Scala Developer

Scala Software Developer As a Scala Software Developer, you will sit at the heart of the transformation of our services and will ensure that our clients can become a 'Digital by Default' organisation. Using agile methods, you will be involved in all elements of development, with a relentless focus on how the service will be used. You will be involved in service design, code build, test, maintenance and support. We need a team of flexible, skilled developers with a love of web technology to realise our digital objectives. Responsibilities: Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well-defined user needs. Participate in the rapid development of user-driven Digital prototypes; Building prototypes, writing tests, codes and documentations, implementing RESTful APIs, JSON ensuring continuous integration, Work in cross-functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world-class new and existing systems; Implement RESTful APIs for integration with internal and external 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; Become involved in the wider web development community, building relationships with other developers and identifying best practices we can adopt; Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in the wider digital team and across government; Providing 'second-line' support and occasional 'on-call' support. Skills and Experience: Essential: Excellent demonstrable commercial experience in programming and back-end software development with either Scala or Java - Scala is the preference, but we will train have the means to train strong Java Developers in the Scala language; Use and implementation of modern front-end web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON; 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 systems. Desirable: Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially HTTP REST-based APIs); Experience with web frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Play Framework, Google Guice, Spring, MVC; Experience with open source solutions and community, including Linux system administration and configuration management skills; including Linux experience; Experience with automated testing and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, junit; Experience using and deploying on cloud based platforms; Experience working on technical projects within an agile team; Configuration management skills; Confluence and JIRA; Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences; Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites; Understanding of the use of responsive web design; Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage; Understanding of web security best practices and security application design, such as OWASP top 10; Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion. Competences: Collaborating and Partnering Making Effective Decisions Delivering at Pace This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/86335512