Software Engineer (Remote Consultant)

About Equal Experts

Equal Experts is a global network of over 2,000 technologists, based across five continents. A consultancy made up of senior practitioners, we bring the step-change customers need to sustain a culture of digital innovation.

We do this by helping them to make better decisions with data, use design thinking to unlock value faster, and accelerate the pace of delivery as they scale. We have long-term relationships with clients like HM Revenue and Customs, Pret a Manger, The Home Office, John Lewis & Partners, and O2.

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What will you do?

When on a project with us, you’ll integrate an agile environment, and be responsible for developing end-to-end solutions with our clients. You’re expected to contribute not only with your technical skills but also to share knowledge within the team. You will be involved in different types of projects (one at a time), working on a full-stack perspective, doing front-end and/or back-end according to the needs.

This is a fully remote position, so you can work from wherever you’d like, as long as you are based in Slovakia.

Why us?

- Great work-life balance - we trust people to responsibly manage their schedule, working at times that suit their personal needs and the team
- A truly remote-friendly culture
- No line-management, with a lot of autonomy and empowerment
- Wok with like-minded senior practitioners, allowing you to grow, learn and share
- Diversity of projects with different challenges and tech stacks
- S-trong maturity in agile delivery
- You’re able to take other work outside of Equal Experts realm if you find it yourself and still stay within the EE network for future challenges - we’ll welcome you back at any time!
- Be part of a community of thousands of senior professionals and have access to EE internal blog, events and referral scheme

About you

- Solid technical background, with extensive experience in a similar role and in one or more languages of choice
- Practical experience and enthusiastic about agile practices
- Solid experience working with Functional or Object-Oriented Programming
- Willingness to learn new technologies and move between different tech stacks
- Experience with unit testing frameworks and willingness to work in a test automation environment
- Capable of conveying ideas and break down concepts clearly to a diverse range of stakeholders (verbally and written)
- Adaptable, comfortable switching contexts and dealing with ambiguity
- Low-ego, empathetic, with a “grown-up” attitude
- Fluent in English, written and spoken
- Available to travel for periods of 1-2 weeks

Nice to have

- Experience working with distributed teams
- Experience in client-facing roles
- Experience with Pair Programming, TDD, CI/CD
- Familiarity with cloud-based technologies and with a DevOps/Operability mindset

What it's like to work here

We believe happy teams make better software, and we take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in our output. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem-solving, we help our clients improve their end-to-end capability.

We are tech agnostic and we will use the best technology to solve the client’s problem. Here are some examples of what we’ve used in the past: Node.js, Java, TypeScript, React.js, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, C#, Vue.js, AWS, Azure, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Kubernetes, among others)

Our core principles

Hands-on Delivery of work that adds real value
Continuous Delivery, automated whenever possible
Constant Learning and self-improvement
Responsible Innovation, results come first
Genuine Collaboration, a low-ego working environment

You can expect a competitive rate. Check how it looks like to work with us as a software engineer and what people say on Glassdoor!