Description
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.
Desirable
Experience of programming languages such as Scala, Python, Ruby, C#;
Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs);
Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework,
Google Guice, Spring, MVC;
Experience with open source solutions and community, including Linux system administration and configuration management skills; including Linux experience;
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit;
Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms;
Experience working on technical projects within an agile team;
Configuration management skills;
Confluence and JIRA;
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 handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage;
Understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10;
Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion.