Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Pole Star Group

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, AWS, Cloud, Docker, iOS, Java, Jenkins, jQuery, Linux, Maven, MySQL, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, SOAP, Vagrant
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer at Pole Star ensuring robust and secure architecture. Developing backend, frontend, iOS, and Android applications while collaborating cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards ensuring the architecture of Pole Star is robust and secure
• Carry out development work, including backend, frontend, iOS and Android development
• Ensure all back end, web and mobile apps work together efficiently, seamlessly and securely
• Support the existing product working with older technologies such as jQuery, Java 8 and MySQL
• Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platform
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions
• Review the current AWS framework for Pole Star and recommend changes to support best practice
• Manage AWS cloud administration and issue required reports related to usage and costs
• Identify technologies to be used and ensure they are established, robust, future proof and well supported
• Collaborate with team members to determine best practices and requirements for software, architecture and data storage
• Supporting architecture reviews etc by external parties
• Be involved in the design/architecture/development/programming/testing and deployment of new software solutions including front end (Full stack)
• Work with support on investigations and fixes of data and provide help on the Database when required
• Write reusable code and libraries and improving processes
• Manage the code base/repository
• Integrate backend code with front end
• Deploying all new code
• Problem solve and fix bugs
• Integrate third party and internal APIs
• Data Import and export functionality
• Write user-facing features
• Support maintenance and testing of modules and components
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Work with the QA team and support when required for testing purposes

Requirements

• At least 5-7 years relevant experience in the backend and apps development
• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
• BS degree in computer science or similar
• Familiar with infrastructure automation technologies like Docker, Vagrant, etc.
• Familiar with build automation technologies like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
• Familiar with monitoring technologies like Nagios, Ganglia, etc.
• Familiar with modern programming languages like Java, Python, etc.
• Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
• Experience with scripting languages like Perl, Shell, etc.
• Linux Server Management, Shell scripting
• AWS solutions architect experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team Player and be able to lead by example
• Problem Solving

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday (plus Christmas shutdown)
• Benefits Package and Pension
• Hybrid Working (we are currently remote first moving to hybrid working - London Based)
• Flexible working hours
• Home Office Equipment (Desk, Chair, Laptop, Mobile devices (As required))