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Technical Lead

Dubit is looking for a strong technical lead to join us in making products for some of the biggest names in the children’s entertainment business.

We want you to be a key part of our growing sixty-plus team of bright individuals working together on creating, designing and developer exciting games, apps and VR experiences.

We work with international clients such as Mattel, PBS and Dreamworks across a huge variety of projects and technologies, so there’s always something new and interesting to work on.

If you enjoy solving technical challenges, have what it takes to lead on technical decisions, love collaborating with a skilled team and using the latest Javascript technologies and techniques then check out our requirements and what it is like to work at Dubit below.

Requirements

• Strong and demonstrable Javascript coding experience
• Experience in leading, mentoring and getting the best out of others
• Experience with improving team skills and processes
• Ability to solve technical problems and guide technical decisions
• Experience and skills in designing, architecting and delivering clean, modern codebases, including:
  • Experience with automated testing (BDD/TDD or otherwise)
  • Understanding and use of design patterns
  • Use and configuration of linting tools
  • Continuous integration and deployment
• Can communicate technical concepts to audiences of varying levels, including clients
• Experience of working in, and/or facilitating, an agile software development process
• Experience working with APIs, cloud services such as AWS and Docker containers

Ideal candidates will also have

• Experience across the stack or multiple frameworks and technologies
• Some experience with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native
• Experience adding value to the wider development team and organisation:
  • Putting technical details into client proposals
  • Being a part of the recruitment process
  • Reporting status and risks to business stakeholders

Our day to day process:

• Work as part of a cross-disciplined team of technical and non-technical members
• Planning work in an agile Scrum process
• Conducting pair programming when beneficial
• Performing and receiving regular code reviews
• Automated testing and deployment to our QA environment of merged pull requests

If this sounds like you, please apply using the application form; salary and benefits offered are dependent on experience.

We look forward to hearing from you!

What you get from working with us:

• Healthcare scheme including virtual GP
• Contributory pension scheme
• Free parking and walking distance from Leeds Train Station
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Use of various VR technologies
• A day off for birthday additional to annual leave
• Healthy snacks (fruit), less healthy snacks, drinks, coffee machine, etc
• Flexitime with core hours
• A great environment to work in, its an old train repair shed with rail tracks, crane and lots of character.

Things to expect in our recruitment pipeline:

• An initial phone call to make sure we fit together, culture is hugely important to us and a discussion about the role and salary.
• Then a face to face interview in our Leeds Office - 15 minutes walk from the train station or there's parking if you choose to drive in.
• Successful candidates must be able to provide documents to prove eligibility to work in the UK, e.g. Passport.
• Due to the nature of Dubit's work successful, we are required to complete an enhanced DBS check on successful candidates.