United Kingdom onlyTarget Group are a leading business services provider in lending, investments and insurance, creating value for our clients through digital customer journey, outsourcing and operational transformation.
As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will be focused on building software solutions based upon user stories and functional designs. You will work across a breadth of technologies and contribute to the adoption of new solutions.
You will have strong foundational experienced in the technologies used in this field, but most importantly you will relish picking up new frameworks and methods as the work evolves. You can work as part of an agile self-managing team.
The team works in an agile framework however Target has clients with fixed deadlines and budgets that we still need to achieve.
This is a fast-paced team, with a new product to complete and launch. It is a very exciting time in Target with lots of modernisation, new technologies and new clients.
Main day to-day responsibilities include:
- Builds solutions, creates features and deliverables according to user stories or technical designs
- Creates and amends programs in accordance with the design.
- Provide support for existing systems, carrying out investigative work and performing software changes to resolve issues.
- Plan, design and conduct tests of programs; correct errors and re-test to achieve an error free result.
- Execute and document all work in accordance with agreed standards.
- Take part in continual improvement discussions to consider better ways of achieving solutions or conducting processes.
- Support change brought about through Software Engineering activities, showing understanding, imagination and creativity.
- Provides support to our offshore team to provide clarity of what is required for assigned tasks and removes blockers.
- Identify and solve customer problems within the time allocated.
- Estimate and plan work and advise manager of progress against activities and highlight issues
Requirements
We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer with at least 2 years experience of Java Software Development, with experience using the following technologies and test tools:
- React or Angular
- Spring Core / Boot or a similar framework
- REST API design
- Postgres or similar relational DBs
- Typescript
- React or a similar framework
- Unit testing, ideally Junit5 / Mockito (Java), React Testing Library (JavaScript)
The right candidate will ideally have experience working in the Financial Services industry (Fintech is a bonus!) and will also:
- Have the ability to contribute to tech decisions, design and prioritising roadmap for technical debt
- Be an excellent communicator
- Be self-organised, can pick up things without a lot of support
- Collaboratively and proactively share knowledge
- Strives to achieve milestones and deadlines
- Implements solutions to mitigate risk
- Proactively raises any perceived risks with the Delivery/Project Manager so they can be recorded and mitigated
- Owns on tasks through to completion
- Implements innovative value-adding ideas
- Champions change and shows determination to overcome obstacles
- Delivers exceptional quality
Benefits
In addition to your basic salary (starting from £45,000, depending on experience), we offer a comprehensive, flexible and market-competitive benefits package. Our flexible benefits package allows you to choose the benefits that best suit your lifestyle.
Core Benefits
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Annual Pay Review
- Discretionary Company Performance Bonus
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
- Free Flu Vaccinations, Eye Tests and employer contribution towards glasses
- My Recognition
- Confidential access to health and wellbeing support
- 4 x Salary Life Insurance
Our flexible benefits scheme gives employees access to additional benefits to supplement their core package:
- Pension Contribution – Salary Sacrifice
- Cycle2Work
- Critical Illness Cover + Dental Insurance
- Gym Flex
- Hello Fresh / Taste Card / Gourmet Card
- RAC Breakdown Cover
- Charitable Payroll Giving
- Buy / Sell holiday
- Technology loans
We’re committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders.
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