Job Description
Beat the tech redundancy doom and gloom with a software development brand that's so in demand they are opening a 2nd office in London. You can work from home and come and see us for meet-ups or from one our offices in Cornwall or London. You choose. You can also join us on a part-time basis if you need to arrange work around your lifestyle or family commitments. We're totally flexible and wherever or however you join us you'll be looked after :) We're Thought Quarter, a mission-led digital products consultancy, and we'd love to chat. Oh… probably a good time to mention that over the next 3 years we plan to become employee owned. This means you will own part of the business. Remote Working Set-Up: London, Home Counties, South East, South West or Cornwall + Monthly meet-ups in London or Cornwall Role Info: Remote Full Stack Software Developer London or Cornwall Monthly Meet-ups £35,000 – £55,000 + Benefits Plus Impressive Perks Package & Well-being Support + Career Development Opportunities Full or Part Time Considered Product / Service: Consultancy-led software development agency. We build digital products, bespoke websites, e-commerce stores and much more! Pedigree: Awarded Silver in Best New Business – Cornwall Business Awards. Best Place to Work in the Cornwall Business Awards Finalist Culture: Clarity, Curiosity, Confidence Your Skills & Experience: Agency or inhouse background. CMS: Umbraco, C# .Net, PHP, Laravel, Joomla, Drupal. ** All skills welcomed ** Who we are: At Thought Quarter we work with ambitious organisations to quickly uncover the real challenge and put together ROI-positive, effective ways of delivering change. Typically, our clients have bold leaders with a clear strategy and they need a long-term partner to help them deliver it. Our formula is simple – discover, do, improve. We work across consultancy, software engineering, digital experience, and ongoing support to put together the perfect package to support our client's journey. Thanks to our work, our clients can launch campaigns in minutes, optimise customer journeys, reduce operating costs, and deliver content to millions of users. Some highlights for us include: + Creating a new feature for a top consumer app which supports 1.4m users every day + Designing a high-availability online store and order processing platform which processes around 40,000 orders each week + Supporting a major financial services organisation transform how they deliver change inside their business The Full Stack Software Developer role: Becoming part of our delivery team, you will be responsible for implementing features for new and existing projects. You will get involved with greenfield projects and updating existing ones in a variety of languages and frameworks. This role is all about working smarter rather than harder so we can surprise and delight our clients. So, you will be expected to help us find the most rapid and appropriate way to build complex features, and then deliver high-quality, defect-free code in line with your estimates. When you're on tools, you'll be: + Supporting the Project Lead to specify work and accurately estimate it + Completing work assigned to you on time, on-spec, and free from defects + Building responsive, performant, and standards-compliant web pages and components using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and relevant libraries and framework + Writing clean, testable, and well-documented back- and front-end code + Configuring and maintaining deployment pipelines + Occasionally troubleshooting live systems + Actively participating in sprint ceremonies including daily stand-ups and fortnightly retrospectives A little bit about you: Ideally, you will have been working in a similar role in an agency or similar environment. You will also have: + Experience building bespoke websites (not from themes) with 1 or more modern CMS platforms (ideally Umbraco) + Experience of implementing accessible, flexible and technically sound responsive CSS layouts from designs and style guides using well-known CSS frameworks + Experience of writing back-end code in C# (essential), JavaScript, PHP, and/or similar languages + Experience of working with at least 1 and preferably more databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and SQL Server + Experience of working with 1 or more front end JavaScript frameworks + Experience of working collaboratively with a Project Manager and other developers to ensure deadlines are met and unexpected issues are tackled quickly and effectively + A professional, completer-finisher mindset that allows you to progress work effectively + Great attention to detail + The ability to think analytically and break complex problems down into simpler, interconnected steps. Progression Opportunities: As you develop in the role, you will take a more active role in solution architecture and our overall tech stack choices. If progression is your thing, over the next 2-3 years you will have the opportunity to choose the direction you would like to develop your career in – it could be as a Senior Developer, or as a Project Lead, or as Lead Developer, or something else completely. To help you get there, you will have the support of an experienced Non-Executive Director with extensive agency experience and whatever training is needed. Working arrangements: Our teams work from the office when required, although you're welcome to use the office as much as you like. We're open to full- or part-time candidates, and we're especially keen to hear from anyone looking to return to work after parental leave or a career break. What's in it for you? We believe that technology should create life-changing opportunities for our team, not just for our clients. That's why we spend over 60% of our revenue on looking after our people. Here are some of the benefits our team enjoy: + 30 days' holiday + Paid sick leave + Paid parental leave + Private medical cover + Access to a huge range of discounts from high-street and online brands + A £300 training budget to spend on anything you like, work related or not – we just want to help you be your best self! + A fair, competitive salary that is reviewed by the board of directors every single month + Autonomy to choose where and when you work, subject to some ground rules + A monthly team social, plus a summer party for staff and families Interested? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Director of People and Culture Your Background / Previous Roles May Include: Developer, Full Stack Developer, Mid Weight Developer, Programmer, Web Applications Developer, Umbraco, Full Stack C# Developer, Software Developer, .Net Developer, Web Developer, CMS Developer. Application notice… We take your privacy seriously. When you apply, we shall process your details and pass your application to our client for review for this vacancy only. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to our Data Privacy Policy & Notice on our website for further details. If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.