giffgaff - Agile Developers

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Telefonica is on a truly inspirational adventure. As one of the world’s most innovative communication companies and the name behind flagship brands such as O2, we’re thinking bigger than ever before. We’re taking on new challenges around the world and exploring new ways to open up the world for our millions of customers. And you could be part of it all.

About the Team

giffgaff is a little different to your `normal` telecoms company. It`s a mobile business owned by Telefonica, but is run by its members. Sounds interesting? It is.

We want people to love what they do and love what giffgaff is all about. It`s important to feel that way, especially in this energetic and competitive market. Us folk at giffgaff are a spirited and disruptive bunch, not every now and then, but every day, yes, even on Monday mornings. Each and every person, who comes and works at giffgaff must believe that we are a David amongst Goliaths in Mobile-land. And much like David, we are successfully making a positive change. This is a chance to work for one of the most sought after UK companies highly regarded for its community model and ability to do things differently.

Your Role

We are looking for agile software developers with passion and energy, a strong desire to learn and improve and a commitment to testing and excellence. You’ll have to make tough decisions, implement best practice and provide compromises when situations are not ideal.

Oh and you’ll need to explain that to people. Not just the technical ones. Because we work in product teams where not everyone is a tech guy. It’s fun, you get closer to the business and know more about why we do what we do, not just how.

Responsibilities

You’re passionate about giffgaff and about our members, right? So you’ll want to make sure your code is good by testing it thoroughly before releaseYou’ll also want to release and deploy it as soon as possible and get feedback, so you’ll want to make sure that the process is as lean as it can possibly be and change it when it isn’tWe imagine you probably want to make sure that those around you are doing their best too, so you’ll help them when they need it or when you spot something that could be improvedYou might have just come out of uni, or you might have been coding since it was done on tapes (and no, we mean even before C15s)

Demonstrable Experience

You have a strong desire to deliver quality software with a collaborative attitude and lean mindsetYou’ve probably used some kind of agile or lean methodology-we’d love to hear about your experience with it, whatever it may be.And let’s talk tech! Is Java a coffee choice or a way of life? Ever built something cool in PHP or AngularJS? Do you like fixed infrastructure that stays in one place or the flexibility of the cloud, be that AWS or another flavour? Are you structured and enterprise in your database choices or is there NoSQL in your storage cannon?And how do you like to build your software? We like to test first, but we’re still getting better at it. Ever worn an "I broke the build hat"? We try not to break the build, no one likes hats. We do put our code in GitHub though-we don’t want to lose itStrong API knowledge and experience, message queues and workflow engines, Linux knowledge and scripting, or something that puts all of this to technical shame, you’ll want to get involved, share it and learn together.

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