Assistant Digital Engineer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.
We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support.

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

We help our client’s put information at the heart of what they do and derive ever greater value from it. Our focus is the provision of outcome focused, game-changing results. This is powered by a unique combination of domain plus digital expertise, harnessing 120 years of engineering legacy alongside the power of cutting-edge technology, from both Mott MacDonald and our partners. By ‘connecting innovation to outcomes' we can continue to enable better outcomes across the planning, delivery, and operation of our client's asset base.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting architectural decisions and code / design reviews on new and existing product features across the stack
• Taking leadership on the development of specific functionality
• Support the optimisation and refactoring of code as well as bug fixing in the existing codebase, conducting peer reviews on new and existing features
• Building dynamic and responsive UI experiences to use across desktop, tablet and mobile devices for our Moata platform
• Defining and maintaining our coding standards and best practices
• Supporting multiple projects at various stages of the development lifecycle in parallel, working on both high and low spec jobs
• Further develop your skills across a modern technology stack and architecture
• Continue contributing towards our collaborative and positive team culture

Skills:

The candidate needs to be experienced in C# and Front end technologies (preferably React with Typescript) and modern software development as well as understand scaling software systems. You'll commit to high quality code and be able to pay attention to detail.

Essential skills and experience required:

• .NET / C#
• JavaScript ES2016+ & TypeScript
• React (Ideally 18+), Redux/Redux Toolkit, Testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library),
• HTML 5 / Material UI / SCSS
• Working with and designing RESTful API’s
• Azure, MSSQL, PostgreSQL or other SQL databases.

It would also be advantageous if you had exposure to any of the following:

• Working in Agile teams (preferably following Scrum)
• CI/CD, Knowledge of Object Oriented Design, Security management
• Caching techniques & Cloud technologies
• Creating and managing NPM packages
• Mono Repos & Integration testing
• Experience contributing to the architecture/ design of new or current applications (micro frontends, design patterns, reliability, scaling, automation)
• Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance
• Google Analytics

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing