Zzish (Techstars) - Back End Developer - API Design & Java

London  ‐ Onsite
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Overview

Zzish is one of the hottest new startups on the London tech scene. Backed by both the world’s leading tech accelerator, Techstars, and the government’s Technology Strategy Board, Zzish is changing the face of education with a platform to help developers build the next generation of mobile, gamified educational apps.

If you have a passion to change the world through technology, have what it takes to create mobile games that get installed by tens of millions of people and you are an entrepreneurial, self-starting, problem-solver who thrives on challenges then we want you on our team. We’re looking for enthusiastic and committed mobile, web and back end developers to join us at the London Techstars office in Warner Yard, Clerkenwell. You may have several years of experience or you may have recently graduated and be looking for your first full-time job. If you have the talent we want to hear from you!

For our software roles, you will be someone who lives and breathes coding and someone who is happy to code from dusk till dawn when in the zone and working on something really cool! You understand that problems have multiple solutions and can evaluate them to choose the best one. You also understand algorithm, 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 small team, initially within a wider program, where you are expected to take ownership and contribute at all levels.

Job

At our core we have the Zzish platform, a state-of-the-art big data backend service that lets mobile educational app developers add rich features to their apps in days instead of many months. Our own two apps sit on this platform. Factzz is our reference app, a leading multiplayer quiz game that uses social game dynamics to make learning more fun. The Zzish Learning Centre is our app for students, teachers and parents enabling them to see data and analytics from all apps on the platform in one central place.

Our goal is to provide THE platform for mobile social educational games that can be hooked into by any app developer. You will be skilled at building back end systems to maintain social graphs, recording game play events and crunching data for analysis. The ideal candidate would have the following characteristics:

* Fluent in Java and java based frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate)
* Familiar with big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Hive, NoSQL databases (such as Cassandra) and Kafka
* Familiar with source control tools such as Git and deployment tools
* Delivered the back end for one or more web applications to market.
* An advocate for good software processes including coding standards and test driven development.
* Passionate about writing software (ideally you dream in code).
* Self-starting and committed.
* Someone who can be relied upon to get things done on time and to a high degree of quality.
* First or upper second class degree in Computer Science from a respected university.

What We Offer

In return for your enthusiasm, brainpower and dedication we offer you a competitive wage based on experience, a cool working environment with the opportunity to rub shoulders with like-minded people and the opportunity to join something early that could become huge - with all the benefits that entails!

Salary:

Up to £60k DOE

Start date
ASAP
From
Hacker Jobs UK
Published at
26.03.2014
Contact person:
Steve Buckley
Project ID:
684932
Contract type
Freelance
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