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Leighton • Newcastle

Senior Fullstack AWS Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
98%

Location flexibility

94%

Hours flexibility

91%

Culture

Job Description

About Us

Leighton: 30+ years and counting. Experienced and agile. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands. We develop and deliver custom software. We use technology to make money, save money, create efficiencies, integrate systems, solve problems. To help our customers thrive. We have a pool of talent. To manage projects. Test to high standards. Create user experiences for every type of user. We include, include, include. Our service is personal. We know your name. We can do amazing things with tech. We’ve got the talent. We decide what’s best for our customer together.

Our Values

The Leighton culture defines how we do business and how we interact with our colleagues and customers. It makes us unique and provides us with a competitive advantage

  • We act with honesty and truth, always!
  • We collaborate to bring our purpose to life in a caring and supportive way
  • We nurture our amazing people to be the best version of themselves
  • Passionate about what we do, proud of what we achieve
  • Our curiosity inspires the amazing

The Role

We understand people may be looking to change roles in the coming months or years, for whatever reason, and at Leighton we are always looking for the next great talent to join us. We have some exciting projects and opportunities coming up and we would love to hear from like minded individuals who are interested in finding out if Leighton could be their next career move.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

Work in partnership with our customers to:

  • Turn concepts and requirements into exceptional, highly available, quality, web or mobile applications using industry standard languages and technologies
  • A combination of at least two of these languages, covering both frontend and backend within the following: JavaScript, Java, Node.js, React
  • Implement highly modular and maintainable components across a horizontally scalable application framework designed to maximise reuse across multiple channels
  • Deliver exceptional software solutions to specification and on-schedule.
  • Participate in the definition of scope of projects and estimates of timescales for development and maintenance work
  • Produce accurate and unambiguous functional and technical documentation of products, systems and services prior to and during development
  • Proactively suggest ways to improve the quality of software releases. Work with the team to ensure that development follows best practice and the Leighton delivery model.
  • Share your expertise

Behaviours

  • An open and genuine communicator
  • Able to take responsibility for your actions
  • Always learning and wanting to improve
  • Takes responsibility for own development
  • Love what you do
  • Value and support your team
  • Embrace who you are
  • Open minded and willing to explore new ideas

What We Offer

We value our team and to attract exceptional people, we offer an excellent package! In 2023 we were recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place To Work UK, the global authority on workplace culture.


As a Leighton employee you can look forward to:

  • A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience.
  • A contributory pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
  • A flexible approach to working hours
  • Continuous personal development, career path and training
  • And more....

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Adoption leave
Dog friendly office
Enhanced sick days
Work from anywhere scheme
Open to compressed hours
Hubble credits
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Compassionate leave
Mental health platform access
Cinema discounts
Bank holiday swaps
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Shared parental leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Life assurance
Salary sacrifice
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Sabbaticals
Teambuilding days
Skilled worker visas
Employee assistance programme
L&D budget
Employee discounts
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Leighton what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
98%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
94%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
81%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
87%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
90%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
90%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
84%
Employees feel that the diversity, and the efforts to improve and maintain it, are great
Inclusion
86%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
91%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
86%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
75%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Leighton

Company employees

92

Gender diversity (male:female)

64:36

Office locations

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Funding levels

N/A

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023

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