Software Engineer – London Bridge. Award winning e-commerce business

Software Engineer (London or Portsmouth)

The team are enthusiastic developers who enjoy what they do. Amongst other practises, they use Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Integration, and actively review and tune the Agile process.

We 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. So whatever level you are up to in your career, this could be a fantastic opportunity.

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 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.

·                      At least one other development language: Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.(ideal but not essential)

·                      AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies (ideal(

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

·                      Design build of ecommerce systems – ideal but any background is considered

·                      Integration with and migration from legacy systems

·                      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.

·                      Good degree -- if one was obtained

·                      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

·                      Bonus points for cycling or triathlon interest

Our client is based in London Bridge and also has offices in Portsmouth, you can be based out of either

•          have estimated 15% share of  UK online  market – No.1

•          is estimated 7% Share of Worldwide online market  - No.2...... And No.1 focused on Road and Tri-athlon goods

•          Over 500 Brands across Cycling, Run and Swim sports

•          Over 67,000sq ft warehouse space

•          Over £20m of stock 30,000 plus SKU’s

•          200+ staff employed

•          220k+ product reviews on site growing at 5k+ per month.

•          7 different payment methods – tailored to suit customer needs internationally

•          Responding to over 35k customer service e-mails p/m, in 7 languages

This is a super opportunity to start your career with an award winning e-commerce market leader. Apply now