Scala Developer- Agile, Kanban, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming

Somerset  ‐ Onsite
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Description

We are currently working on large digital transformation project and are looking for Scala Developers to join our team.

As a Scala Developer you will

  • 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,
  • Be competent in implementing APIs using JSON and other programming languages as appropriate to ensure 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;
  • Contribute to a culture of continuous service improvement in which key systems owned by your digital service team are regularly analysed, maintained and improved;
  • Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration environment;
  • Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical teams

Essential Skills and Experience:

  • Scala, JavaScript and Linux. The candidate must have experience of agile development techniques, ie test driven development, pair programming, etc.
  • Experience building scalable, distributed web applications in Scala (or Java with a Scala personal project)
  • Good functional programming experience.
  • Experience with REST and asynchronous event driven programming.
  • Agile development experience.
  • Experience using Continuous Integration tools eg Jenkins or Hudson etc
  • 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.
  • Experience of programming languages
  • 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.
  • Scala developer with experience of delivering external facing RESTful APIs

All candidates are subject to the requirements of the Baseline Personnel Security Standard and will be required to provide appropriate documentation to verify ID, nationality, employment and/or academic history and criminal record check (unspent convictions)

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months+
(extension possible)
From
Mercator IT Solutions
Published at
05.10.2018
Project ID:
1643772
Contract type
Freelance
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