Description
A Government Department client of ours are recruiting for a Scala Developer to join them on a contract basis to work in cross-functional teams as they develop world class new and existing systems.
Main duties include;
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
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 digital team and across government
Technologies & Technical Skills required include;
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