Description
Scala Developer - Scala Engineer - Scala
Would you be interested in working for one of the most advanced digital Agile practices in the UK?
My client, a major central government organisation are looking to bring on an Scala Developer to work for them in Leeds?
My client are looking to expand their team of outstanding developers to help the UK government build and run great digital services for the people of the UK. Candidates must have strong skills in Front End or Back End development (or both) 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.
Day-to-day you will be responsible for working with that team to design, create and improve new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.
The main responsibilities of the post are:
- Building web and mobile products to serve a variety of citizens' needs.
- Implementing API's 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 Skills
- Strong Scala experience is essential
- Experience building Server Side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least one programming language (we use a range of languages including Ruby, Python and Scala) and/or 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 Skills
- 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 API's
- Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
Scala Developer - Scala Engineer - Scala