, and you’ll input into the UAT of each and every key development
- To challenge what’s possible within the confines of a project, ensuring that you’re clear of what’s feasible and what’s in/out of scope. Being involved early within a brief will provide you with the possibility of inputting into the scope and functional requirements of a project, something that you’ll be relied upon to provide
- Design overall architecture of the web application and build
- Maintain quality and ensure the responsiveness of all applications in accordance with the brief
- Maintain code integrity and organisation across all coding
- Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements
- Understanding and implementation of security and data protection
Skills Required:
- Able to utilise preprocessor scripting languages such as Sass/Less and Typescript to optimise development processes
- Confident working with package managers such as npm and yarn, alongside gulp and grunt to aid, structure and evolve the development team’s methods of working
- Highly experienced with back-end programming languages such as PHP and Python, and associated frameworks such as Laravel and Django
- Can utilise the full potential of HTML5/CSS3, being comfortable adding bespoke creativity to every job
- Aiding the direction of development solutions and methodology, inputting as required and always with an eye on efficiency and effectiveness of the final delivery
- Being flexible across all digital developments, with a ‘full stack’ mentality across language choice, build, release and revision
- Being available to advise before, during and after a development, giving the client services and digital teams the support required to run successful projects
- To always challenge what, and why, we’re doing jobs in a particular way
- To provide development estimates which will enable the projects to be efficient and profitable
- Proficient experience using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Vue.js, Angular.js and React.js, alongside jQuery
- Development experience for both mobile and desktop
- Able to work with cloud providers such as AWS for the deployment of application and site hosting
- Comfortable administering production linux servers over SFTP/SSH
- Database server management and administration, alongside knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Mercurial and Git
- Knowledge of Django CMS or Django as a framework would be favoured
This is a Client based in Buckinghamshire but will consider remote working Candidates for the Senior Full Stack Developer role