Senior Developer

Position Purpose:

• Serve as a Senior Full Stack Developer responsible for designing and delivering high-quality features
• Hands-on development role while contributing to and influencing the overall technical direction of the product.
• Take ownership of feature technical design across the full stack, including cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement within the team.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop product software using appropriate modelling techniques, adhering to agreed design standards, patterns, and methodologies. Balance complexity, business requirements, cost, and timelines to achieve optimal outcomes for customers and the business.
• Create and communicate multiple architectural and design views to address stakeholder concerns and ensure alignment with both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop models and prototypes to validate proposed designs, secure stakeholder approval, and enable effective implementation.
• Recommend and refine designs that consider current and target environments, performance, security, and integration with existing systems. Conduct design reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve quality across the team.
• Analyse and document the technical impact of new product features and architectural enhancements, including estimating effort and identifying dependencies.
• Contribute to the selection of appropriate software development approaches to meet quality standards, delivery timelines, and risk management objectives.
• Apply agreed development standards, tools, and best practices to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated expertise in software design patterns and coding best practices
• AI Assisted Development - tools like GitHub Copilot to write, review, debug code
• Prompt Engineering
• Experience in SaaS-based full stack development, with proficiency in Java and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Spring (or similar backend frameworks).
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Proven experience designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code on AWS, including services such as CloudFormation, CDK, load balancers, EC2, S3, Lambda, and container-based runtime environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools such as GitHub, CircleCI, CodePipeline, or Bamboo.
• Strong problem-solving and system design capabilities.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and effectively share knowledge within the team.
• Proven track record of proactive contribution across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). 

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience with monolithic to microservices App migration
• Experience with NoSQL/Document/Vector databases
• Performance optimizations with data caching and related designs
• Have worked in Data pipelines/ETL
• Application monitoring with CloudWatch, New Relic
• RAG Pipeline Design

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent academic qualification