Lead Full Stack Engineer

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Are you up for the challenge of creating seamless user experiences from every angle? Our Digital team are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer confident in the JavaScript/TypeScript stack, from front-of-frontend through to Node APIs and infrastructure. You will work alongside colleagues from across PA, delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome. We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll be working as part of a larger team who are collectively responsible for delivering functioning solutions to our clients. You'll have the support of experienced professionals within the team, who can give you guidance and help you make decisions. We work alongside our clients daily as an extension of their own teams to build relationships, discuss their needs, refine solutions, report progress, and provide technical support. You will be required to have excellent client facing skills as well as solid technical knowledge and development craft skills.

What you'll be doing:

• Expect to use your knowledge of architecture; our clients will look to you for advice and contribution in higher level architectural discussions.
• Own the development process for your team, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place across architecture, scope, code quality, infrastructure and deployments.
• Model team behaviour for writing specifications and acceptance criteria, estimating stories, sprint planning and documentation.
• Actively define and evolve PA's engineering standards and practices ensuring we maintain a shared, modern and robust approach.
• It's important you feel comfortable influencing team discussions with the client on the project.
• Coach and mentor others in the team, regardless of seniority, working with them to build their expertise and understanding.
• Your involvement in shaping bids (working with a bid team) will assist to create approaches or proposals, and perhaps you may also add valuable contributions during presentations to clients in a formal selection process.

Qualifications:

• Proven expertise of architecting and developing full stack web applications using TypeScript including React and expertise in UI engineering using CSS, strong knowledge of accessibility compliance and working with designers to deliver design systems in code.
• Demonstrable experience of backend API development with Node.js including databases, ORM patterns (e.g. Prisma) and designing service-oriented architectures.
• Experience of developing cloud-native applications in one of AWS, Azure or GCP, ideally using a serverless architecture (e.g. functions, message queues, databases, API gateways, authentication).
• Developer or Architect level cloud certification or equivalent experience.
• Good understanding of software testing approaches (TDD, BDD) and associated frameworks (e.g. unit testing, Testing Library, Cypress etc).
• Experience of agile software development including sprints, work estimation and developing acceptance criteria.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD patterns and efficient release management strategies.

Additional information:

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' views about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people.

Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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