Location

This role is based out of our Astral, Darlington office. We have a hybrid working model of 3 days together, 2 days wherever.

Why this job matters

The key purpose of this role is to take ownership of a part of a Digital Channels solutions, including design, implementation, unit, feasibility testing and component testing, and preparation for solution deployment. The role will work independently but as part of a Agile Squad with some guidance when needed and can contribute to pairing with other team members. The role ensures that internal & self service non-functional, functional and operational requirements have been met. Contribute as one of the key Software engineers which includes guaranteeing that other members of the team are fully aware of changes being made and have been involved in creating and reviewing the solution. Define, build and manage software environment, introducing new tools and new facilities to test hardware and software as appropriate.

What you’ll be doing

• Contributing to planning and prioritising Agile Delivery tasks/stories within team, with enough awareness of the overall Internal & self service development lifecycle, architecture, Engineering tools and techniques, learning from and improving their own approach. 
• Contributing to Digital Channels knowledge base by taking proper knowledge share from Digital Channels Architecture, ASG/DevOps and wider teams, and participate in cross knowledge share programs.
• Potentially responsible for interacting with our customers to work out requirements capture and/or show and tell part of solution. This includes developing an understanding of an element of the business domain sufficient to be able to interpret requirements, and making sound design and implementation decisions;
• Participate in identifying potential continuous improvements to individual and team practices while being conscious of costs and benefits; and taking ownership of implementing any changes based on improvements identified.
• Perform routine analysis and design tasks of various projects.
• Make modifications to existing code or develop completely new modules of moderate complexity.
• May also undertake testing of other components.
• Provide updates and estimates during the development cycle. 
• Design, implement, unit and component test and prepare for deployment.
• Work collaboratively with other teams to solve problems.

Skills and Experience

Have experience of React development with a good subset of these skills and willing to learn new ones. 

Must Have:

• React JS
• Java Ver 1.8 and above - Preference 11

Desired, will need to learn:

• Bootstrap
• Docker 
• Typescript
• Node.js
• Server Side Rendering 
• SQL and Mongo db
• Good experience with GIT
• Spring  
• Thymeleaf