Senior Developer

MarkIT Placements; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK-based technology firm is seeking a skilled Full-Stack Developer to join their innovative team in Farnborough. Your role will involve integrating user-facing elements and designing efficient applications while ensuring best practices in security and data protection. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of SQL databases and a good grasp on asynchronous programming. With a relaxed yet committed environment, the firm offers excellent benefits including increasing holiday days and a pension scheme.

Benefits

22 days holiday, raising to 25

Pension Scheme

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Employee Bonus Pool

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SQL and ability to explain transactions.
• Comfortable with asynchronous programming and web socket architecture.
• A good mathematical or financial accounting ability is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Design and implement performant applications.
• Enumerate security best practices for data protection.

Skills

Asynchronous programming

API integration

SQL databases

Front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3)

Git

Mathematical or financial accounting

Tools

PostgreSQL

NPM

Gulp

Vagrant

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed with server side logic
• Comfortable taking ownership and writing reusable, testable and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection best practices
• Good team worker and interested in mentoring others
• Operate as part of a flexible Team and undertake ad hoc project work as required.

Skills and Knowledge

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming, web sockets and event driven architecture
• Implement accessibility, security compliance and data protection best practices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources, API’s and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Strong understanding of SQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, with the ability to explain transactions, ACID compliance, various types of joins, stored procedures, trigger functions, indexing, security best practices, etc.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests, such as AvaJS or Mocha
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3 along with server-side CSS preprocessors e.g. SASS or LESS
• Comfortable in a command-line environment and Ubuntu system administration along with experience with NPM, Gulp, Bower and Vagrant.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Due to the nature of the projects, a good mathematical or financial accounting ability is desirable
• Must be self motivated with the ability to work independently

BENEFITS

22 days holiday, raising to 25, plus statutory bank/public holidays Birthday Leave

Pension Scheme

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Employee Bonus Pool

A relaxed, committed and enthusiastic team-oriented working atmosphere