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If you feel you have the skills and experience required to join the team at theidol.com, please send us your CV, contact details and a short statement about you and your suitability for the role.

We are looking for an experienced web developer to join our team on a full-time basis. This role will involve working within the secured resources team who work closely with Legal and General’s customers, such as Barclays, TSB, Sainsbury’s and Nationwide. Reporting into a senior developer, you will be a key component of our agile development team, working on building and maintaining industry leading customer journeys.

• Writing well designed, structured, testable code based upon industry and development best practices.
• Maintaining, updating and continuously developing deployed solutions.
• Integrating front-end, backend, API and databased systems and services.
• Ensuring the quality of your developed solutions by writing comprehensive automated tests.
• Interpreting software requirements and translating those into developed solutions.
• Defining code development processes within the development team.
• Creating and maintain software documentation.
• Being aware of emerging new technologies.
• Taking part in and fully adopting the Agile methodology.

Weekly

• Working as a team, achieve goals by completing small, manageable, well-defined tasks using a scrum / sprint methodology.
• Attending and contributing to Scrum ceremonies.
• Flag issues and raise concerns which may impede workflow.
• Engage with other teams or parts of the business to share knowledge, refine tasks and eliminate unknowns.
• Provide technical support to a wide range of IT users and proficiencies.

Monthly

• Periodically, meet with your line manager to review targets, performance, and needs.
• Participate in technical stand-ups with development team.

Annually

• Meet agreed objectives between you and your line manager.
• Attend training courses relevant to your role or solutions.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications

• Proven experience working in web development.
• Familiarity of at least one Java Script programming language.
• A solid understanding of security and development best practices.
• An understanding of relational database systems and code management solutions.
• Experience driving Agile Operational Strategy forward.

Behaviours

• Diagnosing and identifying problems, and creatively solving them.
• Providing verbal and written communication that is clear and concise to colleagues, senior management as well as other stakeholders.
• Flexible and adaptable – capable of changing direction where required, showing flexibility to meet new demands and quickly leaning and mastering new and existing technologies.
• Self-managing own workload and continually meeting agreed deadlines and delivery targets.
• Multi-tasking – managing several concurrent projects and prioritising demands.
• Being approachable and friendly, and contributing to a positive and active working environment.
• Being prepared to be challenged as well as take the initiative.
• Demonstrating self-driven learning (although training will be provided where needed).

Come work for us and take advantage of amazing benefits such as:

• Flexible working hours.
• Christmas bonus and annual bonus based on company performance.
• Death in service life insurance benefit of 8x salary.
• Access to our private medical plan (provided by Bupa).
• Access to dental insurance (provided by Bupa Dental Insurance).
• Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer pension contribution.
• Access to Legal & General’s share schemes.
• A modern, custom built office with free parking.
• On site gym and recreational activities including pool and table tennis.
• Free tea, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruit.
• Exceptional events delivered by our social committee.

• This is a full-time Monday to Friday role with flexible working on average 37.5 hours per week.
• Remote or flexible home/office working supported. There is a requirement to attend the office in Cumbria approximately twice a month (expenses will be provided depending on your location).
• A full role profile can be downloaded - here

If you have a genuine enthusiasm and an ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, you may be just what we’re looking for!