Description
The Role
We are seeking talented and self-motivated Full-Stack Web Developers at all levels with skills in Java/JVM and Front End web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. You will be joining a new and fast-growing agile team in our Camden offices in London to help design and build a high volume, high availability and high performance web site. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in changing the way that web products are delivered within the company, devising and implementing a modern approach to software engineering that enables continuous delivery and releasing features on-demand. You will be part of a cross-functional product development group using agile management and engineering practices.
Key Tasks
- Work as part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional, agile product development team to develop a new responsive web application from the ground up
- Website development in Java and Front End technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
- Building a nimble, cloud-based JVM distributed architecture
- Integrate with wider enterprise systems using service oriented architecture
- Develop automated tests
- Peer review other developers' code
- Work with Product Managers and QA to ensure software is high quality and meets user requirements
- Produce any necessary documentation
- Help to grow the London teams by assisting with the recruitment of other developers and team members
- Support the live site as required
Skills/Experience
- Web development on the JVM using Java and possibly other JVM languages
- MVC framework experience with Play! or similar
- Web service development using frameworks such as Dropwizard, Scalatra, Hysterix or similar
- Front End development skill including HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
- XML technologies and familiarity with XSL transforms
- Instrumentation of web applications for fine-grained monitoring using New Relic or similar
- Agile experience with Scrum/Kanban/XP
- Experience with agile engineering practices such as TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, automated testing and deployment
- A positive, constructive approach with an emphasis on collaboration and good execution