Web Technical Lead (Permanent)

Are you an experienced Web Developer looking for an exciting new challenge?

If the answer is YES, Freedom Finance have the perfect opportunity for you! Freedom Finance is an award-winning and growing FinTech company. We are seeking a Web Technical Lead to join our team to help deliver the technology supporting our product offerings and be part of our ambitious plans for the future.

• Competitive salary up to £45,000 (dependant on experience)
• 40 hours per week
• 30 days holiday including Bank Holiday (increases with length of service)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Westfield Healthcare cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Zest – Events club by staff for the staff
• Regular social events and incentives
• Plus, much more!

These are just some of the reasons to join our talented team!

Our people are our most important asset, without the right people in our business we wouldn’t be where we are today. We are always on the lookout for individuals who want to help shape and build our business to move with the future.

What will you be doing?

We have recently launched a new Cloud-based platform, increasing speed and efficiency for our customers and our growing panel of lenders. As our Web Technical Lead, you’ll be responsible for leading a web team on an ambitious programme of digital change.

Having replatformed our technology into AWS Cloud, we are now looking to deliver key strategic business objectives using its new digital platform, marketing technologies, machine learning, and data. Key Web Technical Lead responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of web developers who work both on-site and remotely
• Establish web development standards and ensure they are consistently applied
• Lead the web team in ensuring the best technical solutions are designed & built
• Document technical/solutions designs
• Present and contribute to solutions reviews in the Solution Design Authority Committee
• Ensure code quality is high, that it is measured and continuously improved
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and establish objectives for development
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and operation of web applications and that any issues are proactively found and resolved
• Responsible for line management of on-site web developers

What do you need?

• HTML (5), CSS/LESS, JavaScript, PHP, AngularJS
• Interfacing to JSON APIs
• Must have strong experience of GIT source control
• Web Standards, including accessibility standards
• Deep knowledge of web security and OWASP
• Automated testing of web software
• Mobile-first development approach
• Knowledgeable on best practice UX & UI design approaches
• Development on multiple devices & browsers, including processes for enhancing features for new browsers and graceful degradation for older browsers
• Knowledge of e-commerce application development, testing and deployment
• Continuous integration and delivery pipelines

Our ideal Web Technical Lead:

• Passionate web technologist / developer
• Adaptable and flexible with the tenacity to get things done
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated and driven
• Well organised, focussed with strong attention to detail
• Continually strives to improve themselves and those around them
• Excited by change and able to embrace a rapidly changing business landscape

If this sounds like the right career move for you, click apply for our Web Technical Lead role!

No terminology in this advert is intended to be deemed discriminatory. We are happy to accept applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.