Senior Backend Developer

The role

Overview & purpose

Reporting to the Data Strategy Lead, the Senior Backend Developer will help design and build software solutions in organised, testable and reusable manner. While Ark Data Centres have offices in Farnborough, Corsham and London, this role is 100% remote and the candidate can work anywhere in the UK.

Key responsibilities & duties

• Develop and maintain robust, high-performing NodeJS applications utilising TypeScript.
• Customise development and build tools.
• Implement industry standard best practices and utilise renown supporting libraries.
• Assist in designing, implementing, and maintaining our Back End development tools and processes.
• Write clean, tested, well-documented, and maintainable code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Continued contribution to both unit and integrated testing for all delivered code.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Front End developers.
• Stay up to date with latest trends and emerging technologies in Back End NodeJS development and share knowledge with the team.

About you

Experience

• Experience in architecting large and/or enterprise level Backend-end applications.
• Ideally 10+ years of Server Side development experience.
• Experience in using and deploying to cloud technologies.
• Deep understanding of standard code design principles, such as SOLID, DI, etc.
• Extensive experience with writing optimised SQL.

Skills & qualifications

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• At least 10 years' of Back End development; seasoned Back End developers that understand how the Javascript and NodeJS ecosystem has developed over the years and have worked with evolving Javascript and NodeJS technologies.
• At least 4 years' experience in a NodeJS Back End role; experts in NodeJS, its ecosystem and history and know the ins and outs of using advanced elements of the language and supporting frameworks and libraries.
• Security Check (SC) clearance (commonly required for individuals working with sensitive information).

Desirable:

• Experience with version control systems such at Git.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.