Description
Our leading tech start up client are looking for an experienced back end developer to join their rapidly growing team. You will be part of a talented engineering team working on one of my clients most prestigious projects.
This role will also offer you the chance to continue using the latest and sexiest technology at the moment - Scala, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra and more and also be part of a rapidly growing company destined to be the next big web story!
What kind of person my clients needs -
You will be flexible and pragmatic with a positive “can do” attitude to delivering product to expected timelines, but you will also recognise the importance of good design, thorough QA and regular refactoring and code improvement. You are a great coder who enjoys challenging technical problems. You understand that problems have multiple solutions and you can evaluate them and choose the best one. You understand algorithms and code efficiency and can optimise your code for performance. You are able and willing to learn new technologies and approaches rapidly. Finally, you will enjoy working in a company where you are expected to take ownership and contribute at all levels.
Essential experience:
- Java/Scala and PHP
- Object-oriented programming
- MySQL
- Unit testing
- Source control (e.g. Git or Subversion)
- Experience from a start-up or a personal web project
Preferred experience:
- Apache Hadoop and Apache Hive
- Redis and Memcache
- NoSQL databases, especially Cassandra
- Jira, Jenkins, Fabric or other deployment tools
- Good understanding or algorithms and algorithmic complexity
- High-traffic optimisation and scaling techniques
- Front-end coding: HTML, CSS, JS
If you are a Software Engineer looking to join a outfit at the top of their game or looking to take your career to the next level then please get in touch - John Ross ., and please submit your resume by clicking apply below.