Tasks:

• working on improving a large, high speed internet based system key to our business
• technical leadership and mentoring for the rest of the development team
• ensuring that tools and processes which are needed to ensure system quality are in place whilst those tools or processes which are getting in the way of delivering high quality code as quickly as reasonable are identified and replaced or removed
• leading refactoring efforts, proposing, analyzing and vetting architectural changes, code reviews and transferring knowledge to team members
• supporting the Project Manager and operations team in developing plans to improve existing functionality and deploy new functions

 Job requirements:

• experience of working in large / high capacity / very high transaction rate / highly efficient systems
• very good knowledge of Java programming
• at least five years experience working on Java systems with at least three on large systems
• at least two years experience in C programming
• at least one year experience working in Agile development environment
• knowledge of REST interfaces, Big Data
• well experienced in code refactoring
• TDD and/or BDD experience
• success working with at least one alternative JVM language (Scala / Clojure / Jython, etc.)
• some experience of working with open source or public IaaS technologies (Amazon / Eucalyptus / OpenStack, etc.)
• knowledge of script languages (Python, Perl, Bash)

 Good to have skills:

• PaaS experience
• NoSQL databases
• Hadoop / MapReduce

 Benefits offered:

• attractive sallary
• flexible working hours
• possibility to partially work at home