Developer

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The successful candidate will be working within a relatively small established project team with a product owner, project manager, technical assurance/lead, business analysts and a front end developer.

1. The resource should also be comfortable working using an agile approach including developing user stories from prioritised backlogs, sprints, daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives.

2. Be comfortable talking to non-technical staff and translating their requirements into technical terms.

Be a good listener.

3. Where appropriate be innovative and propose changes to processes.

4. We would like to be able to send the specialist unaccompanied to meet technical and non-technical staff.

Skills and experience

Essential:

*Demonstrable experience of Agile development working within a CI environment that includes: GIT, Spray Framework, Scala, Akka Engine, Node.js, Express Web service, Java, JSON, RabbitMQ, RESTful web services.

*5+ years working with multi-disciplinary agile team to deliver transactional software against user stories.

*5+ years experience designing and building products using open source technologies.

*5+ years experience as a practicing back end developer.

Nice-to-have skills and experience:

*Familiar with the following technologies: HTML, JavaScript, React Framework, Redis Store

*Familiar with GDS design principles and developing an existing digital service

*Experience of developing document upload functions

*Experience of supporting Non Functional Tests including Performance Tests in a CI environment.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.