Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Are you a passionate Senior Full Stack Engineer seeking a new opportunity to work on innovative projects? Join our team and make an impact on cutting-edge technologies! 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive individual who can think creatively to solve problems and meet user requirements. You must have a keen interest in software requirements and have a keen interest in sofware engineering and be ready to research and learn new techniques, languages and frameworks. Working with a DevSecOps mindset, you will be developing, delivering and operating applications using a secure approach. 

Competencies

• Contributing to the development and refinement of user requirements.
• Actively contribute to Scrum ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning and Retrospective.
• Designing innovative solutions to solve problems and meet requirements.
• Elaborate solutions at a high level and create low level designs that conforms to set standards.
• Communicate effectively to a variety of audiences including both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leading Demo Sessions as part of sprint reviews.
• Implementing solutions using a variety of programming languages, frameworks, tools and techniques.
• Encourage and practice TDD and other Delivery Best practices.
• Producing applicable technical documentation.
• Contribute to improvements of our technical excellence and ways of working within Squad, Chapter and Guild forums.
• Actively Contribute to and progress the technical roadmap.
• Mentoring Software Engineers, Graduate and Junior population 
• Address Technical Debt and consistently recommend Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Competent in DevOps approach and practices 
• Identification and ownership of NFRs. 
• Actively encourage and provide knowledge transfer during the delivery stride.

Experience required

• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining applications written in either of Java, Kotlin or Python.
• Web services development experience using spring boot or similar.
• Web development experience using HTML, CSS and a JavaScript/TypeScript framework, preferably Angular 2+.
• Experience with SQL and relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL.
• Experience with development tools such as Git, Maven, npm etc.
• Experience with Cloud technologies (Google Cloud Platform preferred but others would be considered). 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Service Mesh Technologies preferably Istio or Anthos
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or Terraform.
• Experience with BigQuery is an added advantage.

A good mix of the competencies mentioned above is required for the candidate to be successful within a squad in Data Tribe. The squad will contain engineers with similar profile with various areas of expertise. The senior is expected to make use of these expertise areas to arrive at a solution that can be built, delivered and operated in a productionized environment.

Location

This role can be offered on a hybrid or fully remote working basis.

Interview Process

The process includes an on-line technical test and a 1-stage interview via MS teams taking place throughout October and November. 

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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