Software Engineer (Git & AWS) - 6 month contract

Start date - 7th August
Location TBD (Newcastle, Leeds or Manchester) - weekly travel
Inside IR35

Front end: Must be WCAG2.2 AAA compliant (accessible).
Backend: Mix of microservices, lambda functions, and (Kafka) events. Some ETL and interaction with RPA. Likely to use microsites and/or UI fragments. Responsibilities:

• Set and enforce code quality standards (e.g. SonarQube unit test coverage%)
• Elaborate, estimate and size components (e.g. story point / man-day a microservice or UI feature)
• Break down requirements into discrete development items for the team
• Guide other scrum team resources to complete assigned activities within the sprint
• Report back updates and represent the scrum team in various agile ceremonies and reporting forums
• Create and document development approach
• Develop assigned user stories in a variety of languages and undertake unit testing against this development
• Develop against code quality standards
• Create, edit and manage front end components and back end microservices
• Operate as part of an Agile squad in a sprint methodology, alongside Business Analysts, DevOps and Quality Assurance

REQUIRED/NON-NEGOTIABLE: Git, AWS stack
Role based: e.g. SQS, SNS, Lambda, Microservices, React and/or Node JS
NICE TO HAVE: Event-based architectures, SonarQube, Redis, DocumentDB, public sector experience