Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for an expert level programmer with strong fundamentals in computer science and problem-solving skills - ideally someone with a 1st class bachelors degree in Computer Science.

To join a team of senior level engineers, reporting to the CTO, collectively managing a team of approximately 30 developers working on enhancements to our core platform HUBX, a mature multi-tenant SaaS platform built in Vue.js and PHP Symfony. We are currently reviewing the go-forward technology stack.

The ideal candidate will be very familiar with a software development lifecycle that uses sophisticated GIT based branching models with continuous integration and deployment in AWS. Writing clean, elegant, scalable, robust, well-tested, bug-free code will be a passion in the person we are looking for and they should expect to show leadership to more junior team members through pairs programming and code review process.

This is a lead developer position running a team of approximately six distributed developers. Strong interpersonal skills are a must-have requirement for this role.

Starting with a 3-month probationary period, exceptional candidates will be offered a full-time role once this completes.


* Develop a sense of product ownership and share the responsibility for its strategic direction

* Provide architectural vision for the platform and help set the roadmap for its execution

* Continuously drive the development team to work efficiently to deliver new features to the platform

* Lead-from-the-front in all programming matters

* Keeping up to date with the latest developments in software engineering

* Suggesting new ideas for platform features

* Play a key part in deciding the future programming landscape and technology stack

* Strong participation in the agile project management process

* Collaborate closely with senior management, product owner, product designer, project management, business analysts, QA testers, test automation engineers and the DevOps team.

* Ability to liaise with key enterprise clients of the platform to ensure delivery expectations are fully managed.

* Provide strong leadership for a fully remote and distributed development team




General Skills


* Ability to work in a team with a desire to contribute and make an impact from day one

* Communicate complex ideas in a clear and concise manner

* Interest in financial investments and capital markets

* Good interpersonal and presentation skills

* Proactive and pragmatic




Essential Technical Skills / Experience


* Full-stack developer

* Highly proficient in JavaScript (TypeScript) and PHP

* Strong familiarity with Vue.js and PHP Symfony

* Flare for innovation and design

* Production "eye" for quality  

* Full familiarity with AWS tech stack

* Relational Databases

* Strong grasp of software development fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, development methodologies) 

* Systems integration and API development experience




Desirable Skills / Experience


* Other JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular)

* Front-end development (HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS)

* Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

* Python




Minimum Academic Qualifications


* BSc in Computer Science (2:1)




The Ideal Candidate


* Practical approach, hands-on and a strong team player

* Good interpersonal and presentation skills

* Self-starter and resourceful

* Intelligent and with high energy levels