Description
My client are looking for a team of talented and motivated Scala professionals who can work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary agile scrum teams to develop outstanding software that exceeds customer expectations. As a Scala professional, you will sit at the heart of the transformation of our clients services and will ensure that they can become a Digital by Default' organisation. Using agile methods, you will be involved in all elements of the SDLC, with a relentless focus on how the service will be used. You will be involved in service design, code build, test, maintenance and support. We need a team of flexible, skilled developers, architects, scrum masters and content designers with a love of web technology to realise our digital objectives.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well-defined user needs. Participate in the rapid development of user-driven Digital prototypes;
- Building prototypes, writing tests, codes and documentations, implementing RESTful APIs, JSON ensuring continuous integration,
- Work in cross-functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world-class new and existing systems;
- Implement RESTful APIs for integration with internal and external systems;
- Ensure that new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for performance and are able to handle specified load;
- Collaborate with all Scrum Team and Delivery Centre colleagues, providing feedback on more junior/apprenticeship developers where necessary;
Essential
- Excellent demonstrable commercial experience in programming and Back End software development with either Scala, Java, C#, Python or Ruby;
- Use and implementation of modern Front End web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON;
- Good understanding of web/agile technologies & protocols;
- Demonstrable experience in automated testing solutions;
- Proven problem solving skills: able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to solve;
- Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
- Proven ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques;
- Demonstrable knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.