Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer

Up to 55kpa

Remote First (1 or 2 days per month in York)

Are you an experienced Full Stack Developer looking to work in the Tech for Good Space?

Do you want to work with amazing people developing digital systems that help make a real difference to young people and their education?

WRK digital are delighted to be working with one of the leading EdTech companies in the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the team and direction as they move forward with exciting projects.

-Work with some of the latest technology including Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native services and Headless.
-A starting salary of up to 55,000
-Excellent learning and development opportunities with paid for training and certifications
-Extremely generous holiday entitlement - 30 days plus bank holidays
-Access to a fantastic pension scheme with circa 21% employer contributions
-Regular team meet-ups
-Staff wellbeing sessions
-Access to a salary sacrifice and staff benefits scheme including cycle to work scheme; health cash back plans; free eye tests; discounted vouchers

The Role

Working alongside product managers and designers in a small, cross skilled team you will deliver intuitive and delightful user experiences through robust and performant systems. You will have the opportunity to work on multiple projects, from feature improvements and technical debt reduction to brand new service development. You will:

- Get involved in the full software lifecycle, from inception through to deployment, release and post go live support
- Help champion best practices in order to develop clean, resilient code.
- Contribute to the development and direction of the team
- Help promote a culture of collaboration, care and high quality through peer reviews, code audits and the development of a positive supporting culture
- Proactively help with production issues and release management

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a developer with several years' experience shipping modern apps using Javascript, React and the Next.js framework. You will:

- Have and eye for detail, delivering pixel perfect high performance front ends
- Have experience building APIs that are intuitive to consume and quick to respond
- Have shipped products built using Headless CMSes and be comfortable with content modelling concepts (Contentful experience desriable)
- Solid experience building testing strategies - Test driven/behaviour driven development, units testing, end to end testing frameworks
- Experience building and deploying static and dynamic web applications on Vercel and Netlify (desirable)
- Previous experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of Git and Github actions
- Be able to work on multiple projects at one time

Next Steps

If you are a Developer in the web or software engineering space looking to join a Tech for Good company working with the latest tech and leading innovations, then please apply now or contact Daniel Lunn at WRK digital for a confidential conversation around the next steps. We look forward to receiving your application.