Job Description

Why this job matters
In this Role as a Software Engineering specialist, you will play a pivotal role in creating, developing, and maintaining software solutions using a diverse set of technologies that includes React.js, Typescript and Node You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, mentor team developers, and contribute to the enhancement of our software development processes. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our applications and build top notch frontend apps to our Business customers.
What you'll be doing

• Develop and Implement: Build interactive and responsive web applications using React. You will translate design concepts and user stories into functional, high-quality code.
• API Integration: Implement and integrate RESTful APIs into React applications, working closely with back-end teams to create seamless user experiences.
• Maintain Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while following industry best practices.
• Testing: Implement unit tests to ensure code quality and stability.
• Troubleshooting & Optimization: Debug and optimize code to ensure maximum performance across various devices and browsers.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, designers, and back-end developers, to deliver cohesive software solutions.
• Agile Participation: Actively participate in Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and backlog grooming.
• Code Reviews: Conduct and participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve code quality.
• Documentation: Contribute to and maintain technical documentation to ensure clear communication of implementation details.
• Tooling: Use tools like Jira and Confluence to manage tasks and track progress.

The skills you'll need

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in software development with Full Stack experience,
• Strong expertise in API lifecycle design using OpenAPI specifications (agnostic).
• Hands-on with TMF/ODA frameworks for product and service APIs
• Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in digital products, with hands-on experience in React and Node.js for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable web applications.
• Skilled in Microservices design and API integration, database management, and delivering seamless user experiences.
• Proficient in Cloud-native development and modern development practices, ensuring robust and efficient application performance
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while following industry best practices.
• Contribute to the back end using technologies like Node.js or Java Spring Boot.
• Actively participate in code reviews and implement unit tests to ensure a high standard of code quality.
• Monitor and improve application performance, ensuring a seamless user experience across different devices and browsers.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to translate requirements into functional software.
• Actively participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and backlog grooming.
• Utilize excellent problem-solving skills to debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Contribute to and maintain clear technical documentation to ensure effective communication within the team.

Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
About us
BT Group was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK's best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country's biggest infrastructure companies.
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the , please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

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