This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business to help build a new team of Developers, responsible for working on highly prestigious client accounts predominantly within the banking and gaming industries. Based in Farnborough, they are taking new office space situated directly opposite Farnborough mainline train station, therefore no need to drive if you don’t want to! Farnborough is only 35 minutes from London and has excellent commuter links.
Working within a small, friendly and rapidly growing team, they can offer you a very friendly and fun place to work with excellent facilities, a short walk into a town centre and close to all amenities. Offering excellent rates of pay, a fun environment and within a growing and exciting business, this is a fantastic opportunity.
Job Description
They are looking for a highly motivated lead developer to join their management team to help us build a development function to deliver multiple programmes in the banking and gambling industries.
You should have a very strong technical background, an excellent record of developing and delivering software solutions in client-focused environments and experience of mentoring junior members of the development team. An in-depth understanding of telemetry and automation would be very advantageous.
Responsibilities:
- Build a development function and help with the recruitment of a team to deliver multiple programmes.
- Put in place the development systems, environments and practices to support Agile software development
- Provide hands-on software development, working closely with their client teams using Agile development processes
- Provide technical expertise and architectural design support for a variety of CRM, Gaming and Telemetry programmes
- Development planning and estimating
- Carrying out peer reviews
- Act as a champion for best practices and continuous learning
- Act as a mentor for junior members of the development team
- Working closely with the management team to shape their technical training and development.
Technical skills and experience
- Demonstrable experience in leading and technically driving solutions is a must.
- Back end development (e.g. Java 8, Node.JS, JMS and ActiveMQ)
- Front end development experience desirable (e.g. Javascript, HTML 5, CSS 3, PHP)
- Integration technology
- Telemetry systems design, architecture and operation
- Time Series Databases
- Testing tools and methodologies
- Database design and programming, particularly using open source data technologies
- Sound understanding of software development life cycle models and familiarisation of software version control tools (specifically GIT).
- Fluency in additional programming languages an advantage
- Strong analytical, communication and presentation skills are extremely important to this role, including the ability to communicate and engage with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels.