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RSPB • Flexible in UK

Senior Developer

Employment type:  Contract
Salary:  £47,710 – £53,826 per annum

3–4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

Job Description

The RSPB has always been here to save nature - from our origins as a campaign to end the use of feathers in women's hats right through to our present-day ground-breaking research, saving species from extinction, protecting some of wildlife's finest sites in the UK and beyond and engaging millions of people in the wonders of wildlife. We've been successful because we've always adapted.

The RSPB’s digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home – from rallying people together to speak up for nature, inspire a love of wildlife, and raise the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and worldwide.

You can work without direction translating business requirements into technical solutions, conduct code reviews ensuring work is production ready, highly effective, and efficient. You will be comfortable in multi-project sprint-based environment, focussed on efficiency and removing constraints by turning obstacles into opportunities.

You must be commercially competent throughout your range of skills and be able to draw on a wealth of experience. Confident to go beyond your comfort zone and experiment with unfamiliar technologies when needed and thrive in dynamic teams exhibiting agility and capability with high frequency delivery cycles.

We use a range of technologies and platforms and are always looking to develop solutions most suitable for each project. You may be working with a range of these including Single Page Applications, JavaScript, Angular, NPM and Azure.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

· You will bring a high level of development expertise to the team and work individually and collectively to support the RSPB e-commerce platform.

· You will be able to communicate effectively with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders

· You will be able to respond to business requirements with innovative solutions and present creative lateral thinking to technical roadblocks.

· Your rich experience and broad skillset will mean you are a multi-faceted engineer, commercially competent in many languages and comfortable with the architecture they run on.

· You will have experience in delivering modern front-end driven single-page and multi-page applications.

Benefits:

  • 34 days of annual leave includes bank holidays, Employee volunteer day with charity or organisation of choice, Up to 4 weeks Sabbatical opportunities after 5 years of service, Toil and Flexible Working.

This is a 12-month contract role, 30 hours per week. We support a healthy work-life balance and full remote working to help save nature through people.

Due to the critical nature of this role, we will interview applicants as soon as possible and close the post once successful applicants are appointed. For further information please contact melissa.werry@rspb.org.uk

As part of this application, you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete a short form.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Before applying for this role, we recommend reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced sick pay

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options RSPB provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure RSPB is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at RSPB

Company employees

2400

Gender diversity (male:female)

41:59

Office locations

Across all 4 UK Countries

Hiring Countries

Liberia
United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
Charity & Tech For Good

Charity & Tech For Good

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
2nd – Charity & Tech For Good

2nd – Charity & Tech For Good

Industry awards 2022