Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer

Salary: £37,000 - £45,000 (based on experience)
Location: Fully remote (UK-based) with occasional travel
Contract: Fixed-term until 31st March 2025, with possible extension
Hours: 35 hours per week

About the Role:
We are seeking a Full Stack Developer to enhance and maintain a key biodiversity data platform in the UK. The role involves improving internal applications, coding, and collaborating with a small, remote team. Key skills include OOP, MVC frameworks, REST web services, and JavaScript.

Requirements:

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and on complex projects
• You’ll need extensive experience in full stack coding skills and be happy to get stuck in doing a bit of everything (polyglot style), with experience as follows:

-Object Oriented Programming
-MVC frameworks (ideally Jakarta EE/Spring/Grails but would consider .NET/ Django)
-Rest Web Services
-ORM such as Hibernate
-Working knowledge of Linux
-MySQL or PostgreSQL
-JavaScript, jQuery, CSS

Key Responsibilities:

• Implementing enhancements and project work, associated websites, and API. The work to be undertaken includes the development of new or improved functionality to meet the needs of data managers and a wide variety of external stakeholders, together with front-end enhancements to improve the user experience. Working with colleagues to understand the scope of the work and for testing and deployment.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive and accurate documentation.
• Participating in work planning and management meetings with the Lead Developer and other colleagues as applicable and keeping work planning tools (e.g. Jira) complete and up to date.
• Contributing to the identification and solution of issues, and the continuous improvement of the application, associated websites and API.
• Representing the Developer team at internal meetings as appropriate, updating colleagues on work priorities, progress and change.
• Participating in team-wide meetings and activities, including staff meetings.

Benefits:

• Flexible, remote working
• 28 days of leave per year, plus UK bank holidays
• Pension plan contributions up to 7%
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on nature conservation

Applicants must be UK-based and eligible to work in the UK. 

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.