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Grid Smarter Cities are at the forefront of the drive towards cleaner, safer and smarter cities. Based in the centre of Newcastle, and proudly so, we're at a very exciting stage in our company's growth as we look to bring a new developer into our core product delivery team.

At Grid we work on interesting, meaningful products in a lean, fast-moving fashion. We ranked top 10 for IP, now we need to get our products out to the world!

We want to collaborate with interesting people; it could be you, especially if you have some of the skills and interests below:

• You care about the users of the product.
• You are a professional who cares about your craft.
• You like working as part of a team.
• You spend time thinking before doing.
• You don't think something is done if you've not tested it.
• You're a nice person - we've got a small team which we're looking to grow, and we all get on splendidly, so we'd like you to help us grow our team and maintain our culture.
• You're a contributor - someone who wants to be involved in defining our core products as well as building them.
• You have a passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
• You are open to new ideas and ways of working.

What we'd like you to have:

• 3+ years experience in a Backend related engineering role.
• Experience in a development language such as Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, Shell, etc.
• Good code craftsmanship and software design skills.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• A strong interest in best practice ways of working such as DevOps, TDD, Trunk-based Development, CI/CD and XP.
• Excellent communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment.
• An understanding of agile development practices.
• Good Git version control skills with Github.

Additional nice to haves:

• Experience in deploying web applications, databases or other backend services.
• Experience in developing/maintaining applications in an AWS or other cloud environment.
• Experience with serverless technologies and application development.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

Technologies we use:

• Python / Bash / Lambda
• AWS (Managed and Serverless)
• Github
• Jira + Confluence
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• Slack / Zoom

Salary and benefits:

• Salary between £45,000 to £55,000 per annum.
• Work for a #Tech4Good company.
• Flexible working hours, outside of core hours of 10am to 3pm.
• A defined contribution pension.
• 25 days holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays; increasing after the second year, as you're with the company year-on-year, up to a maximum of 30 days.
• A Macbook Pro for work use.
• 1 day per month, solely for training and learning.
• A training budget of £1,000 per year.
• A budget for purchasing home office equipment.

If you want to be part of a company creating a new parking-defining product, to help shape the company, as well as the products we build, please get in touch.