Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Introduction

As a Senior Full Stack Developer within the Asset and Offerings Incubation (AOI) Team, you will create technical assets that can accelerate digital adoption for government clients.

Joining a new team at TBI consisting of developers, designers, architects and researchers, giving you the opportunity to help shape our culture, practices, and the way that we engage with our clients.

The team will employ agile best practices to rapidly build MVP’s that address a particular user need. Depending on the project, you may need to create a new asset from scratch, enhance an existing solution, or integrate existing components into a new solution.

The ideal candidate will have experience across a wide range of technologies and have been responsible for end-to-end delivery of successful digital experiences. It is essential you are used to working directly with customers (either internal or external) and designers in an agile fashion, ensuring that technical implementation aligns with end user needs.

The role may involve mentoring, teaching and pair programming with developers from partner organisations who are co-developing assets or providing components of a solution.

The AOI team is part of the Global Innovation Unit within TBI’s Strategy and Partnership Division.

Key Responsibilities

Tasks will include but are not limited to:

• Develop and deploy scalable, high-quality web-based and mobile applications
• Write clean, modular, and testable code
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, MVP definition, development, testing, and deployment
• Employ best practices around Test-Driven Development, CI/CD and agile delivery
• Collaborate effectively with architects on system design
• Engage in pair programming with other developers from TBI or partners, and share knowledge of technologies and agile methodologies
• Support agile delivery ceremonies included in day-to-day engagement execution including stand-ups and playbacks
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes

Person Specification

This post would be a fit for a Developer with broad experience in agile software development, cloud computing and innovation. This post should have these skills and experience:

• Broad and comprehensive experience developing digital solutions
• Experience deploying software to a cloud platform and using cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Proficient in modern web development technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and at least one popular web framework (such as React, Angular or Vue.js)
• Experience with mobile development (native or hybrid, e.g., React Native, Cordova) is a plus
• Experience working as part of an agile team
• Ability to build solutions that implement security best practices and good performance
• Familiarity with multiple backend programming languages and use of databases
• Ability to learn on the job and rapidly pick up new technologies
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Familiarity with using Open source Software and Libraries
• The ability to operate in rapidly changing and growth business environment
• Background of delivering digital solutions with a positive impact and measurable outcomes
• A proven self-starter and is entrepreneurial in spirit
• Fluency in English
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree or equivalent practical experience
• Previous experience working with government clients is a plus, but not required
• Keenly interested in the work of TBI and share in our mission and values

Please submit your application asap, interviews will be taking place from Monday 6^th February 2023
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About The Institute

The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) is a mission-driven not for profit organisation. We exist to equip political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive and prosperous societies. We work hard, every day, to make a difference. When governments work well they are able to create economic and social change in a way that promotes fairness, social justice and opportunity. We work relentlessly to support leader and governments with the challenges they face. Giving them practical solutions and actionable insights, that once implemented, can be transformative for their people  

We do this within two connected divisions: 

 Government Advisory 

Our Government Advisory teams work directly with political leaders and governments around the world to implement reforms that improve the lives of their citizens. It works with a variety of partners and its outputs cover a range of disciplines and projects across countries in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South Asia.

 Policy Futures 

Our Policy Futures work encompasses three broad areas: 

• Renewing the Centre: developing a bold and innovative domestic policy programme to help renew the centre ground of British politics; 
• Tech and Public Policy: exploring the policy challenges and opportunities presented by the technological revolution; and 
• Extremism Policy Unit: creating solutions designed to tackle the threat of extremist ideologies in the UK and around the world. 

As an organisation, the core beliefs we all embrace are: 

• Open and Progressive: you’ll believe in the value of teamwork 
• Bold and Pragmatic: you’ll approach everything you do with integrity and authenticity 
• Optimistic Changemaker: you’ll be focused on results 

TBI believes embracing diversity and inclusion make us a better place to work.  It’s our goal to reflect everyone in society and we actively welcome applications from individuals and groups who are under-represented in the workplace. We celebrate difference be it ethnicity, religion, age, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. We will only ever assess you on your abilities and fit for a role. We’re happy to discuss any adjustments you need to ensure a level playing field during recruitment and, if you\'re successful, discuss any adjustments you might need to thrive in your role.