What were looking for
Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.
Mercator is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking?Scala Developer with excellent communication skills who can help Mercator in its continued transformation. You will be open-minded, happy to work on your own or as part of a team and want to learn new technologies and promote best practice.
Mercator Scala Developers work collaboratively in multi disciplinary agile scrum teams to develop, modify and maintain user interfaces for new digital services. Using agile methods, you will work closely with other members of the scrum team throughout the development cycle in order to design, build, test, maintain and support the new digital services.
As a Scala Developer you will :
Build, deploy and operate outstanding digital services within an agile environment that meet well defined user needs
Deliver application designs that meet web standards, ensuring that key elements are built in from the outset
Collaborate with design specialists to translate designs into high quality websites, apps, html emails, and interactive experiences
Contribute to the development and continual enhancement of products
Partner with product managers, design specialists, business analysts and software developers to facilitate a consistent user experience
Participate in the rapid development of user driven digital prototypes
Work in cross functional teams to write and test production quality, sustainable code for world-class user interfaces for new and existing systems
Ensure that new and updated digital services are thoroughly tested for accessibility and can be maintained and improved over the long term
Provide mentorship and/or line management for more junior front end developers where necessary
Contribute to a culture of continual 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 (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other front end developers and identifying best practices that we can adopt
Share knowledge of tools and techniques with technical and non-technical team members in Mercator
K nowledge/experience
You will need:
Scala/Play development skills
Experience of agile development techniques, test driven development (TDD) and paired programming, etc.
Experience building scalable, distributed web applications in Scala (Java with Scala experience gained in personal projects may be considered)
Experience of working with Microservices
Experience with REST and asynchronous event driven programming
Demonstrable experience in using automated testing solutions
Problem solving skills: you will be able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to reach a solution
Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Any knowledge of MongoDB or working with large datasets would be useful but is not essential
Knowledge of the use of version control systems, such as git
Experience implementing RESTful APIs for integration with internal and external systems
*Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and the ability to pass BPSS vetting
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