Senior Software Engineer

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Made Tech empowers public sector organisations to deliver award-winning services for citizens and they need passionate people to help them. They want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. They are already working with brilliant public servants to modernise technology and accelerate digital delivery. But they know they can do more to help those who share their vision. Use your skills to transform our society - join Made Tech in delivering technology that positively impacts the future of the UK.

Location: Hybrid working in Swansea (2 days per week on-site).

About the role

Are you a Software Engineer that wants to actually see the real-world impact from what you help to create? They believe they can use tech to make public services better. They also believe this can happen best when the team represents the society that uses the services they work on. At Made Tech, they're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so they encourage all people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with them.

What does the job entail?

They primarily write and deliver custom software for the public sector. They work across central and local government, as well as in health, and their past lies in the technology startup world. Technical excellence for them isn’t about delivering to feature lists. They place a strong emphasis on outcome-based delivery; ensuring their customer’s goals are understood and achieved with the technology they deploy.

Senior Software Engineers find themselves working on a variety of different problems from monoliths to microservices, upskilling colleagues and customers, always finding themselves learning from others, while constantly striving to be nice humans :)

Their teams have used Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, ES6 with React, as well as C# with .NET Core. They don’t limit themselves as a company and they expect all their Engineers to be keen on learning new technologies. Automation is important, so they make sure there is a CD pipeline set up to build, test, and release many times per day.

High-performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to iteratively and rapidly deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this they combine their extensive cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture.

They ensure they document their architecture and infrastructure as code, using technologies such as Terraform and OpenAPI. Containerisation is a big part of empowering teams to develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using AWS Lambda and avoiding the complexity of stateful services altogether. Right tool for the job.

For them, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOps experience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You won't be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other people's work into production. You'll empower teams with the mantra: you build it, you run it!

They grow a team of language-agnostic engineers, which you might already consider yourself to be, who are versed in a mix of paradigms such as object-oriented, functional, declarative, event-based and aspect-oriented. To create this environment their Senior Software Engineers need to embrace sharing their knowledge and skills with others, and they need to keep an open mind – they’d love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members. Maybe you will have written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two.

What experience are they looking for?

They want their teams and individuals to grow. If you don’t have the following skills, you will have access to a learning budget, experienced team members and a wider learning and mentoring culture that can help you develop the following

* Written code with tests

* Delivery in an agile environment

* Worked across a variety of programming languages

* Worked with databases

* Worked with APIs

* Debugging experience in a range of systems

* Evidence of self-development – they value keen learners

* Drive to deliver outcomes for users

* Desire to mentor others

Nice to Haves

* Consultancy experience

* Working directly with customers and users

* Working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles

* Showcasing and presentation skills

* Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban

* Pair programming – they pair around 50% of the time

* Writing code with test-driven development

* Component-based design techniques such as using pattern libraries, styled-components, CSS-in-JS, BEM, and/or SUIT CSS

* Debugging infrastructure

* The React ecosystem including a test-driven approach

* Infrastructure as code technology like Terraform and Cloud Formation

* Familiarity with architectural and design patterns

* Use of architectural decision records

Life at Made Tech

They’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as their client work and best practice).

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

✈️ 30 days Holiday - they offer 30 days of paid annual leave

🕰️ Flexible Working Hours - they are flexible with what hours you work

👶 Flexible Parental Leave - they offer flexible parental leave options

👩‍💻 Remote Working - they offer part time remote working for all our staff

🤗 Paid counselling - they offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice