Developer

Software Developer

Where: UK flexible office space available in major UK cities but remoteok. Occasional (once per quarter) national travel to Leeds office for hackathons team events etc.

Full Time Hours: 37.5h/week

Salary: 39891.91 starting salary; guaranteed increments annually up to 46683.60 in this band (based on full time hours pro rata for part time)

Contract Type: 12 Months Fixed Term from start date

Why Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live are a health and social care charity. We support people in a huge range of difficult situations including those who use and alcohol and those whose home life is affected by mental health and/or domestic violence. Were the largest charity of this type in the country supporting tens of thousands of people in their own journeys. Hundreds of staff work across our organisation to support some of the most vulnerable people in society. Among the many services we offer are:

Needle exchanges both inperson and anonymous

Screening for bloodborne viruses

Drug testing for fentanyl nitazene and other harmful additives

Prescribing safer alternatives to opioids to reduce harm from street

Working with local pharmacies to check people have picked up lifesaving medication

Case workers who specialise in helping children and young people

Our technology

Weve got complex needs: recording monitoring and reviewing information about our clients with their informed consent. Our inhouse web application acts as an electronic patient record a case management system a quality management system and more its grown over the last 15 years!

We started out with a Perl application and have improved it aggressively over the years. All our software is deployed using Docker containers using ECS; much of it using infrastructureascode tools like Terraform and Pulumi. Our data is stored in a serverless/autoscaling MySQL database.

Newer work is often written in TypeScript using NestJS and SvelteKit. Well use a variety of testing tools in both languages: endtoend integration and unit testing are all covered.

We practice a genuinely blamefree culture with incidents/mistakes and always focus our conversations on improving processes not individual recrimination.

Were looking for compassionate bold openminded software developers to help us build this software. Your efforts will empower frontline professionals carry out their lifesaving work.

About you!

An ideal candidate will have some familiarity with SQL: our team write queries often!

Wed love to see candidates with some strong knowledge of HTML and CSS beyond the basics. We dont need you to know any frameworks in particular but wed love to see great fundamentals for building on the web so you should have some experience building applications using JavaScript in the browser.

Debugging and testing experience is a must in any language we think thats a highly transferrable skill.

Previous experience with Perl is not a strict requirement. Were happy to show you the ropes youll be up to speed in no time!

You should really care about security. Youll be happy to openly discuss approaches which make the software as safe as possible for people who use our services.

Youll relish or at least enjoy the challenge of diving into legacy code and documenting improving and testing the code our users rely on. When you choose to rebuild things its because you genuinely understand the previous solution and its shortcomings.

Youll be a curious generalist thinker never limiting yourself to one narrow specialty. As a team well jump from CSS to AWS infrastructure in a days work. Of course we dont know everything: its a perfect environment for learning; I dont know let me check is always a good answer.

Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities

If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live then we would love to talk to you.

Fulltime hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For parttime roles the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

If you require sponsorship please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more hereSkilled Worker visa: Overview GOV (www)