As a Software
Engineer, you will be working within our agile development team and be involved
throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll be involved in all
aspects of the team including the creation and elaboration of business
requirements, functional/design specifications, development and maintenance of
our software and driving innovation into our product suite.
Work as part of
multicultural, cross functional, passionate agile (SCRUM) team. Ensuring high
quality delivery is at the heart of the development process from requirements
definition through to delivery.
Supporting the
technical design process by participating in the analysis of technical
application requirements and implementing the technical infrastructure.
Assisting in the
integration of technical and application components.
Coding and
testing program modules; assisting in design.
Maintaining,
tuning and repairing applications and/or modules; providing user support.
Participating in
execution and documentation of tests.
Additional
responsibilities
Documenting
possible improvements; identifying disruptions in the processes.
Research,
recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of continually increasing
our development productivity.
Proactively
bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team; generating,
proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them.
Be an advocate
of automation, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous
Delivery and use experiences to support the teams in these areas also.
Maintain
exceptionally high standards of design and code quality at all times, including
but not limited to adherence to architectural, security and scalability
standards and principles practiced at Edanz Development team.
Desired Competencies/Experiences
4+ years of
proven recent experience on building internet applications using PHP within an
Agile environment with following skills
Test/Behavior
driven software development.
Front end
development using JavaScript and JS frameworks (jQuery required, Angular, React
preferred, experience on any other js framework is an advantage)
SQL and nosql
databases. (MySQL required, MongoDB preferred)
HTML5/CSS3 -
advanced knowledge.
Strong
demonstrable experience of Object Oriented Analysis & Design and
accompanying design patterns with a commitment to Software Craftsmanship and
Clean Code.
Experience of
working with a wide variety of open source CMS and frameworks such as (Drupal
and Wordpress is required, others are advantages.)
Experience of
working with testing tools (e.g.: selenium) and frameworks (PHPUnit)
Ability to work
with Distributed Version Control Systems such as GIT (required)
Solid scripting
skills (e.g., shell scripts, python) - preferred
Excellent
English communication skills (written & verbal). Adapts communication style
for junior engineers, senior engineers and senior management alike.
Proactive
'self-starter' attitude and A creative, innovative and inquisitive character.
Willing to experiment
with many ideas and showcase the output with peers and the wider teams.
Lifelong learner
- thrives from developing and sharing knowledge.
Uncomfortable
with repetition seeking automation in preference.
Advantages
Experience on
VPS, Web Servers (Apache and Nginx).
Experience of
networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components and
their application to cloud (AWS) environments.
Education
qualifications
Ideal academic
level preferred
B.Sc./M.Sc.
degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject - or equivalent work
experience.
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