Description
Outside IR35: £competitive day rate
Project Overview:
- Joining a large platform build project in financial services domain (not a bank)
- Joining a cross functional team of 8 (software engineers, tech lead, delivery lead, product, QA)
- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: 5 months and extremely likely to extend 12 months +
- Working arrangement: 2 days/week in person working (London)
- Immediate Interviews
Company Culture:
The best bit about Red Badger is the team. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.
Our founders, Dave, Cain and Stu have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own 100% of the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning.
We are based at Old Street in the heart of “tech city” and get thoroughly stuck in with the brilliant community around us. We run several meetups including React London, invite other groups to host their events in our office such as Lua London and Ladies Who Code, and speak at events like Digital Shoreditch and LNUG.
Role Description:
We’re looking for a Freelance Senior Software Engineer to join our digital product delivery function. Red Badger builds high-quality digital products using a lean delivery process with multidisciplinary cross-functional teams. The work involves dealing with core complexities of clients' businesses while employing various technologies depending on projects.
You will be a polyglot with extensive experience across multiple technologies/projects who enjoys tackling tough problems while expanding your skills into different languages/technologies/practices. You’ll be comfortable designing solutions closely with clients to ensure proper delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
Discipline Expertise:
- Providing engineering expertise as part of cross-functional delivery team alongside engineers, designers, QA.
- Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software.
- Ability to adapt to new languages/frameworks.
- Choosing appropriate technology for tasks while striving for simplicity.
Coach & Support Peers:
- Providing support for live digital products based on client needs.
Agile Ways of Working:
- Pair programming with team members including designers/QAs.
- Owning end-to-end user story delivery using agile principles.
- Leading/supporting peers in technical decisions.
Consulting with Clients:
- Proactively engaging clients to shape/move projects forward by providing updates on progress/highlighting potential blockers.
- Upskilling/embedding modern software practices within client teams when necessary.
Experience Requirements:
It’d be great if you have experience with:
1. Backend technologies (C# and .NET).
2. Relational/Non-relational databases (e.g., ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL).
3. System architecture approaches (e.g., microservices, event sourcing).
4. Virtualisation/orchestration tools (e.g., VMs, Docker) & infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform).
5. CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
6. Effective source-control management using Git.
7.Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit/API/end-to-end testing.
8.Working within lean/agile practices like Kanban/Scrum.
9.Collaborating within cross-functional teams.
It’d be amazing if you can also:
1.Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (i.e., Relay GraphQL).
2.Design/build/debug cloud-based architectures following Everything-as-Code principles.
3.Design an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally/continuously.
4.Support highly available live production systems by responding to alerts/logs/tools for diagnosing problems/troubleshooting incidents.