Senior Developer, BorrowMyDoggy

• The ideal applicant will have extensive (5+ years) hands-on technical experience working as a senior or lead developer, ranging from customer-facing front-end systems - both web and mobile - through to back-end architecture
• You will understand the importance of asynchronous approaches when scaling service-based architecture, and the places where automation is required
• An appreciation of the need to plan system cutovers, to mitigate risks, and to reduce complexity, will be key
• You’ll need to have relevant professional experience working with the following:
• Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS, React Native, Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, AWS, test automation (TDD, BDD, etc.), and DevOps practices generally (CI, CD, etc.)

Desirable

• BorrowMyDoggy is looking for a well-rounded and experienced Senior Developer to work on all technical areas of the business
• This is a hands-on role, involving both day-to-day development work and longer-term strategic planning
• Shaping the company’s technical strategy at all levels, from detailed code library choices to large-scale vendor and technology selection
• Functional development of the product platform, in response to business requirements
• Ongoing refinement and improvement of all technical systems and processes
• Routine maintenance and operational support of production and test environments
• Issue triage, investigation and resolution planning
• Serving the needs of the business by designing for scalability, reliability, and budgetary requirements
• Maintaining and influencing the security of BorrowMyDoggy’s systems and processes, performing audits of public-facing services, and following advisories and industry developments where appropriate
• Designing, building and maintaining integrations with third-party systems
• An ongoing programme of legacy system modernisation and replacement