Software Engineer, Manchester ( Remote, work from home )
Company
D55 are a fast growing, Manchester based, AWS consultancy partner with a reputation for success. Our success has led to repeat business and a solid customer base.
We truly care about our people and strive for diversity, inclusion and encourage a positive work / life balance.
We are offering the opportunity to be part of a world-class team, solving complex IT problems for our clients and working on innovative, cloud native applications and products.
Our business offers a variety of challenges, and the opportunity to learn new skills along the way from an amazing team. Furthermore, you will be part of a team that will make a significant impact on the business for years to come.
What you can expect from us
- Flexible working arrangements including work from home
- Great benefits package
- Supportive leadership
- A highly-skilled workforce with a solid track record of successful delivery
- A company that is committed to continuous improvement and open to suggestion - If you can think of a better way to do something, tell us and let’s give it a go
- No micro management, we trust you to be responsible and accountable for your workload.
- Constantly learning and implementing new technologies
- An ever-evolving tech stack
- Working on a mix of greenfield development and re-architecting legacy applications onto AWS
- Lean internal processes
Role
The successful Software Engineer will work alongside the squad’s Principle Engineer and Test Engineer to deliver quality code in line with our development standards and system architecture.
Job knowledge and experience
- The Software Engineer will have experience of working in small, highly focused squads that are used to delivering quality outcomes
- Encouraging the squad to continuously improve
- Build relationships with the senior technical leads internally
- Diverse exposure and experience including large-scale web applications
- Experience of Agile, preferably Kanban
- Experience of working in a DevOps CI/CD environment
Technical skills
- Proven ability to pick up new technical skills and the confidence to use them to solve problems
- Commercial experience in AWS
- CloudFormation/CDK
- Serverless
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- Step Functions
- .net
- Javascript
- Node.js
- Angular/React/Vue
- Microservices and Event Driven architectures
- Event Sourcing
- CQRS
- CI/CD
Behaviours
- Pragmatic approach to software development
- A desire to learn and grow professionally
- Take active personal responsibility for communicating progress/issues and escalating where applicable
- Ability to get stuff done (good enough) but to analyse and highlight where things need to be reworked or improved
- Ability to actively manage trade-offs to ensure an outcome and appreciate the commercial realities of delivering to a budget
- A willingness and confidence to use the right technology for the task even if it is out of your comfort zone
- Collaborate with other team members and be part of the team responsible for delivery
Outcomes
- Tickets well managed and updated
- On time delivery
- Expectations managed – on time/behind, more complex/easier, blocked/unblocked
- Developed to agreed standards
- Test criteria met
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and participate in the process
Process
This Software Engineer role is top priority and we are looking to appoint a successful candidate ASAP
Telephone interview Screening call to assess fit with Reedmace Solutions
1st interview Formal interview to discuss your background and fit
2nd interview Competency based technical interview