Lead Developer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 4,100 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Role overview

This is a newly created position. Canopycast is a small engineering shop and the Product team works across the whole stack. You might write React on Monday and SQL migrations on Tuesday. We need someone who can take a feature from the database schema to the button the customer clicks. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Bristol office Tuesday to Thursday.

Day to day

• Create and maintain REST or GraphQL endpoints.
• Set up admin and reporting screens for internal teams.
• Refactor older code when you touch it rather than working around it.
• Write automated tests at the unit, API and browser level.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full stack development experience.
• Understanding of HTTP, authentication, sessions and cookies.
• Basic cloud deployment experience on AWS, Azure, Heroku or Render.
• Working CSS skills and familiarity with responsive design.

Pay and benefits

• Hybrid working.
• Flexible working hours.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canopycast.