Senior Software Engineer

Reach beyond with Liberty IT; for this is where you’ll find the super challenges, where you’ll be given the scope and the support to go further, dig deeper and fly higher.    

We won’t stand over your shoulder. We won’t get in your way. We certainly won’t hold you back. You’ll bring the expertise. We’ll provide the platform to succeed.   

Ready?    

It’s time to do your thing.    

This role is for the Liberty Employee Assistant team who are working on Liberty’s internal dashboard that we are replacing with a large language model based chatbot. 

Experience and skills we need:    

• Experience in creating solutions and services using Typescript, Node.js, AWS as well as React 

• A third level qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science or STEM subject and 3 years’ software development experience in a commercial environment; or current and valid industry recognised certifications and 5 years’ software development experience in a commercial environment    

• Have worked with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, or similar, for deployment purposes   

• Feature or function design and delivery as part of an agile software development team (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.).    

• Have worked with Product Owners, customers, end-users, or stakeholders in the delivery of software, solutions, or products.   

 Experience and skills we’d love:    

We’ve included some further skills and experience that would be great. However, don’t rule yourself out if you haven’t had the opportunity to develop these yet, we have a learning culture at Liberty IT so we will support your career growth with us.   

• Experienced in innovation work and in integrating emerging technologies and tools as part of the Software Delivery Lifecycle 

• Backend is primarily serverless (API Gateway + Lambda) so exposure to those would be highly beneficial   

What you’ll be doing:    

• Be part of a team who are working to solve complex business problems by delivering high-quality software that provides an outstanding experience for our customers.    

• With the support of more senior team members, contribute to the architecture or design in your area of work.   

• Write clean code in line with the team’s set standards.  Look for ways to improve your team’s coding standards.   

• Own, scope and deliver well defined deliverables or stories. Communicate and update your progress regularly at stand-ups or similar agile events.    

• Mentor and guide more junior team members to deliver well defined features, functions or components.   

• Collaborate closely and cooperatively with your technical and non-technical teams to work towards the best solution that maximises value to the customer.    

• Contribute to a culture of code quality and implement automated, unit and integration testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Apply good security processes such as threat modelling to the code you develop.     

• Implement your team’s approach to delivering high quality, tested code. Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines. Play a lead role in code reviews and actively review pull requests from other team members.    

• Grow your knowledge of architecture, modern engineering principles and design patterns.    

• Assess the business value of new technologies and technical solutions using a data-driven approach and implement them to the development life cycle.    

• Supported by senior team members, seek opportunities to share and celebrate what you’ve learned through internal tech talks, blogging and external events.