Software Developer – Technical Lead

Salary: £60,000 – £72,000 per year

An established software company in Dorset is looking for a Technical Lead to join their growing team of software developers. This is a permanent, fulltime position for a candidate who would be excited to work on projects in VR, cloud-based software, mobile app and web development. This is for an immediate start with working from the office 5 days a week. 

Hours: 9am – 5:30pm Monday to Friday

Salary Range: £50,000 – £60,000

The candidate will sit alongside the other Technical Leads and will work on solution and coding.

The key responsibilities are:  

• Develop user interfaces by setting expectations and feature priorities throughout the development life cycle 
• Determining design methodologies and tool sets 
• Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms
• Progressively update knowledge by researching new web technologies and software products
• Advise and contribute on feasibility and timescales during project tendering and planning stages
• Carry out online research for new projects
• Lead a team of software developers in the projects they are involved in, taking responsibility for quality of the technical output from their team

The key requirements are:

• WordPress development skills including theme and plugin development
• Strong JavaScript skills (understanding of ES6) and frameworks such as jQuery and Angular
• Front end skills (Sass/JS) and frameworks
• At least 10 years’ experience working with PHP 7 and MySQL databases
• Be used to the MVC development pattern and frameworks such as Laravel 
• Comfortable working within terminal command-line tools and Linux servers 
• Understanding of digital security principles and best practice
• Experience with web-based API integrations such as REST and SOAP 
• Understanding of build tools such as Composer/NPM/Yarn etc
• Experience of using project management tools such as Asana and Kanban style task tracking
• Able to communicate progress/blockers and identify difficulties/risks to progress ahead of time
• Experience with working as a full stack developer

 Benefits:  

• Career progression encouraged
• Social events 
• Tea and coffee (bean to cup!) provided
• Friendly team of people who are motivated and enjoy what they do
• Workplace pension scheme

The candidate will be an integral part of projects embarked upon by the team and this will include working alongside other developers, designers, software business analysts and testers to produce high quality, digital products and services.

If you have the above skills send an up-to-date CV to Sian at Gainham Recruitment, or phone.