Walt Disney World Resort: Senior Full Stack Developer (12 Month FTC)

Developer is needed in London, UK, United Kingdom.

Client: Walt Disney World Resort

Location: London, UK

Contract: Full Time

Responsibilities:

• Taking a leading role in Front and Back-end website development, managing junior team members to deliver complex solutions across full development life cycle, bringing a talent for complex problem solving and ability to provide new perspectives to bear on consistently improving the team and product.
• Organise and manage website release process both on legacy and MVC web applications, ensuring feature code can enter production smoothly and seamlessly.
• Take line-management responsibility for two junior developers, providing regular performance reviews, technical direction and mentoring. Ensure direct reports are cognisant of company and team processes and practices and act as a resource on technical and business requirements. Work with the relevant business partners to resolve any HR issues direct reports may have.
• Write and evangelise maintainable, scalable, fault-tolerant code, utilizing SOLID principles and OO design/architectural patterns. Ensure standards and best-practices are understood and followed by all team members, training and mentoring where necessary.
• Demonstrate conceptual and practical expertise in platform architecture, ideally with experience of complex greenfield web applications.
• Take Scrum management responsibility when required, running scrum ceremonies (retro, shaping, daily stand-ups) and ensuring the team is empowered to meet sprint commitments.
• Provide technical expertise and in-depth knowledge to digital production team in requirement and scoping meetings in order to create accurate and detailed feature requirements.
• Mentor and support more junior team members. Lead on small projects both independently and in supervisory role, helping up-skill the team in both technical and product knowledge.
• Proactively manage tools, hardware and environments to support development requirements.
• Manage integration with third party software providers (e.g. Queue-It), taking responsibility for maintaining the relationship and integrating the technology successfully into the website.
• Motivate and lead team members to identify workflows and services for managing code, from version control to deployment strategies.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience with bespoke ecommerce web applications is essential.
• Full-stack development experience with in-depth back-end (C#, ASP.NET, MVC 5) and front-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, react) web application knowledge.
• Extensive experience with Visual Studio, or equivalent IDE.
• Significant experience and understanding of SOAP WebServices and XML/XPATH.
• Solid experience of RESTful API development and consumption.
• Significant working knowledge of SQL Server and T-SQL queries and code-first Entity Framework ORM development.
• Experience with IoC containers (Autofac, Ninject etc)
• DevOps experience, with knowledge of CI and automated build tools (e.g. TeamCity, Cake, Octopus)
• Experience with SDL Tridion (or similar enterprise CMS) desirable
• Experience with Photoshop (other Adobe CC desirable).
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g. NUnit, MOQ, Specflow)
• Experience leading an Agile team in a Scrum Master capacity.
• Proven expertise with source code management products and processes (e.g. Git, Gitflow, SourceTree)
• Comfortable working in small teams, and taking the lead in managing development tools, environments, etc. as required.
• Proven track record of delivering features and projects to deadlines and hitting milestones.