About this role
Description
Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specializing in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognized for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.
We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network on a permanent basis.
As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.
You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few.
A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.
This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.
Responsibilities
- Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
- Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices
- Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.
- Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).
- Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
- Mentoring client team members.
- Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.
Required Skills
- Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
- Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
- Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
- Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.
Nice To Have
- Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
- Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.
Other facts
About Equal Experts
We are honoured to be recognised as the second-best place to work in the UK, according to Glassdoor’s prestigious 2025 list.
Equal Experts is a global technology consultancy built on experience. With over 4,000 skilled and trusted consultants, our network is the highest concentration of digital technology expertise in the world. We combine speed, precision and pragmatism to solve complex challenges, deliver lasting value and turn ambition into reality.
Since 2007, we have collaborated with forward-looking businesses across sectors, from scale-ups to government organisations and global enterprises, to solve complex challenges and deliver lasting value.
Bringing deep experience
Our customers benefit from smaller, senior teams with an average of 17+ years in the industry. This depth of experience helps us reduce risk, accelerate decision-making and build practical solutions.
Keeping you innovating
With expertise across data, AI, technology strategy, customer experience, product design, software engineering and platform modernisation, our trusted network of specialists help you navigate complexity and accelerate pragmatic innovation.
Easy to work with
Valuing context, we never offer cookie-cutter solutions. Treating each other and our customers as equals, we work side by side to create long-lasting value.
A 100% network-owned organisation
We believe that to be successful for the long term, we need to succeed together. As associates, employees and customers, we all have a vested interest in making Equal Experts the best it can possibly be.
If you are looking for a thoughtful and experienced partner to solve complex challenges and unlock new opportunities, we would love to talk.
What you'll do
- The role involves working with clients to determine system requirements and delivering software using agile practices. Additionally, it includes advocating agile practices and mentoring client team members.
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