Full Stack JS Engineer
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Role Mission
To contribute to a B2C platform for students that helps hundreds of thousands of students develop their employability skills and find opportunities. And to help build a major new platform for employers to find the right graduates for their organisations.
Why It’s Exciting
Through a love of tech, we help students, educators, and employers.
Description
* You’ll work on a relatively new web platform as a key person in an enthusiastic dev and product team. The platform is based on a microservice architecture using a range of best practice tools and frameworks.
* You'll form part of the Tribe pushing tech boundaries.
Who This Role Might Suit
We’re looking for a JS developer with good experience of full stack web application development using JS frameworks; the right candidate will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of web application development, JS front‑end and back‑end frameworks, and working in a collaborative self‑organising squad.
Responsibilities
* Work within a cross‑functional Agile Squad to deliver Product roadmap value.
* Support the squad by solving daily issues and tasks.
* Support product quality by contributing to acceptance criteria and writing automated unit and integration tests.
* Perform peer reviews and maintain documentation needed by internal stakeholders.
* Contribute to our processes to merge, deploy, and ship changes to our clients.
* Identify technical debt and propose practical solutions to resolve.
* Measure and improve software performance.
* Understand developer security responsibilities and identify issues.
* Add value to the wider technical team by sharing experience, learnings, and skills.
* Identify and share areas for continual improvement.
* Stay up to date with the latest tools and frameworks using allocated personal development time.
Required Knowledge & Skills
* A UK BSc in Computer Science or equivalent IT qualification.
* Excellent JavaScript / TypeScript.
* Experience with Node.js.
* Experience with either React, Angular or Vue.
* Experience developing REST APIs.
* Good understanding of OpenAPI / API documentation.
* SQL & NoSQL data persistence.
* Git / GitLab / CI/CD Pipelines.
* Docker + Microservices.
Desirable
* Unit / integration testing with Jest.
* NestJS framework.
* Jamstack – Gatsby / NextJS.
* Experience of RabbitMQ, SOLR.
* Experience with Java and Vert.X.
* AWS.
Competencies
* Ability to assess problems clearly and identify the key to their solution.
* Ability to deal with a large complex code base.
* A good understanding of different design patterns, how and why they are used.
* Growth and outcomes mindset.
* Team player with excellent communication skills.
* Critical attention to detail and high level of accuracy.
* Proactive, adaptable and a quick learner.
* Professional, focused, conscientious, efficient, with excellent time management skills.
* A good understanding of the principles of software development and a passion for promoting software craftsmanship.
* Trustworthy, courageous, and respectful of the contributions of others.
Other Information
* Permanent role – 37.5 hours per week.
* 3‑month probationary period.
Candidates applying for roles at GTI will be subject to background screening. You can find out more about our background screening and the recruitment of ex‑offenders by reading our policies.
If you would like to speak to a member of our team to find out more information about this vacancy or you have any questions, please get in touch.
About Group GTI
We aim to help students realise their potential in the world of work through technology, content and tools. It’s not an easy thing. We believe in understanding students and partnering with employers, universities, schools and other technology providers. It’s about students finding the right role and employers finding the most suitable candidates. But it’s more than that – it’s about helping young people discover options, develop and build confidence.
Seniority Level
Entry level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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