Senior Full Stack Developer - Remote, Work from Home

We are recruiting Senior Full Stack Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Full Stack Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Our Senior Full Stack Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a senior consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team’s technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

Your role in nutshell: Act as a technical SME within the squad to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
Involved in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
Promote our Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)

About the Candidate:
Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
The full development lifecycle delivering user-centered digital solutions
A full stack developer skilled in programming using languages such as Python, Node, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
JavaScript library and framework experience – React, Angular
Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
Experience of Microservices design and architecture
Restful API Services experience
Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
Infrastructure As Code – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
Expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild and Atlassian