Associate Developer - 15 Month Fixed-Term

Company Description Working at The Adaptavist Group The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow. We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha! We make change happen. From anywhere. What we offer you We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices. Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS. Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work. Read our full list of benefits Job Description About the role We are seeking a talented software developer to join our Development Services team on an 15-month fixed-term contract to provide cover during a team member’s parental leave. This is a great opportunity to contribute to impactful projects and collaborate with a skilled and supportive team. If you're passionate about building robust software solutions and open to a temporary role where your work will make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. We're an innovative technical team within Adaptavist which focuses on novel and robust business solutions as software that creates new value for clients in a variety of ecosystems such as Atlassian, monday.com Gitlab and AWS. What you'll be doing People Collaboration Collaboration (Slack, email and Jira tickets) with all project team members, which include consultants, developers and project managers Work with the team to ensure our quality practices are adhered to Engineering Designing, writing and testing solutions Complex, collaborative problem solving Performing code peer reviews Writing automated tests at unit, integration and functional levels and drive code quality within the team Troubleshooting builds and deployments Documentation of all technical designs Assisting with support escalation Qualifications What we're looking for Experience in using Java with tools like Junit, Maven, Gradle and mockito to build and test developer tooling, libraries and cloud services is a must Experience using React, Webpack and JavaScript ES2015/16 to build and test applications. Testing frameworks in one or more of: Jest, Enzyme, Karma, Mocha, Sinon, Cypress, JPhantomJS or Jasmine Experience applying static typing in Javascript Experience working on a large codebase/API Creating Automation with Groovy Script / ScriptRunner Experience with HTML5, CSS and front-end best practices Experience in any one database storage technology and languages (e.g. SQL/RDBMS like Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB) Understanding of serverless and micro-services oriented architecture with extensible REST APIs and developing consuming these in Javascript or Java Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems Internal tools and consulting with Jira, Git, Gitlab Serverless/Microservice Architecture Secure cloud native applications deployed in AWS Experience with Atlassian products and APIs such as Jira (especially), Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence. Jira product/APIs Atlassian Connect & Forge Frameworks A few nice to haves Experience with NodeJS Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, AWS lambda, fargate, SNS / SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway and S3) and Docker containers Passion for the latest trends in application design and Interest in learning more about new languages and frameworks Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery and infrastructure as code Additional Information Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! What to expect We have published some support on Interviewing with The Adaptavist Group to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG. You can read them here Equal opportunities for everyone At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us. Check out our WORK180 page Check out our Flexa page We look forward to your application!