Full Stack Engineer
Location: Flexible working with visits to our office in Wimbledon as and when required.
Salary: Competitive
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join a cross-disciplinary agile team developing and supporting high quality web products for business clients
The role:
You will be working with Developers, DevOps and Engineering teams in a dynamic environment to promote/implement “secure by design” solutions
Delivering high quality code and comfortable being responsible for the quality of that code including writing enough automation to ensure it works as expected
Be involved in sprint planning to ensure work is delivered in line with the Product Owners priorities
Work with stakeholders and product owners to ensure requirements match business needs
Support and mentor other engineers who are not as confident as you in particular areas
Domestic & General is a company with an ambitious future. We are expanding our horizons and entering new markets and we need your expertise to help make it happen. We are an international company who works with some of the worlds most respected and well-known brands of domestic appliances and electronic consumer goods. These opportunities don’t come around often, so this really is a position not to be missed.
What you’ll bring:
- Solid communication skills and expertise to translate technical jargon into business familiar language.
- Ability to quickly explore, examine and understand complex problems and how these relate to the customer’s business.
- Adaptable, able to quickly switch between projects, demands and environments.
- Stakeholder management and business awareness skills, ability to understand and interpret customer problems and navigate complex organisations.
- Self-motivated and self-educating, yet willing and able to work collaboratively Well organised with a healthy sense of urgency; able to set, communicate and meet aggressive deadlines with competing priorities.
- Excellent pragmatic problem-solving skills.
- Highly accurate and detail-oriented
- Able to champion great practice and mentor and support colleagues
- Comfortable architecting simple solutions to problems
Desired experience and skills:
- Working on multiple engineering teams over several years building and supporting complex production applications
- Working with modern frontend frameworks, at least some recent experience working professionally with React
- Full stack JavaScript and Typescript, node.js
- Working with serverless cloud infrastructure
- Deploying with applications to the cloud with infrastructure as code
- TDD and automatic testing including end to end testing frameworks such as Cypress; automating should be second nature.
- Building observable systems and supporting the application beyond deployment, e.g., logging, distributed tracing, metrics
- Working on green fields projects and designing a solution from scratch
- Experience working on agile teams that work in a highly collaborative fashion with a bias towards pairing (or even mobbing) with colleagues to get work done.
- Deploying IAC using the AWS CDK
- Recent experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression
- Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
- Attractive company pension scheme
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
- Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services:
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll
- Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand new vehicles
- Travel Loans – interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets
- Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
- OnHand – Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help.
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
- Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends
- Employee discounts – access to discounted Sky TV and broadband packages, together with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers
Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.