About Valcon

Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology and data company based in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Croatia.

Valcon is private equity backed and in recent years has bought together some of the most exiting companies from these companies to form one of the brightest and most exciting consultancies around. We're one of the fastest growing companies across Europe and have no plans to stop.

Overview of Technology Practice:

We’re at the forefront of empowering the future of work, helping organisations of all sizes achieve their goals. For large enterprises, we eliminate manual labour through automation and intelligent tools, boosting knowledge worker productivity. Across the board, we build high-quality, performant and user-friendly solutions that leverage the latest technologies to deliver exceptional results for both scale-ups and large companies.

Our Technology Practice has 5 capabilities:

• IT Architecture
• Cloud Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Intelligent Process Automation
• Quality Management

The Role

We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Full Stack Software Engineer to join our technology delivery team. You’ll be working with clients and cross-functional teams to design, test, build and support secure, scalable web applications. This role requires full stack development expertise, experience of deploying and supporting web applications in production, and a proactive and positive approach towards problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, building and supporting full stack web applications using modern languages such as React and Java
• Writing and maintaining automated build pipelines using tools such as Drone and GitHub Actions
• Building and supporting AWS Serverless and Containerised infrastructure
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are met in design and implementation relating to Security, Performance, Scalability and High Availability
• Supporting and debugging live applications, and communicating issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders – including peers, managers, clients and users
• Engaging with other teams to resolve external dependencies
• Implementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to aid application support

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience developing and supporting full stack web applications, ideally using Java and a modern JavaScript frontend framework
• Supporting production applications, ideally at scale
• Modern software development tools and processes such as Git, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Developing, documenting and maintaining REST APIs
• AWS services such as IAM, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFront
• Database technologies, schema design and SQL
• System design for modern web applications
• Eligible for security clearance

Nice to Have

• Expertise in Spring Boot
• Expertise in React
• Experience with writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Scripting with Bash and Python, and familiarity with Linux
• Python and Data Engineering experience
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies such as Scrum, XP and Kanban

We offer you

The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment with an informal culture, with a flat hierarchy, in which we cooperate across business areas and levels. You will be working with some of the most talented and experienced consultants, and you will become part of a value-driven company.

We care about results, not methodologies. But first and foremost, we care about people and how we can constantly challenge each other to become better. To do better. Your background is less important to us than your ability to create results, to create change. We prize excellence and ingenuity but know that both have to be grounded in reality. The reality of making our clients ready for the future.

Application

We will be reviewing applications and conducting interviews on an on-going basis, so please send us your application as soon as possible.