Job Description

Software Engineer, Mid 2

The role
We're looking for a Mid Software Engineer to join our digital product delivery function. Red Badger delivers high-quality digital products using a lean delivery process and multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams.

The work we do for our clients involves dealing with the core complexities of their business and the technology we employ varies from project to project.

You are well on your way to having good knowledge and experience in one or more programming languages in both the frontend and backend of the stack, excited to dig deeper into the areas you already know as well as expand your skills into different languages, technologies and practices.

You are passionate about the craft of software development and contribute to technical and non-technical discussions that help shape the direction of digital product delivery. You are able to work independently, as well as collaboratively, on user stories within an agile delivery environment and are versed in modern software delivery practices. You care about creating quality software that meets the needs of our client's vision and goals, in a thoughtfully pragmatic way.

As well as contributing to production-grade code bases, you will also be proactive in working directly with the client to help shape and move the project forward and, where required, helping to upskill and embed good development practices within existing, newly formed or client/Badger blended cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

Discipline Expertise

Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers, engineers & testers

Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software

Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks Begin to coach & support peers
Provide support to a live product (based on client's needs)

Agile Ways of Working

Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers

Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end working with agile principles

Actively contribute to agile ceremonies

Consulting with clients Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward

Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary


Your experience
It'd be great if you have experience with:

Frontend web technologies (e.g. Javascript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)

Backend technologies (e.g. Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, etc.)

Effective source-control management using Git

Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing

Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

Collaborating in cross-functional teams

It'd be amazing if you can also:

Work with virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Build, maintain and debug CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)

Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (e.g. Relay, GraphQL, Apollo, etc.)

Understand, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud based architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

Work with and debug data storage layer technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)

* Support a live system, respond to alerts, diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling, triage and resolve incidents