Role: Senior Software Engineer - Web (React/Node.js)
Location: London/Newcastle – Hybrid Office & Home
Who Are We?
mkodo builds world class apps, middleware and digital products in the global lottery, betting, and gaming space.
We have an open, supportive, dynamic culture where talented people are trusted to contribute to the team and company by carrying out their roles in a professional, collaborative, and skilled manner. We value the expertise of our team members and offer opportunities for personal development and career progression within the company.
Acquired in February 2020, by Pollard Banknote Limited (PBL), a major supplier to the global lottery industries, brought mkodo strong financial security, access to resources and clients at a global level.
About the role:
Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering, the Senior Web Software Engineer role is a major contributor and influencer on an Engineering team delivering award winning apps and services. Seen as a rock-solid engineer who is a master of their domain, they get a lot done and require very little support beyond high-level direction. They can take a complex user story, break it down into sub-tasks, and complete their sub-tasks with relative ease.
The Senior Web Software Engineer is known outside of their core team as a technology leader. Showing initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves or their teams. They have responsibility for technical projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development.
The Senior Web Software Engineer strives to create solutions that satisfy the trade-offs between technical, analytical and product goals. They can own technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understands the trade-offs in creating good software in their area. Beyond the day-to-day, the Senior Web Software Engineer has an impact beyond themselves and their immediate projects. They help their team of engineers to deliver complex projects and are known for drama-free releases.
This is an important role for the company to ensure that we provide outstanding products to the thousands of customers who use our Apps.
Main responsibilities are:
• Building web applications using NodeJS. React, NextJS and Clean Architecture.
• Implementing secure, scalable, and high-performance APIs and web services using Node.js.
• Developing and maintaining server-side logic using Node.js, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Good understanding of error handling, metrics and logging.
• Delivering features, balancing leadership with individual contribution.
• Responsible for completing complex tasks despite roadblocks, grabbing others for help or insight as necessary.
• Contributes to making others better via Code Reviews, Pair Programming, Coaching, Mentoring and Training.
• A go-to expert in some significant areas of the code base, and not just because they are the only person who has ever worked in that code base.
• Writing consistently high-quality code they are confident will pass QA.
• Breaking down projects into technical milestones to avoid large monolithic deliverables.
• Delivering software on-time and improving the accuracy of their team’s estimations.
• Creating solutions to technical problems, getting buy-in for their solutions and making these solutions come to life.
• Providing technical advice and making decisions that affect the wider team.
• Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem and encourage and enable their team to do the same.
• Understanding a depth of knowledge in systems that enables them to debug those systems effectively without flailing.
• Research and propose new technologies.
• A key contributor and influencer on their team in embedding auditable regulatory compliance measures, such as ISO27001 and PCI Compliance.
• Have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as very detailed understanding of their area.
• Frequently presents at Brown Bag Lunches and Team Meetings.
• Assisting in interviews and recruitment.
• Support mkodo in the implementation and ongoing maintenance of its ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS).
• Adhere to all relevant mkodo ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) policies, procedures and requirements at all times.
• Complete any reasonable tasks relating to the mkodo ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Key Skills & Attributes:
• Significant experience in Web Development.
• Experience in Full Stack development could be beneficial
• Significant experience working with RESTful APIs.
• Significant experience building adaptive UIs for web applications.
• Self-motivated, strong individual contributor.
• Experience coaching and mentoring team members.
• Experience contributing to standards and best practices and embedding them on a team.
• Prioritises tasks using
Location: Tyne and Wear
Posted: Aug. 14, 2024, 8:13 a.m.
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