Lead Developer

We are looking for a Lead Developer to join our technical team! We are based in Canterbury and London but support remote working 🌍.

Our teams work with a diverse range of clients, including ITV, the Palaces of the British Royal Household, National Crime Agency, Food Standards Agency, not-for-profits, including the Tony Blair Institute and London Zoo, and event centres such as the Southbank Centre.

We've even done work for the technology giants such as AWS, when they need our very particular set of skills! ☁️

At Deeson you'll get to work with a wide variety of the latest technologies. Recent projects have included developing isomorphic React applications, deployment pipelines to Google Firebase and AWS Lambda, building Dockerised Infrastructure and contributing to Open Source projects.

Your Responsibilities

• Developing innovative, high-quality technical solutions 🖥
• Building relationships with clients and helping them to achieve their goals 🏆
• Plan and drive project delivery in iterative time boxes (sprints) 👟
• Giving back to open source communities 🌍
• Presenting your work internally and to our clients 👏
• Maintaining high-quality technical standards for all the agency's output 👍
• Guiding the team in your area of technical specialism 👩‍🏫

We're looking for senior developers who want to take the next jump in their career and move into a mentoring and leadership position. Your may have had some experience before and are now looking for a supportive environment to guide your journey along this path.

Who we're looking for

• 7 years of commercial experience, including 2 years in a team lead role
• Experience in one or more of our core technologies (Angular, React, Python, Django, Drupal, Node).
• Ability to translate complex client requirements into a deliverable plan.
• Having the interpersonal skills necessary to motivate an Agile cross-disciplinary project team for success.
• A dedication to coding excellence and continuous personal development
• An ability to execute projects across multiple domains (e.g. Javascript application with a Python backend).

Added Bonuses

• Worked with a good range of third party APIs
• Experience working with Javascript frameworks such as React or Angular
• Familiarity with automated deployment systems and test frameworks
• Experience of planning and monitoring software delivery using Jira
• Contributions to, or stewardship of, an open source project
• Presented at tech meet-ups or conferences.

Salary and Benefits

• Flexible working hours (core hours 10am-3pm) 😊
• 35 hour week 👍
• Flexible remote working 🏡
• 24 days holiday + bank holidays 🏖
• Wellness Budget 💚
• Equipment Budget 💻
• Unlimited Training Budget 📚
• Paid conference tickets 🎟
• Charity work and volunteering 🌍

We operate a transparent approach to pay and reward. We do this because we believe that pay-setting and pay progression should be fair, open and based on the impact team members have in our business.

Deeson is part of The Panoply - a group of companies that work collaboratively with clients to solve complex business problems. Our sister agencies include Manifesto, Notbinary and FutureGov.