This role is to focus on the continued development and maintenance of an innovative and new web platform using Django. The platform supports the rest of the team deliver high quality VR solutions and enables clients to gather data for the purposes of training and development. This includes app distribution and user performance measurement as well as a number of tools which help with the development of the training apps.
You are a self-starter who is comfortable in all aspects of the web implementation cycle. This will include gathering requirements, designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining web
applications.
As the primary web application developer, you will also be involved in the maintenance of servers and
development of some smaller web development projects.
Primary Job Function:
- Building new features for the main web platform. This includes all steps of the implementation
cycle from requirements gathering to deploying on production.
- Maintaining the main web platform, by fixing bugs, optimising and monitoring potential issues before they are picked up by end users.
- Server management: keeping updated and monitoring resource usage.
- Supporting clients as well as internal users.
- Giving guidance on how to use the system via email, phone and screen share.
- Demonstrating the platform features to potential users and prospective clients.
- Working with other team members with different disciplines to develop and enhance the
platform.
- Organising the performance metric gathering for new apps.
- Maintaining the cross-platform mobile app for distributing our apps.
General Duties:
- Participating in team meetings and R&D sessions.
- Providing ideas and advice for the sales team as and when required.
- Communicate ideas for improving company processes with a positive and constructive attitude,
and help develop this attitude in others.
- Participate in testing of software solutions and provide feedback.
- Completing timesheets and updating the Project Management System (Liquid Planner).
- Any other reasonable requests made by the management team.
- Participating in learning technology events and shows when required.
Skills & Experience:
Essential Skills:
- Extensive experience of development using Python, Django, JavaScript, HTML & CSS.
- Proven track record as a software developer with at least 3 years’ experience in web application
development.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Self-motivated and able to organise your workload in order to deliver projects on time and to a
high standard.
Desirable Skills:
- Linux administration (Bash, NGINX, Gunicorn)
- SQL (ideally PostgreSQL & MySQL)
- Experience with ecommerce development
- An interest in learning technologies
- JavaScript libraries: C3.js, joint.js, Datatables, jQuery
- xAPI
- PHP (WordPress)
- C# (Unity3D)
Benefits:
- Pension Plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Child Care Vouchers
- R&D days
- The possibility for flexible working