Full Stack Software Engineer

Job Role: Full Stack Software Engineer
Location: Head Office; Coleshill, Birmingham B46, Remote Role
Salary: Competitive

Benefits: 25 days holiday, Pension, Life Assurance

As part of the Company Life Assurance, our employees are entitled to participate in an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). This is a virtual benefit service which connects our Employees to third party specialists who can help to manage their health and wellbeing and that of their family. In addition to the EAP the service includes:

• Remote access to a UK based GP
• 2nd Opinion consultations
• Mental health assessments and physiotherapy.

Trakm8 is a UK based technology leader in fleet management, insurance telematics, connected car, and optimisation. Through IP owned technology, the Group uses AI data analytics collected from its installed base of telematics units to fine tune the algorithms that are used to produce its' solutions; these monitor driver behaviour, identify crash events, and monitor vehicle health to provide actionable insights to continuously improve the security and operational efficiency of both company fleets and private drivers.

The Group's product portfolio includes the latest data analytics and reporting portal (Trakm8 Insight), integrated telematics/cameras/optimisation, self-installed telematics units and one of the widest ranges of installed telematics devices. Trakm8 has over 255,000 connections.

Headquartered in Coleshill near Birmingham alongside its manufacturing facility, the Group supplies to the Fleet, Optimisation, Insurance and Automotive sectors to many well-known customers in the UK and internationally.

Trakm8 has been listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange since 2005. Trakm8 is also recognised with the LSE Green Economy Mark.

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Established Engineering team.

Main Responsibilities of the role:

• Full lifecycle software development of Trakm8 core products including APIs, event-driven microservices and web portal.
• Regular meetings with peers and senior staff to discuss development progress.
• Research and contribution to help keep our solutions cutting-edge.

Requirements:

• Strong demonstrated experience of back-end development with Node.js and Python.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing secure RESTful APIs.
• Experience in developing services capable of efficiently processing high volumes of events such as event-driven architectures, real-time data processing and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Previous experience in relational database technologies like MySQL.
• Previous experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis and Kafka is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience of front-end development with component-based TypeScript frameworks like Angular.
• A conscientious approach and focus to UI/UX design and best practices.
• Previous experience in developing dynamic single-page applications.
• Proficiency in version control tools like Git and working in CLI contexts.
• Experience with agile development methodologies with tools like Jira.
• Enthusiastic and proactive self-starter with the ability to work alone or within a team environment.

• Formal qualifications in a computer science or engineering subject.
• Excellent technical, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excel in verbal and written communication.

This role requires screening in the below areas:

• 2 years of satisfactory Employment/Education References
• Pre-Employment Credit Check