Junior .Net Developer London Bridge – Suberb opportunity to work for award winning e

Software Engineer (London or Portsmouth)

We are recruiting for a fantastic award winning ecommerce business with offices in London and Portsmouth. You will need to be an enthusiastic Software engineering, computer science, or Maths/Physics graduate with a passion and understanding of development in .Net framework

To you development will come naturally to you, and you will actively be completing your own projects and tasks. If you are a straight graduate this is great, if you have up to two years experience this is also fantastic.
Amongst other practises, they use Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Integration, and actively review and tune their Agile process.

They are looking to recruit passionate and engaged software engineers. Rather than asking for a particular number of years with any given technology, or any specific academic credentials, we’re looking to find highly intelligent candidates with a range of experience from undergraduate to senior.

Primary responsibilities

·                      Working with business stakeholders to identify business needs and spike and build solutions

·                      Test-first software development in C#

·                      Support and maintenance of business applications

·                      Driving further acceptance and use of Agile, Open Source, and “clever” technology, including AJAX and social networking

·                      Software Engineers at Wiggle are responsible for the full SDLC of all software systems in the company.

Experience

·                      Agile software development methodology (XP, Scrum, etc.)

·                      Object oriented design, design patterns (not just MVC!)

·                      Heterogeneous platform architecture or service/message bus

·                      .NET 2 or newer, best practise tools: NHibernate etc.

·                       RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ideally two of them)

·                      Design build of ecommerce systems - ideal but not essential

·                      Integration with and migration from legacy systems - ideal but not essentail

·                      Bonus points for Linux

·                      Bonus points for detailed experience with ecommerce subsystems: ERP, WMS, BI, MMS, etc. or some of the systems in use: SOA, OODBMS, memcached, CDN/DSA

·                      Bonus points for Open Source contribution

Characteristics of the right individual

·                      Hands-on code, web or Agile fanatic, able to demonstrate a real passion for software development -- in and outside work -- rather than just talking about it.

·                      Strong understanding of benefits and value of Open and Linux platforms, but sympathy to pragmatic implications of inheriting a broad Microsoft stack.

·                      Motivated and enthused by difficulty challenge, coupled with a strong competitive nature to excel and be the best.

·                       The candidate may not hold an equivalent position currently – but might be ready to step up

·                      Strong written and verbal communication skills, mentoring (as appropriate), collaboration, planning estimating

·                      Demonstrably driven and self-motivated in high-change environments At least one other development language: Java, Ruby,            Python, PHP, etc. (ideal but not essential)

· AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies

 

·                      Bonus points for cycling or triathlon interest

If you think this role is suitable, send your CV now as we are actively recruiting on this asap