Job Description

Zaizi is looking for a Senior Software Developer with solid technology skills, but who is also passionate about improving outcomes and the user experience. You'll be reliable in your own deliverables but also curious about and offer innovative ideas to others in a mutli-disciplinary team.



Our work culture is inclusive, modern, friendly, and democratic. We look for bright, positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do - if that sounds like you, you'll fit right in!

Requirements

Essential skills:

Ways of working

Developing digital solutions delivered to the GDS standard Demonstrable experience working on Agile environments Demonstrable experience working on product development environments based on observation, experimentation and user research Demonstrable experience working in multi-disciplinary/DevOps teams which include product owner/manager, UX designers, UX researchers, Developers, Platform engineers, etc Demonstrable experience working on continuous improvement environments doing multiple releases every week Team leadership and mentoring experience
Integrity / honesty

Coding and testing:

Demonstrable experience designing, coding and debugging Java based systems Good skills in web front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Java 8 Spring Boot Docker Kubernetes Atlassian Build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant Familiar with source control systems, such as GIT, including branching, merging, etc. Testing: TDD, unit testing, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress Good knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL including data modelling, SQL scripts, store procedures
Shift to the left: Functional test automation (API testing, UI testing [cucumber, nightwatch)

Nice to have skills:

AWS Knowledge of Open Source BPMN workflow engines (Camunda, Activiti or Flowable) Experience on a front-end javascript framework such as react, angular or vue.js RedHat OpenShift for container orchestration
Knowledge of NCSC's 14 cloud security principles.

You don't meet all the requirements?

Studies show that women and black, Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role here at Zaizi.

SC Clearance:

Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays


Vitality medical insurance

Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution

Group Life Assurance

Cyclescheme

5 days a year for approved Training

WFH equipment allowance

Buy / Sell Holiday

2 days paid volunteering days



Other benefits:

Flexible working

Work on exciting projects - make a difference

Empowered to make decisions

Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly