Full Stack Engineer

Principal responsibilities

The full stack Engineering job is responsible for working across the Technology delivery lifecycle including inception, construction, testing, release and ongoing management of a product or service in a pod within a Technology team.

They will be required to continually enhance their skills within a number of specialisms which include front end, development, security, testing, and operational support.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Provide support across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilising their skills and expertise to carry out software development, testing and operational support activities with the ability to move between these according to demand.
• End to end accountability for a product or service, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions to meet customer needs as part of the Customer Journey
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service’s direction.
• Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.
• Create technical test plans and records, including unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.
• Provide support to DevOps teams working at all stages of a product or service release/change with a strong customer focus and end to end journeys, ensuring they have an excellent domain knowledge.
• Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.
• Provide support in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by leadership of the DevOps team,
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
• Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable
• Provide leadership within an engineering discipline (API, UI etc)
• Own the engineering standards for the digital platforms within that discipline
• Work across Pods to ensure consistency of quality and delivery ways of working
• Feed in to the technical leadership of digital platforms
• Build relationships with Engineering Leads from other IT teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• 5 or more years of hands-on development experience with capacity in defining architectures, technology roadmaps, and leading a team of engineers
• Proficiency developing with modern programming languages and web technologies, and ability to rapidly develop proof-of-concepts
• Expert on FE development technologies like React, Nodejs, Angular, NPM, PHP, Python, and Adobe Experience Manager, etc
• Ability to work with geographically distributed and cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to define technology roadmaps and drive its execution
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP is highly desired
• Experience building highly available, secure, distributed systems
• Experience building extremely high volume and highly scalable web services
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI or CD pipeline