Freelance Senior iOS Engineer, Red Badger
6 Months +
1-2 days a week in office
Digital product transformation consultancy
Job no longer available
Digital product transformation consultancy
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Red Badger's mission is to turn the traditional consulting model on its head: no sales team; no RFP processes, just great people doing great work with a focus on quality.
Role
Who you are
- You will be a polyglot with extensive experience across a wide range of technologies and projects and will relish tackling and solving tough problems, digging deeper into areas you already know as well as expanding your skills into different languages, technologies and practices
- Frontend web technologies (e.g. Javascript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
- Frontend web frameworks (e.g. React, VueJS, etc.)
- Backend technologies (e.g. Node.js, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Relational and Non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS…)
- Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
- CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
- Effective source-control management using Git
- Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
- Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
- Collaborating in cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (i.e. Relay, GraphQL, Apollo, etc.)
- Design, build, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud based architectures following Everything-as-Code principles
- Design an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally and continuously
- Support a highly-available live production system, respond to alerts, diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling, triage and resolve incidents
What the job involves
- You’ll be comfortable designing and articulating solutions, working closely with clients to ensure we’re delivering the right thing in the right way. You will lead by example; getting your hands dirty in the code, inspiring your peers & educating our clients
- You will lead by example; getting your hands dirty in the code, inspiring your peers & educating our clients
- As well as contributing to production-grade code bases, you will also be proactive in working directly with the client to help shape and move the project forward and, where required, helping to up-skill and embed good development practices within existing, newly formed or client/Badger blended cross-functional teams
- Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
- Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
- Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
- Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
- Starting or continuing your journey as a line-manager
- Coach & support peers
- Providing support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)
- Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers and QAs
- Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end, working with agile principles
- Leading and supporting your peers in technical decisions
- Be an advocate for lean software development, building for what is required now
- Help break large deliverables into small, lean incremental user stories
- Actively contribute to agile ceremonies
- Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward, including giving updates on the delivery progress and highlighting potential technical blockers
- Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary
Application process
- 19th June start date
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Red Badger is a digital transformation company that provides clients with assistance in digital product development, product strategy, design and management as well as data strategy and insights. It aims to revolutionise the traditional consultancy model by its focus on the quality of its talent, without RFP processes or aggressive sales teams.
At a time when many businesses are losing trust in digital consulting firms which promise outsized results and fail to deliver, Red Badger stands by its expertise in blue chip companies and its collaborative and results-driven (rather than sales-driven) working style. This is an approach which has been successfully maintained as it has grown.
Red Badger's clients have included businesses such as Santander, HSBC, Nandos, Fortnum & Mason, Fidelity, News UK and London Metal Exchange. As the business continues to grow with a stand-out position in the market, it looks set to multiply future revenues by driving new demand and expanding its reach.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Enhanced sick pay
- Private medical cover provided by Vitality
- Cycle to work scheme, bike storage and shower facilities
- Ad-hoc yoga and other classes
- Confidential legal advice and counselling through our Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in service & critical illness cover
- 5% pension match after probation
- Generous referral bonus scheme
- 24 holidays per year, which incrementally increases to 28 days after six years service (excl. bank holidays)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Wellbeing programmes and talks
- Socials & bi-annual party
- Annual training budget of £2,000
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Cain Ullah
(Co-founder & Board Member)Worked as a Consultant for over 8 years at DST International and EMC Consulting. Currently works in advisory roles at SoDA, Positive Transformation Initiative, and 20-first alongside Red Badger.
Stuart Harris
(Co-founder)Worked for over 6 years as a Consultant at Data General. Held roles at EMC, M&C Saatchi, Transport for London, and London Underground. Left his position as Senior Technical Consultant at Conchango in May 2010 to co-found Red Badger.
David Wynne
(Co-founder & CEO)Previously Technical Lead at Avis Europe, Senior System Architect at Reach, and Technical Consultant for EMC Consulting.
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