Developer

Allen Lane is delighted to be supporting the National Lottery Heritage Fund in their search for a Senior Developer to join the organisation on a permanent basis. It's an exciting opportunity to support the improvement of their user-centered digital services including the Front End website and Back End private administrative interfaces. This is a fully remote position but candidates will need to be based in the UK.

The role

As a Senior Developer you will:

• Work alongside the other Senior Developer to make key choices around languages, frameworks and deployment approaches
• Support the delivery and implementation of a replacement grant management system as they move over to a new investment management service.
• Develop software in Ruby on Rails, especially to enable the delivery of a highly usable Investment Management System that will require the integration of Salesforce with numerous other systems, most crucially the website, which you will also have a major role in developing
• Take joint responsibility for technology stack choices, especially languages, frameworks and databases, Secure systems and user data
• Advising other colleagues on technology choices and their implications
• Provide constructive criticism to colleagues to improve everyone's skills and work
• Work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team
• Support and mentor a Junior Developer

Key Skills required

• Working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or OSX, especially making cloud hosted services ready for testing and production deployment
• Working knowledge of database systems
• Building Server Side web applications, with detailed knowledge of at least one open source framework eg Rails, Django, Express
• Front End web development (HTML/CSS/JS) - formal design training not required because you will be working with a UX designer
• Building and using test suites
• Contributing to securing digital systems against hacking and intrusions
• Knowledge of modern version control systems
• Building integrations with 3rd party APIs

What you get in return

A salary of between £55,000 - £65,000 plus London Weighting (if applicable) a range of excellent benefits including the Civil Service Pension scheme, fully remote working, flexible hours and much more