Description
Our client wants to expand their team of outstanding developers to help build and run great digital services. Candidates must have strong skills in web development (Scala) and be ready to quickly get to work within a multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, editors, analysts focussed on one or more products or projects.
The main responsibilities of the post are:
- Building web and mobile products to serve a variety of customer needs.
- Implementing APIs for internal and external use.
- Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a Continuous Deployment environment.
- Being involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers
- Taking part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours
Essential
- Experience building Server Side web applications In Scala a detailed understanding and experience of Front End web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Experience working on technical projects within a team
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
- Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as subversion or git
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
Desirable
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
- System administration and configuration management skills
- Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences
- Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites
- Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design
- Experience of working with JavaScript libraries to produce data visualizations
- Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage