Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.

Overview of role
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to become a Full Stack Software Engineer within our Digital Unit. The home office location is London, where you will join and become a key part of our global team and business.
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.

The specific duties include:

• 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
• Coaching junior engineers
• 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

Candidate specification

The successful candidate must be a team player and effective communicator, confident in their capability, whilst able to recognise areas for development. They should have a natural ability in nurturing best practice and consciousness in everyone. They must also be able to think creatively and should always be seeking new and more efficient ways to improve the application and associated development processes.

The candidate needs to be experienced in C# and React (preferably 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

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.