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    Frontend Mid-level Developer, CCID - London, United Kingdom - Nesta

    Nesta
    Nesta London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
    Description

    You will be responsible for:

  • Collaboratively planning development work for internal and partner-led projects
  • Assessing specifications and breaking them down into development epics and development tasks
  • Developing high quality, clear, reusable code in a team environment, through a number of methods:
    Technical design exercisesCollaborative task planningCollaborative task estimationsPeer code reviewsIndividual development tasksPair programming tasksWriting automated testsSupporting manual testing exercisesRegular retrospectives
  • Documentation of the technical aspects of project work as you go
  • Developing rapid prototypes to help test a new concept
  • Assessing existing technologies against project requirements
  • Adapting existing technologies where appropriate
  • Working collaboratively with Nesta's product designers, researchers, data scientists data engineers, and freelance developers where necessary
  • Contributing to the planning of consultancy engagements and activities
  • Connecting into wider networks of collective intelligence technologists and practitioners to keep your finger on the pulse of new applications, methodological advances and identify opportunities for our own experimentation
  • Contributing to the overall direction, and delivery of projects within the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design
  • Assisting and contributing to "all-team" business development activities - helping to win work, and shape the technical components of our proposals, specifications, and new work

    • Experience, Skills and Mindset - essentials:

  • Demonstrable experience as a junior or mid-level developer, with time spent working on front-end software development
  • Demonstrable experience of working with agile project methodologies, and test-driven development
  • Web development experience
  • Experience with React and Typescript
  • Ability to produce rapid prototypes, with a flexible approach towards the choice of appropriate technology, and a willingness to pick up the right tool for the job
  • Excited to learn about new technologies as needed
  • A BSc, or MSc in computer science, engineering, or related discipline; or several years relevant experience in academia or industry demonstrated by a portfolio of projects
  • Excellent time management - able to work on tasks across multiple projects
  • Willing and able to explain complex concepts to less technically experienced members of the team
  • Unafraid to report and help to manage issues as they arise
  • Comfortable giving and receiving kind, constructive feedback
  • A collaborative person with a curious and open mindset, a willingness to learn from and with others, and ability to carry out self-directed research and learning
  • A motivation to tackle social problems, and a personal commitment to the principles of data justice and community empowerment
  • A supportive colleague

    • Experience, Skills and Mindset - desirable:

  • Conversant in backend development and technologies
    Eg. cloud computing - AWS / Azure / GCPEg. relational and other types of databasesEg. uses of CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous deployment) pipelinesEg. the uses for serverless / microservice / monolith architecturesEg. containerisation (such as Docker)
  • Knowledge of one or more of the following:
    Machine learning tools and techniquesData visualisation librariesAPI / web service development and consumption
  • Examples demonstrating a strong interest in technology, experimentation with technologies, or coding for fun

    • What we offer

    Salary: circa £48,000 plus array of benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, the ability to buy and sell annual leave, eyecare vouchers and more .

    Location : This role is based in London, Blackfriars, hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of two days in the office

    Term : Permanent

    Hours: This is a full-time role but we offer a range of flexible working arrangements and encourage our people to take advantage of them. Many do.

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