United Kingdom

Jones Agyemang

Snr Software Developer

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

I know enough HTML to be dangerous; along with the following technologies. 

Tech Stack:
  - Kotlin
  - Neo4J + Cypher
  - React JS
  - Cypress JS
  - Ruby
  - Typescript

Technologies and Tools
  - Kubernetes
  - AWS
  - Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS)
  - Terraform
  - Oauth 2.0
  - Prometheus 
  - Graphana
  - Kibana
  - Docker
  - GoCD
  - Kaniko
  - Openshift 
  - Cucumber 
  - Gherkin

Main Role: Design, test maintain and build web applications using Ruby on Rails. 

Key Responsibilities 
•	Being involved in the wider web development community
•	Identifying industry practices to be adopted by the Stowga and sharing experiences.
•	Developing and testing for cross-browser and device compatibility.
•	Work with the development team to implement new ideas

Key Experience:
•	Solid programming experience in Ruby/Ruby-on-Rails 	
•	Knowledge of development patterns and practice such as Object-Oriented Programming.
•	Object-oriented design
•	Experience working as part of an agile team, including paired-programming.
•	Solid XP skills – continuous integration/deployment, test-driven development.
•	Knowledge of website accessibility guidelines and data protection practices.
•	Experience working in a highly professional manner.
•	Good communication skills.
•	Excellent organisational skills.
•	Strong attention to detail and accuracy

Main Job Purpose: To design and develop web applications across the full project life cycle as part of a cross-discipline team in an agile environment. 

Key Responsibilities:
•	Designing and building web and mobile products. 
•	Designing and implementing APIs for internal and external use.
•	Training and mentoring new developers. 
•	Being involved in the wider web development community
•	Identifying good practices to be adopted by the Money Advice Service and sharing experiences.
•	Developing and testing for cross-browser and device compatibility.
•	Work with the development team colleagues to effectively integrate the presentation tier with the application and resource tiers. 
•	Maintaining and sharing knowledge of:
   -- emerging technologies, 
   -- trends and standards, 
   -- browser capabilities, 
   -- security standard,
   -- standards compliance (i.e. W3C etc.), 
   -- and accessibility issues

Key Experience:
•	Solid programming experience in Ruby on Rails 	
•	Knowledge of development patterns and practice such as Object-Oriented Programming.
•	Some web experience – HTML/Javascript/CSS (desirable not essential). 
•	Object-oriented design skills.
•	Experience working as part of an agile team, including paired programming.
•	Solid XP skills – continuous integration/deployment, test-driven development.
•	Knowledge of website accessibility guidelines and data protection practices.
•	Experience working directly with stakeholders in a highly professional manner.
•	Good communication skills.
•	Excellent organisational skills.
•	Strong attention to detail and accuracy

DevOps:
  - Puppet
  - Continuous Deployment
  - Go Pipeline

Drive Ruby on Rails web application lifecycle - concept, design, test, build, deploy, release, maintenance. 

About BigSofa
Create conversational film, video blogs and/or behavioural film to gain insight from consumers, customers, citizens, employees, distributors, partners and leaders.

Currently taking on iOS projects. Soon as I see out a few projects I may have to start hiring other top talents to join us

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