Lead Web Developer

Lead Web Developer (Higher Education)

• £40,000 - £46,000
• Excellent Pension Scheme
• 34 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working with genuine flexibility

The Warwick Employment Group (WEG), a commercial and recruitment department of the University of Warwick, are currently seeking an experienced Web Developer to join their internal Software Development team. This is an exciting opportunity for developers with a strong background in building modern, web-based applications and services who are eager to contribute to a brand-new project tackling interesting and ambitious technical challenges.

This is an opportunity to Join the group at an early stage of development and play a key role in shaping the platform from the ground up. You will be working alongside a collaborative team of developers who care about building well-designed software and solving real problems.

We are particularly interested in developers who:

• Enjoy solving interesting technical challenges
• Take pride in writing clean, well-structured, maintainable code
• Like contributing ideas and shaping technical direction
• Value collaboration and thoughtful engineering

Duties Will Include:

• Design and develop new web solutions as directed by management and from the WEG roadmap e.g. new tools and new products.
• Managing the implementation of web development projects, including liaising with our hosting partners.
• Propose architectural designs and solutions to ensure systems remain relevant, reliable and performant in the future.
• Present Designs to internal and external stakeholders as appropriate for review.
• Collaboration with Lead Developers to ensure consistency across WEG’s various applications.
• Provide recommendations for enhancements to WEG services which would benefit users and keeping up to date with technological advances.
• Regular code reviews of other team members to ensure style, content and quality remain of a suitable standard.
• Maintain user friendly websites and web services, ensuring the sites are accessible, optimised and have short download times. This involves making sure the services main functions are prioritised develop new internal operating processes to improve working practices.
• Ensure consistent and accurate application of estimation methodologies to planned work.
• Improve existing pages and forms to ensure usability and to meet customer expectations and technological advances.
• Development and maintenance of internal systems.
• Investigate problems and issues with the services and identify whether issue is internal or external.
• Support and mentor junior members of the team.

Skills and Experience

• Degree in IT or Software related subjects, such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Agile qualifications would be beneficial
• Experience of developing in an Agile environment, e.g. scrum
• Use of relevant technologies, e.g. SQL Server/MariaDB, C#, etc.
• Development experience in C# and Angular
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience of SQL and RDBMS, and web interfaces to databases and business systems
• Experience of Jboss / Apache / IIS
• Knowledge of Windows and Solaris or a similar Unix-like operating system
• Knowledge of architectural design methodologies and dependencies
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This is a great opportunity to join an established commercial group within the university, with national and international coverage from its well known HE biased International Job Board, Franchise Brands across 20 UK Universities and Specialist Recruitment Divisions.

WEGTech is part of Warwick Employment Group and is acting an internal recruiter for this vacancy.