Software Developer

Software Developer

6-month contract

Edinburgh

Hybrid

Outside IR35

£480 per day

Harvey Nash's public sector client is currently looking to recruit a Developer to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6-month period.

Description

An experienced developer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate a move from legacy on-prem registers to new cloud-native solutions. The focus of the work will be the collaborative development of new serverless micro-services using AWS Lambda functions and TypeScript/JavaScript.

Essential Skills

AWS including

CDK

Serverless (Lambda)

S3

API Gateway

CloudFormation

TypeScript (or modern JavaScript)

Making excellent quality software with other people.

Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering value.

Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.

Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills

Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.

Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards

Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes

Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development

Defining infrastructure-as-code

Desirable Skills

Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices

Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress

Use of UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces