AddressSenior Full Stack Developer
Country: United Kingdom
Position Location: Croydon, UK / Birmingham, UK
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: Transport
Discipline: Digital design
Job Ref: 1372
Recruiter Contact: Matthew Rayburn
Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.
Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the business unit
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.
We are looking for aSenior Full Stack Developerto join our enthusiastic, ambitious and growing Information Management team.
You will be part of our Information Management network responsible for implementing the latest digital design delivery methods and improved ways of working across our major infrastructure projects. Our team works with a range of major project clients, predominantly in the transportation sector in the UK and North America. Our focus is in the development of innovative digital project solutions to drive efficiency improvements during the delivery of our built environment projects.
This is an opportunity to apply and further hone your development skills within the civil engineering sector, actively working on solutions that help our clients in achieving their objectives towards Net Zero. You’ll work as part of a highly successful and innovative team, helping to advise our infrastructure-owning clients in the delivery of their civil engineering assets, predominantly in transportation systems, from railways and roads to bridges and tunnels.
It’s an opportunity to be creative in developing information and technology-based solutions to real-world problems, obtaining, organising and extracting value from data, and using the resulting information to help our clients make good decisions. To do this you’ll be responsible for leading our team of digital consultants to develop and deliver these solutions and make a positive contribution to the safety, performance and sustainability of our clients’ infrastructure, for the benefit of society.
Responsibilities:
- Leading the development of responsive and scalable high-quality software using agile methodologies
- Architecting web applications, reviewing design and coding standards
- Providing estimates and delivering to agreed timeframes
- Leading a team to help define and develop approaches to getting value from data and working independently on specific analysis tasks.
- Keeping up to date with technology and best practices in web development and share knowledge with wider teams
- Cleaning, structuring and querying asset data, building and using tools for analysis, identifying patterns and trends.
- Researching and evaluating the potential application of new and emerging technologies for infrastructure data capture and analysis.
- Helping to create decision support tools that combine, contextualize, and create value from collected data.
- Communicating findings to both technical and non-technical people, verbally, statistically, in writing, through visualizations and presentations.
Our ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering and a wealth of experience in a similar role in web-based software development. Experience or understanding of the architectural, engineering and construction industry will be beneficial.
You will lead a specialist team in developing solutions by producing high quality code in an agile environment. You will need to have primarily Python and React with SQL experience and enthusiasm to dive into different technologies with a ‘can do’ attitude.
Due to this role being a lead role within the team, we’re looking for someone who has extensive Full Stack experience, and a previous history of management / mentorship within this remit.
Essential
- Python
- React, TypeScript, JavaScript
- MS SQL and NoSQL databases, MongoDB
- API design for streaming data
- Azure services
- Agile delivery methodology
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Team leadership and effective communication skills
Desirable
- NET / C#
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Vulnerability management
- Git command and team workflows
- Understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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