The client

You will be joining at a time when the organisation is going through some of their biggest challenges to date as they are going through a complete re-platforming to React, alongside other high profile projects.  As a result, they are looking for someone with experience in working on large scale, distributed systems that can help drive the technical decisions and delivery of projects.

The role

• You have experience working with React in large scale systems
• Have experience working with Node and its surrounding ecosystem
• You have worked with or helped build component libraries for React
• You help mentor and lead all levels
• Running lunch and learns or advocating the organisation externally through meetups, blogging, hackathons etc
• You understand business and commercial impact
• You understand delivery and how lean processes can enable this
• You live and breathe lean practices and true agile thinking

The candidate

• Cloud – ideally AWS
• Extensive experience in React and Node
• Worked on large scale, highly transactional, distributed systems
• Provided coaching and mentorship to other engineers
• Worked with async and event driven architectures
• Test driven development
• Agile – ideally using squad-based teams
• Focus on writing quality code using best practices and principles including pair programming
• Microservices architecture & Restful API’s
• Full continuous integration and deployment pipeline, from GIT commit to deployment in production