Job Description

Salary: \xc2\xa375,900 per annum

Join the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Technology team as a Lead Software Developer. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Pharmaceutical Press\'s publishing software, systems, and customer-facing digital products. Beyond their technical expertise, they will offer valuable supervision and guidance to the team, ensuring the establishment and upkeep of development processes and work practices.

Requirements:

• Leadership and team building skills, with the ability to create a shared vision, delegation of responsibilities and the development and motivation of team members.

• Practical experience in system design, development, testing and operational stability.

• Deep understanding of software design, code quality, technical debt, cost of ownership.

• Ability to gather non-functional requirements, propose architectural options and evaluate trade-offs.

• Deep knowledge and experience in Python and its ecosystem, patterns and pitfalls.

• Experience of working in an agile environment and an understanding of Scrum principles in particular.

• Experience applying continuous delivery, test driven development and pair programming.

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies, such as React JavaScript (or Angular or Vue.js with a view to using React).

• Experience writing and consuming RESTful APIs in Python.

• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, API gateways, S3).

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise work, and work to deadlines.

• Good communication, negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to provide clear explanations and technical guidance to non-technical audience.

How we are currently working

RPS supports and works in a hybrid way which means you will be able to work from home. However, there will be an expectation for collaborative face-to-face working, on average and typically, this may be something between 4-8 working days per month at our London Office.

\xf0\x9f\x97\x93\xef\xb8\x8f Closing date: 21 September 2023

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Please attach your CV and Cover Letter

We are passionate about creating a culture of belonging, inclusion, and diversity these are part of our core values at RPS and we are striving to have an organisation that represents the diversity of the profession. At RPS we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

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