Full Stack Developer Consultant

London, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

About Baringa:

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

As a Certified B Corporation®, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering (DAISE) practice is looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer to join the team.

In DAISE, we are focused on delivering value-adding, sustainable data capabilities, aligned to our client’s specific needs. This expertise is applied across clients in all of our industry market sectors (Financial Services, Products & Services, Energy & Resources, Pharmaceutical & Lifesciences and Government).

What You Will Be Doing

You will be using your expertise to help our clients solve their most important data challenges. You will play a significant role in supporting the growth of our team, enabling them to build the skillsets required to solve our clients' challenges.

We take a consultative, solution-focused approach to advising our clients: typical engagements will range across both front and back-end development engagements, such as:

• Confidently taking complex client requirements and business logic and defining the iterative steps required to solve the problem
• Writing production grade code from scratch that is performant, optimised and fully tested, with a high degree of confidence in the work being delivered
• Defining the most appropriate testing method for a given solution, establishing confidence with the clients that the code deployed is robust, functional and covered by tests
• Ability to define data models that are mindful of frontend and backend requirements, ensuring seamless integration with backend APIs and accounting for frontend performance
• Understanding the common vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP) that could be flagged during a penetration test, with the ability to suggest and implement mitigations
• Leveraging code versioning tools such as Git in complex and shared developer environments and adhering to project branching strategies
• Performing maturity assessments across clients’ software capabilities and recommending improvements
• Helping clients to identify risks and mitigations for their complex programmes, as well as transition to modern cloud-based infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) by leveraging related architecture patterns (e.g., APIs, events)
  
  

Front End Development:

• Capturing clients’ visions and exploring the art-of-the-possible, demonstrating the advantages of a modern user experience and the benefits of web applications
• Designing wireframes using industry-standard techniques, embracing feedback, and presenting outcomes back to clients
• Building production-ready, modern, multi-platform (desktop, tablet, mobile) web applications with responsive design and user experience at the heart
• Implement robust frontend security controls for Headers, Authentication and Authorisation
• Leverage the latest frameworks and tools such as Progressive Web Apps, advanced frontend caching strategies and automated end-to-end user testing Integrating web applications into modern IT estates (cloud environments)
  
  

Backend Development:

• Transforming client requirements into API designs and data models
• Implementing, and deploying production grade, robust and secure APIs
• Being a team player and working with front-end developers to clearly communicate and define schema requirements for seamless integration
• Working to ensure APIs are secure and well validated, stopping any users from circumnavigating controls and guardrails
• Ensuring optimal backend performance in context of the backend code and external services such as databases
• Interacting with databases and data stores in an efficient and secure manner
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

We are seeking a passionate and dynamic developer. You might be most excited to design and build modern user interfaces with outstanding UX, or perhaps focused on scalable and secure backend service delivery. We are looking for a ‘lifelong learner’ who can demonstrate a drive to always be learning and developing your skillsets and develop the skillsets of others around you.

Below We List Some Of The Skills We Are Looking For. Of Course, We Do Not Expect You To Be An Expert In All Areas And We Understand That Experiences Vary Based On The Background And Years Of Experience:

• Competency in one or more common programming languages
• Python
• JavaScript
• Typescript
• Unit testing using Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Pytest, Jest or similar
• Logging and Exception handling
• Cloud Development:
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• High Performance programming:
• Asynchronous
• Multi-Core
• OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
  

Backend Skills

• Familiarity with building REST APIs, preferred experience using FastAPI or Django.
• Schema validation and Authentication:
• Pydantic
• DataClasses
• Headers
• Auth Tokens
• SQL and No-SQL experience
  

Frontend Skills

• Designing responsive web applications for use on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
• Frontend Libraries (React preferred) and frameworks such as NextJs
• Component libraries (Material UI preferred)
• State management (Redux, React Context)
• UI/UX design tools such as Figma
  
  

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Baringa Is a People First Company And Wellbeing Is At The Forefront Of Our Culture. We Recognise The Importance Of Work-life Balance And Flexible Working And Provide Our Staff Amazing Benefits. Some Of These Benefits Include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Our B Corp™ certification shows that we’ve met and held ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.

We’re proud of our recent exploration of kindness and its role in business in our first-ever brand campaign: Economics of Kindness . You can see some additional recent impact work by clicking here .

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.