Lead Developer

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,585 to £54,395 with potential progression once in post to £61,198

Closes: 18th October 2023

Role Summary

An exciting opportunity for a Lead Developer to join a product team at the University of Birmingham. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and support of products which unify students’ digital experience, and will lead on technical strategy and decisions for a product team.

This is a lead technical role suiting someone with previous experience of building a solution that delivers an excellent customer experience, such as an app that unifies and seamlessly presents the outputs of various core systems. As part of this, you will have extensive knowledge of at least one area of the solution’s architecture, such as front-end web and mobile technologies, front-end design, back-end cloud engineering and API gateways. Based on students’ engagement patterns, you will work to the principle of ‘mobile first' and will have experience of cross-platform development. Experience of working in a product or agile team is also desirable. We are looking for a driven team player who is continually learning and comfortable providing technical vision, leadership and mentoring to other developers in the team.

Day to day you will be working within a team of developers. You will work closely with the team’s product owner and stakeholders to deliver new features and services as well as supporting the day-to-day operations of the student app.

Person Specification

Requirements:

Meaningful and relevant experience in the below areas and of developing solutions that deliver an excellent user experience, with significant expertise in at least one element of their architecture. This could include an in-depth knowledge of back-end technologies or of suitable front-end web and mobile technologies. 

This role would suit a Full Stack Developer looking to lead a small team on technical strategy and shape the team’s software development practices and processes.

• Cloud experience (Azure preferred). 
• Experience of mobile first development and cross-platform development
• A Mobile First approach to programming
• Experience with object-oriented Programming Languages e.g. Python, C# 
• Experience of leading on the design and implementation of technical solutions
• Experience of leading and coaching developers in an agile or product team
• Experience using source control and knowledge of Git 
• Experience with Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) processes 
• Experience in writing and applying automated tests
• Knowledge of Browserstack or similar test platforms
• Experience of working with end users
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analysis and troubleshooting skills
• A continuous improvement mentality

  Advantageous:

• Terraform.
• Github Actions experience
• Experience with Jira
• Azure developer certification
• Experience with Dart language and the Flutter Platform
• Knowledge of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design  

Informal enquires to Natalie Gibbons, email: n.gibbons@bham.ac.uk

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