TESTQ Technologies
Back End Developer
Back End Developer at TESTQ Technologies, based in Sheffield, Yorkshire. This is a permanent role.
- Pay
- Not given by the employer
- Hours and contract
- Permanent · On site
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Closing date
- Sector
- Software Developer
Reference 642846177462657161
About the role
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Owners to deeply understand requirements and break them down into focused deliverable items
- Design and build robust scalable microservices with high observability and supportability following DevOps and Agile principles
- Own your deliverables endtoend from design through deployment and hit agreed timelines
- Provide rapid effective production support perform root cause analysis on incidents and drive longterm fixes that stick
- Act as a trusted technical consultant for platform users resolving queries and unblocking teams with speed and clarity
- Collaborate closely with crossfunctional IT teams and coordinate stakeholder activities to keep the platform evolving
- Proactively manage technical debt and keep security and vulnerability posture sharp
- Mentor junior developers share knowledge generously and champion a highperforming team culture
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 8 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps Platform Engineering or SRE
- Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood DNS TLS load balancing reverse proxies service meshes and API gateways and how these come together in modern microservice architectures
- Handson experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB familiarity with time series databases and data visualization concepts
- A proactive mindset you spot problems performance bottlenecks and improvement opportunities before they become urgent
- Proven experience managing critical production incidents under pressure
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills comfortable working with crossfunctional and geographically distributed teams
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies and drive selfdevelopment and knowledge sharing within the team
- Strong knowledge of LinuxUnix systems and networking fundamentals
- Handson experience with KVMVMware virtualisation
- Familiarity with cloud platforms AWS GCP or Azure and containerisation Docker Kubernetes
Skills
Mandatory Skills : API Gateway, GCP DevOps, Grafana, Java
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Reference: 642846177462657161 · Posted 4 days ago · Closes 29 Nov 2026 · Listed via TESTQ Technologies
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