Swoop are seeking to appoint Lead Back-end role reporting to the Head of Technology to work as an integral figure within the team.
You’ll need to have excellent technical skills, with an appetite to learn and a commitment to making a difference to our users. You’ll join an agile development team based in Cornwall, working with offices based in North America.
Responsibilities:
• Developing the software, planning sprints and managing the sprint lifecycle
• Activity managing a Kanban board, ensuring client SLA’s are met
• Supporting the app support team
• Developing products and services with a focus on adding value to our customers
• Working as part of cross-functional agile team
• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
• Working with other developers to improve processes and code quality
• Leading and helping to plan development on our projects and products
• Having an understanding of all our systems, and sharing this with others on the team
Skills:
• Demonstrable experience of working as a professional web developer
• Empathy, a pragmatic attitude, and the ability to see the bigger picture
• Excellent knowledge of Node JS, JavaScript ES6+, noSQL databases debugging and refactoring
• Experience working with cloud app and data environments
• Experience writing unit tests and/or integration tests and test-driven development
• Experience of working in an agile team focussed on continuous delivery
• Experience using Docker containerisation and Git version-control
• Leadership and team management
Benefits
• 25 days' leave, plus public holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life assurance cover
• Free Fruit in the office
• Share Options