Senior Developer

Job summary

We're looking for an experienced developer to join our inclusive and dedicated engineering team at NICE. We're passionate about meeting user needs whilst building robust and sustainable technology solutions.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Developer you'll take ownership of developing and maintaining the digital services on your multidisciplinary product team. You'll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. You'll have a working level of knowledge of the technology stack across front-end / back-end and may prefer back-end or full-stack development. You'll be familiar with modern frameworks and languages, as well as iterative practices such as test-driven development and regular production deployments. You'll help others through knowledge sharing and take the initiative to get things done.

Our Tech Stack

Our core stack is AWS, React, C#, SQL, ElasticSearch, Git

Contract type: Permanent, full time or part-time (min 22.5 hours per week)

Main duties of the job

Here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) we are passionate about the work we do and proud of the impact we make. We strive for excellence and have an academic culture committed to producing high quality work, which we take collective responsibility for. Not only that, we also put your individual health and wellbeing at the forefront, offering you a great place to work, good benefits, and flexible arrangements, all within a supportive, friendly and inclusive environment.

Main duties of the job

• Build maintainable, secure and performant web applications/API's to serve a variety of user and NICE needs
• Able to lead larger or more complex sets of development tasks, assessing and making decisions on solutions approaches independently
• Take responsibility for delivering high-quality code and robust solutions through test-driven development and iterative practices
• Contribute to team-level technology strategy and roadmap
• Approach all engineering work with security in mind
• Support our live services
• Be a self-directed learner
• Take ownership of work through to completion to meet user needs
• Help colleagues and mentor apprentices and more junior staff members, helping with recruitment
• Work independently with a high level of self-management

About us

The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user-centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams. Together with analytics and insight we develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services. We are playing a key role in the implementation of NICE's digital transformation programme, and also keeping our critical live services running well.

The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF which together attract more than 2 million users a month.

The directorate is also responsible for NICE's internal guidance production systems including content management, authoring, and publishing systems, with a view to generate internal efficiencies and to ensure NICE takes advantage of digital innovations arising across the health and care landscape, such as machine learning and data science. As such DIT has a key role to play in keeping NICE's guidance relevant, high-quality, up-to-date, and accessible.

We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, remote/flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. Our teams work mostly remotely with occasional travel into our Manchester city centre office.