Lead Developer

Horner Recruitment ,
Telford, Shropshire
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Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000 per annum

Overview

Our client is a high growth Technology business with plans for further significant growth over the next 12 months. The role is an opportunity for someone with strong experience as a Developer to join an existing team as a Lead Developer. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? As a key member of the Development team, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of developers to deliver new features accurately and efficiently, as well as improving legacy systems and processes. We’re looking for someone who can work within an Agile framework, has a clear drive for delivery as well as strong organisation and problem-solving skills. You’ll need to be up to date with all the latest technology trends so you can attend the weekly technical direction meetings, to help create new tools and processes to improve overall team performance. You’ll also; Build efficient services that produce and consume Apache Kafka events to reduce uncouple codebases and reduce impact of an outage Develop microservices that have one main responsibility allowing new features and improvements to be made extremely quickly Lead a Kanban team technically by designing new systems thoroughly as well as creating improvements for legacy codebases Evaluate the performance and skills of developers within their team sub-team to spot areas of weakness and training requirements Constant delivery of new features to a very high quality by consistently reviewing other developers code and communicating/providing feedback when required Using the defined technology stack as the default for all new codebases, but suggesting alternatives to the Software Development Manager if applicable Write unit tests for all new functionality to ensure functionality behaves as expected WHAT WILL YOU BRING? We’re looking for someone who is highly self-motivated, able to absorb new ideas or concepts quickly, and who has previous experience leading a team of developers to consistently deliver high quality features. You’ll also have; A Computer Science related degree 3 years of commercial PHP experience with the use of frameworks A strong understanding of Event Driven Architecture using a message broker such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ Developed microservices Third party integrations Caching e.g. Redis Events e.g. Kafka PHP7 with Laravel or Symfony Unit Testing e.g. PHPUnit The ability to present ideas clearly and concisely Benefits: 23 days holiday plus your birthday Bonus scheme (10%) Flexi-time policy Contributory Pension

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