Description
Covalent is currently transitioning between the development of its thick client hosted product and a new browser-based version. Work will be on the browser product, the thick client being phased out as we migrate functionality across. We are looking to hire a motivated developer to join the team and hit the ground running. This is a chance to join a strong team moving an existing product to the browser and adopting what new technologies make sense along the way.
Our older product is developed in Java with a Swing UI and communicates with the server over HTTP. The Web version is powered by the Play Framework, uses Twitter Bootstrap for base CSS alongside JQuery, Knockout and other JavaScript libraries on the front-end. The database is SQL Server 2005, upgrading soon to 2012.
Strong core Java SE 6+ experience is a must as is some experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS/SQL even if only on personal projects.
Work is currently divided between two scrum teams and consists of maintenance, fulfilling customer requests for functionality and developing enhancements to make the product attractive to new customers or markets and keeping us ahead of competition in existing markets.
You will be joining a Scrum team consisting around 6 members split between developers and testers. We work in fortnightly sprints and are currently deploying to production at the end of each sprint.
We have continuous integration builds that run our unit, functional tests and Selenium tests. We maintain code coverage with Cobertura and use FindBugs to uncover potential issues.
There are multiple permanent and one contract role available.
Salary:
£25k to £40k dependent on experience