Job Description

Role

Please note this job is only open to Staffordshire University students and recent graduates, no other applications will be considered!

The client is a FTSE 100 listed company which builds around 14,500 beautifully designed new homes a year across 380 locations nationwide. They are one of the UK\'s largest 5-star leading housebuilders, committed to the highest standards of design, construction and service. They believe that our demanding quality standards and focus on innovation differentiate us from the competition and it is this on which our reputation is built. They are recruiting for a Graduate Systems Developer to strengthen their small but growing Digital team. The role can be based in Manchester with a flexible hybrid working option to work remotely up to three days a week.

What is the role?

They are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual with great technical and people skills. You will be working within digital landscape to help deliver industry leading business applications to support our business and customers. This will involve determining requirements, designing, building, and maintaining web and mobile applications.

Duties and responsibilities
You will:

• Collaborate and coordinate with multiple cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to develop web and mobile applications.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Produce user stories and organise workloads into sprints.
• Collaborate on technological choices, tools and business processes to ensure useability, reliability, adoption and future proofing.
• Document code, processes and dependencies.
• Domestic travel to attend meetings and support projects (typically less than 10% travel).

Skills and experience

What you\'ll need to succeed

Understanding of the follow technologies:

• HTML5 / CSS3
• Typescript - Angular with Material, RxJS
• Flutter
• Jakarta EE (Java) - RESTful web services, EJB, CDI, JPA, JSONB, JMS
• SQL and a firm understanding of relational databases (ideally with PostgreSQL server preferred)
• Podman (Docker) containers, including familiarity with Enterprise Linux (RHEL, ORACLE, CENTOS)
• Excellent communication skills, at all levels to gather and analyse business requirements.
• Work collaboratively with other Developers, Project Owners, QA engineers and end users.
• Able to prioritise time across multiple major projects particularly when working to deadlines.

Location
Remote (once a month Manchester office)

Benefits
What\'s in it for you:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus (up to 12% pa)
• Company car / car allowance
• 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days after 5 years of service)
• Pension

Additional information

Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory background check e.g. employment history and criminal record check.

Staffordshire University