Technical Lead

Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits

3 month FTC with possible extension

Where the job is based: hybrid (home-based & working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ

Who we are: Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we are not just another tech company. We are the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients while driving extreme value!

The role / Who we are looking for:

• Transform our clients with effective technical end to end delivery.
• Design and iterate on technical solutions which match the desired architectural landscape.
• “Hands-on” leadership with regards to coding, leading by example and working to ensure the team is aligned and understands why not just what.
• Work with the Delivery Manager to continually iterate and improve on ways of working, helping to develop the team and ensure the quality and pace of the objectives.
• Lead on technical discussions.
• Own constructing “best practice” and sharing that within the team.
• Be a key part of Kerv’s technical leadership, helping shape the future of the company.
• Lead on communications with the client and any partners.
• Communicate with our clients throughout the development process.
• Ensure the team delivers high standards of code quality, through peer-review, in team mentoring, etc.
• Agile, both in the delivery methodology and in ability to technically react.
• Champion the principles of accessibility (never deliberately excluding anyone).

Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrable and proven experience in full-stack applications (inc. working knowledge of a range of technologies such as React, Node.js and TypeScript and .Net).
• Experience with Azure and ARM templates including dev and deployment of supporting cloud infrastructure (inc. pipelines).
• Strong experience of continuous integration processes and pipelines.
• Excellent, in-depth understanding of BDD, TDD and SOLID principles.
• In-depth experience in rock-solid Object Oriented programming, enterprise integration skills and microservice architecture skills.
• Extensive experience utilising multiple technologies to support the architectural design and team (e.g. Java, .Net, Node.js, C#, React, Angular, Spring, Kubernetes & Docker and Mobile experience).
• Love clean code, love helping others achieve it.
• A good understanding of WCAG 2.2 would be preferable.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.

Personal attributes:

• Passionate about tech.
• Keen to share that passion with their colleagues and clients.
• Able to “speak geek”… the ability to articulate to non-technical people, technical concepts in a way they understand.
• Organised and able to manage your own and others workloads.

Professional attributes:

• Experienced enough to be able to size up / estimate work and help others to do the same.
• Familiar with the public sector (preferable).
• Experience working as / for a partner (preferable).
• Experience working with senior people within clients.

We are also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like:

• Happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed.
• An obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• An escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team.
• Ability to work effectively with remote colleagues in other countries.
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales.

What we can do for you:

• Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want.
• Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on.
• Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us.
• Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some.
• Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India.

More on equality: At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together.