Description
Scala Developers required for a 6 month initial contract based in West Yorkshire.
Tasks:
- Work in cross-functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world class new and existing 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 team members in the wider HMRC digital team and across government
- Providing 'second-line' support and occasional 'on-call' support
Technologies & Technical Skills:
- Scala
- MongoDb
- Git
- Play
- Jenkins & Groovy DSL
- Excellent demonstrable commercial experience in programming and Back End software development either Scala or Java8 (Scala is the preference)
- Use and implementation of modern Front End web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON
- Experience in TDD(Test Driven Development). experience using Kibana & Splunk for debugging
- 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
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.