Senior Developer - Application Engineering (Remote)

Forbes Advisor; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital platform in London seeks a Senior Developer to join their UK-based development team. The ideal candidate will have 4-5 years of experience in building high-performance web systems, with strong skills in C#, JavaScript, and AWS. Collaborate in an agile environment to design innovative solutions and improve internal tools vital for the organization's growth.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of senior developer experience with high-performance web systems.
• Experience in both server-side and client-side JavaScript frameworks.
• Knowledge of AWS and automation in CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable systems.
• Collaborate with other senior engineers for solutions.
• Embrace a product-driven agile approach.

Skills

C# (.net core)

JavaScript

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

CSS/HTML5

Tools

NodeJS

Vue

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Company Description

At Forbes Advisor, our mission is to help readers turn their aspirations into reality. We arm people with trusted advice and guidance, so they can make informed decisions they feel confident in and get back to doing the things they care about most.

We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Forbes Advisor boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams, including Content, SEO, Business Intelligence, Finance, HR, Marketing, Production, Technology and Sales. The team brings rich industry knowledge to Marketplace's global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel.

Job Description

Forbes Advisor is hiring! We are expanding our UK-based development team as we continue our journey to evolve Forbes Advisor from a leading publisher into a tech powerhouse in the US market. As a part of our Application Engineering team, you will play a key role building immersive experiences for Forbes Advisor's customers as well as developing bespoke internal tools for use in house by the Forbes Advisor team.

Our engineering culture is flat and collaborative, where you will be empowered to help design, architect, and build solutions using the tools best suited to the job. We follow a lean product-driven approach valuing features delivered above estimates and story points.

Our tech stack currently includes: dotnet, NodeJS, Vue, AWS, Terraform, Typescript, ChatGPT, REST, GraphQL, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, New Relic

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable systems and applications. Own services end-to-end, ensuring high availability, performance, and security while continuously improving architecture and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with team of other senior engineers to help build solutions to meet the users needs. Contribute to a positive team culture fostering a supportive environment to motivate and challenge each other
• Embrace a product-driven agile approach with the space to build great things at fast pace. We value features delivered, and embrace continuous deployments, automated testing and the lowest possible maintenance overhead within the finished products.
• Collaborate with the broader marketplace team, tapping into expertise from industry and domain specialists across Europe and the US to create pioneering experiences.
• Leverage your technical expertise to disrupt the market and produce exciting new journeys and experiences for a US market.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated 4- 5 years of experience at a senior developer level, ideally involving high-performance web systems and client-facing projects.
• Experience with C# (.net core), server side and client-side JavaScript or experience using established frameworks (Vue, React, Angular)
• Experience working with AWS, automating testing and working with CI/CD pipelines for rapid delivery
• Front end CSS/HTML 5 experience - ideally completing a full stack portfolio or with a willingness to lean into back and front-end technologies.
• Awareness of the serverless suite of tooling provided by Amazon Web Services.
• Analytical abilities, able to read and understand application telemetry, customer analytics and semantic monitoring to improve and optimise products and code.
• Effective collaborative skills to share ideas, lead architectural discussions, and ensure your insights are heard, contributing to solutions

Additional Information

Forbes Advisor provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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