Senior Developer

We have a new opportunity to join our highly successful Development team as a Senior Developer, based in either Witney or Marlow.

As a leading global provider of people assessment tools, we have well-established IT, Support, Development and QA departments with a highly sophisticated Web-based application, providing more than two million people assessments every year.  The system allows candidates to undertake a variety of assessments within a web browser, and has a series of powerful administrative functions for analysing and reporting on the information provided.

With recent private equity funding, we are looking to take the current client platform and refactor it into the market leading solution, using new technologies and innovative ideas to help grow the business exponentially.

The well-established Development teams are located in both Witney and more recently, Marlow. The successful candidate will gain the opportunity to work on our highly sophisticated suite of Web-based applications to deliver our assessments through both different devices and platforms to our global businesses.  We pride ourselves on innovation and we are looking for talented Developers to help us revolutionise our market by combining great ideas with new and emerging technologies.

This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic Senior Developer to share their skills with the team while keeping up with new technologies. These highly motivated individuals will be encouraged to continue to develop and hone their skills, try new and share new ideas and be part of the development process in a relaxed team-based environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Mentoring and training the team in development best practice
• Exploring and working with new technologies to create best in breed solutions
• Encouraging and adopting a variety of training techniques while keeping your own skills current
• Ensuring the quality of our work through PR’s and ongoing code reviews
• Contributing to the ongoing design, development and testing of existing and new products
• Execute technical projects of all sizes
• Helping to evolve the team’s working practices and development processes
• Attend and encourage attendance of industry specific events
• Bring a quality of development best practices to the business and the immediate team
• Actively participate and contribute to sprint retrospectives, ensuring and encouraging participation by the entire team 

The Job Profile suggests that the job incumbent will be required to operate in a technical, specialist or quality area of the organisation. The job requires a perfectionist who has an innate need to get things right and prefers to deal with things rather than people. Formulas, facts, logic and system are also important aspects of the position. The person fulfilling this function should have the ability to work in a steady, thorough and deliberate manner and have the persistence to see a job through to conclusion. Confrontation and unrealistic timescales should not be an important aspect of the job. Ideally the person should be conventional, co-operative, cautious, compliant, organised, predictable, methodical and routine-orientated. A questioning approach, concentration on detail and a non-assertive nature are also being called for within the position. The Job Profile implies that the job will be somewhat analytical and demand a high level of quality control.

Thomas International are the largest privately owned global provider of psychometric assessments. We empower business leaders by giving them the tools they need to develop their people, teams and culture.

At Thomas, we love what we do and know that our people are core to our business. We’ve grown a lot since our inception in 1981 but are proud to have retained our unique family feel and friendly environment. We take people development seriously and tailor our employees’ career pathway to their specific aspirations and needs, offering a variety of training both from our expert internal trainers and external providers. Whether you are UK-based or work in one of our 60 international offices, you’ll have access to learning and development opportunities that are second to none, including international secondments, coaching and mentoring, funded studying and much more.

We offer fantastic benefits to our employees such as a private GP minutes from our head office, discounted gym membership, holiday buy scheme, and a rewards portal with discounts from major retailers.

Our positive and innovative culture has won us a variety of awards/accolades. We’re looking for passionate and dedicated new faces to join us on our journey.

Sound like you? Apply today and join the Thomas family.