Software Engineer

Job Description:

Vacancy Name Software Engineer

Vacancy No VN345

Employment Type Full Time

Salary Range between £30,000 and £40,000 per annum DOE

Work Location Chester

Role Profile Sykes Cottages are now seeking our newest Software Engineer to join our award-winning Product department at our Chester head office.

At Sykes we are passionate about technology, it’s at the heart of everything we do. We’re eager to experiment with new technology and because of this we are leveraging technologies such as Elasticsearch, Docker, and React Native in production. We are now seeking our latest passionate and innovative Software Engineer to implement technical solutions that fulfill the commercial ambitions of the business. You will be working with our bespoke property management platform, which enables us to onboard, support and maintain the holiday cottages in our portfolio, as well as new platforms that we create to meet the dynamic needs of the market.

You will be working in a team of 3 developers, reporting to a Lead Software Engineer. You will also be collaborating with a wider technology team of more than thirty talented colleagues including Business Analysts, Test Engineers, Business Intelligence developers, as well as stakeholders outside of the department, to deliver robust, commercially substantial projects.

At Sykes we are passionate about technology, it’s at the heart of everything we do. We’re eager to experiment with new technology and because of this we are leveraging technologies such as Elasticsearch, Docker, and React Native in production.

As our newest Software Engineer, you will hold the following key skills:

Essential Experience

• At least 2 years development experience in a commercial setting

• Experience of PHP MVC frameworks such as Laravel

• Object Oriented Code and using SOLID principles

• A strong grasp of basic MySQL (Joins, Groups)

• Experience of foundational front end technology e.g Javascript, HTML, CSS

• Experience of Agile development methodologies e.g. Scrum

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to Continuous Delivery & Integration

• Experience of Test Driven Development

• Experience of a Javascript frameworks such as AngularJS, ReactJS or React Native

• Front end styling frameworks such as SASS & Bootstrap

• Experience with ElasticSearch

• UNIX Command line

• Experience with Amazon Web Services

• An understanding of microservice architectures and experience with REST APIs

• Docker containers

Key Responsibilities

As our newest Software Engineer, you will be accountable for the following areas of responsibility:

• Create well crafted, scalable and resilient solutions used both by colleagues and the public.

• Own the delivery of software into the business.

• Participate in sprint planning to deliver regular iterations, and retrospectives to improve our processes.

• Promote software development best practices.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and taking corrective action for issues in production.

• Perform exploratory work to investigate new technologies that we can leverage to solve business problems, as well as well as sizing changes to our existing platform.

• Reviewing colleagues’ code submissions, coaching enhancements, encouraging standards and identifying bugs.

Hybrid Working: Sykes Cottages are proud to support hybrid-working across the business with a mixture or remote and office working available and will be discussed at interview