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Lead Web Developer

Employer
Home Group
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
8 Apr 2019

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Function
Corporate Services, IT
Seniority
Officer
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Organisation Type
Housing association / RP

Job Details

Lead Web Developer

Newcastle upon Tyne

Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Permanent

Salary circa £50,000 pa negotiable based on skills & experience

You also get to use our award winning benefits package

Giving our customers an amazing experience online. That’s when it hits home!

As an IS team we’re setting out to be more digitally focussed, using the latest technologies, whilst ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our strategy is set, our direction is clear. What comes next is to apply our skills and experience through brilliant team work to innovate, design, and implement systems that really deliver business value.

We’ve got an excellent team foundation to build on as our technical portfolio develops and expands; that’s where you come in. What makes us No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to Work and gives us Investors in People Gold Standard?  It’s our brilliant people and culture!

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Lead Web Developer. You’ll lead our fantastic developers by creating technical solutions and development strategies to deliver our Digital Product Roadmap. We’d love you to bring your extensive experience and drive continuous improvement within our Digital Development processes. Finally you’ll also be an active developer within our agile teams, taking ownership in developing and maintaining our clean and quality code base!

About our team

You’ll work alongside our fabulous team who are passionate about building and delivering innovative digital solutions using the latest technologies. To us were not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. Our manager is Taya, who has a passion for the gym, food and travel and ran the hottest ever recorded London Marathon last year.  There are 9 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! Our Digital Development team is currently made up of developers, DevOps, UX and a Scrum Master. We work closely with our testers and product owners to form our Scrum teams.

A bit about you

As our Lead Developer, you’ll be an expert in various development languages, able to create development strategies and deliver best practise, futureproofed and quality solutions using the latest technologies including React and Node.

You’re a natural leader and great communicator, able to lead and manage our fantastic developers, using your agile knowledge and experience within the team, there will be lots of variety for you to get your teeth into!  

You’ve also got a customer focused approach, recognising the department’s role as a service provider to the business, making sure that we deliver a high quality service at all times.

Working hours

Here at Home Group we believe flexibility works both ways. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours! It’s important to us that you’re in the office so we can work collaboratively and share best practices amongst the team. However there will be times, when you might work from home to concentrate on a particular piece of work. Throughout it’s the team’s unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your child’s school play, your partner’s graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off.

Want to know more?

If you’re not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! To find out more, you’ll be able to download the Lead Web Developer Job Description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got these brilliant videos that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

To Apply

Just upload your CV and really importantly, your covering letter (don’t forget to attach this, as we really want to know more about you!) We’ve also got some great templates to help you (if you need them).

You’re unique!

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

Company

There’s never been a more exciting time to join us, as we build and sell over 10,000 new homes across the UK.  From affordable housing to our brilliant private sale brand Persona, we’re shaking up the new build market.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on everything from affordable homes to luxury apartments and build the career you want with us. 

As one of the UK’s largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.  We also provide long term integrated health and social care housing.  We don’t just build houses, we build homes and develop vibrant communities where people want to live. 

What keeps us busy?

We’re building homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! 

We’re winners of the 2018 UK Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year, Silver Best House at the What House Awards 2018, and RESI Landlord of the Year 2016.  We’re constantly challenging the status quo, delivering unparalleled schemes and ground-breaking products.  We pride ourselves on building happier, healthy homes, putting space and people before profits.

Oh and did we mentioned that we rank No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to work, and 17th in Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2019?    

We’re growing

As we’re building new homes, we’re growing our team too so there are lots of opportunities for you to join us across the UK.  So whether you’re acquiring land, designing places, delivering schemes, selling homes or regenerating neighbourhoods.  You’ll be working alongside brilliant people to unlock bold opportunities, exciting new partnerships and collaborative projects across the UK. 

Join us

You can find out more about us and our current vacancies on our website at www.homegroup.org.uk/careers or on our Facebook and Linkedin pages.    

High-flying career, work life balance, brilliant benefits and a cherry on top!  There are so many reasons you’ll love working at Home Group.  https://youtu.be/624xZO1nXqY

 

Company info
Website
Location
2 Gosforth Park Way
Gosforth Business Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE12 8ET
GB

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