Python Job: Applications Developer

Job Title: Applications Developer
Location: Homebased
Salary: up to £40,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time – Monday to Friday

About Us
Optima Health are a UK market leader in the provision of Occupational Healthcare and wellbeing services. Our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the UK workforce by supporting healthy high performance in our client organisations, helping them to achieve their full potential through their people.

We deliver comprehensive services, including absence management, fitness for task assessments, health surveillance, vocational rehabilitation, and wellness programmes, as well as a full range of diagnostics and treatments

We are a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organisation who are keen to invest in people and support them to ensure their long-term career progression. We are a company who are going places and we want you to come with us!

Role Summary

We provide safety critical services across the public and private sectors and ensuring our clients' employees are safe and well in the workplace. The work you carry out will have a direct effect on people's physical and mental wellbeing.

This role would predominately involve working with Optima Health's Appian-based occupational health portal. Appian is a powerful “low-code” platform that allows users to design & implement Business Process Management (BPM) through simplified design tools.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

As an Applications Developer you will be working as part of a talented agile team to enhance and maintain the myOHportal and supporting applications. Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Work with the Development team to support and develop our Occupational Health portal (based on Appian)
• Investigating defects affecting customers and implementing fixes.
• Develop new functionality and ensure the effective operation of the platform to support the health, wellbeing and safety of workers across the UK, including new clinical algorithms and business process integration with customer organisations.
• Developing new features and supporting the live system
• Learning/upskilling in the Appian platform (training provided)
• Working with several modern open source and proprietary technologies
• Working well within an established Agile team

Experience, skills and knowledge required for the role

• Passion for learning and using new technologies
• Competent in a range of front and back-end web technologies such as (but not necessarily all of the following): PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, AJAX, Git
• Full stack development g. Linux/Windows, Apache/Nginx, Docker
• Experience of software/web development
• Experience consuming RESTful web APIs
• Experience working in an agile environment and full involvement in the SDLC
• Ability to read and comprehend complex ideas (especially around health care)

Desirable skills

• BPM/low-code platforms (e.g. Appian, IBM PBM Pega, Filenet, Tibco, PowerApps)
• Experience using SharePoint Designer
• Working knowledge of Quality Assurance practices and technologies, e.g. Selenium/WebDriver, and different approaches to testing software
• Mobile and mobile-friendly technologies e.g. React, iOS, Android
• Experience architecting REST APIs
• Experience working with serverless technologies (AWS Lambda)
• Experience working with Azure AD integrations
• Experience using software development frameworks (e.g. Laravel, Lumen, Next, Gatsby, Express, React-static, Flask)

What We Can Offer you

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Buy and Sell Holiday Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care test vouchers
• Annual flu jabs
• Perkbox retail reward and discount scheme

Optima Health is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the role will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender or gender expression, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief or sexual orientation.

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