Who we are:

Grid Smarter Cities are at the forefront of the drive towards smarter cities. Based in the centre of Newcastle, and proudly so, we’ve been developing software for 3 years and are at a very exciting stage in our company’s growth as we look to bring a new developer into our core product delivery team.

We work on interesting, meaningful products in a lean, fast moving fashion. You’ll build products that really make a difference and your contribution to the whole product development lifecycle is invaluable to us, we don’t just want you to sit behind a keyboard all day.

Who we’d like you to be:

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 your product
• You love the agile principles
• You are a professional who cares about your craft
• You like working as part of a team
• You spend a little time thinking before doing
• You don't think something is done if you've not tested it
• You're a nice person
• You're a contributor - someone who wants to be involved in defining our core products as well as building them

What we’d like you to have:

• You are keen on DevOps, TDD, BDD, CI/CD and XP ways of working in general
• You understand the importance of CI/CD
• You know REST principles and patterns
• You can see how an awesome cloud provider can make us productive
• Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
• An understanding of agile development practices
• You are open to new ideas and ways of working

Stuff we use:

• AWS (Serverless)
• Github
• Python

Stuff you might have used:

• Java, C#, Scala, Javascript
• Azure, GCP
• Gitlab, MTFS

If you want to be part of something from the ground up, to help shape a company as well as the products we build, please get in touch.