Senior Developer

• Provide technical leadership for a team of developers - offering guidance on best practice, mentoring/coaching, improving team delivery

• Work alongside the Team Leader on agreed projects to support the team's roadmap - identifying and mitigating items that may impact the team's delivery

• Coordinate closely with Architecture to ensure high quality solutions are delivered following agreed processes

• Own technical work streams - delivering at pace, researching and solving complex problems

• Identify and drive opportunities outside of the immediate team - advise, or share best practice; Influence departmental strategy; improve delivery

• Successfully develop, deliver and maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)

• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable

• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle

• Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code

• Investigate and resolve defects/bugs found in pre-production or production environments

• Be an active and enthusiastic team player, working effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments

• Be committed to team success and positive team dynamics

• Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results

• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services

• Update job knowledge by studying current development tools & techniques

Do you want to work at the leading edge of JavaScript technologies? Do you have the drive to build great products for a world class organisation? Were looking for a Senior Engineer with JavaScript and React skills to help deliver the roadmap for Sage Accounting

You will be working within an international team of around 7-8 developers and 3-4 QA, on new and existing customer facing products, utilising Sage's open source library of React components - Carbon

This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle office.

What we're looking for:

• Excellent commercial JavaScript experience

• Excellent commercial React experience

• A good understanding of testing web applications - knowledge of Jest would be advantageous

• An understanding of Typescript

• An understanding of state management

• A great team player, communicator and collaborator - as well as your own contributions to the codebase, we encourage engineers to support more junior colleagues within the team

• Experience with Agile Development and SCRUM, * React

• Typescript, CSS-in-JS and state management

• Unit testing web applications e.g, Jest or React Testing Library

• Storybook and Playwright

• Object-oriented programming, enough to write and review code and documentation.

• Ability to interpret user requirements and translate these into technical specifications leading the technical solution

• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills

• Mentoring and coaching skills

• Service-oriented architecture experience

• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment

• Team player and collaborator

• Best coding principles

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving expertise.

Preferred:

• Ruby on Rails

• React Query

• Experience of Accessibility and coding for responsive design (mobile first)

• Innovative and creative thinking

• Customer focus