Yell is hiring: Developer (Search)
Reference: 00931
Role: Information Services
Location: Reading
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Permanent Corporate
Resourcing Consultant: Libby Dineley
Job Description:
In a business-focused agile environment, implement, integrate and maintain new services, products and features in the New Media Technology team at Yell, working primarily on the yell.com site, its supporting technologies, related products and services, and the needs of internal & external customers.
Contribute advanced development, approaches, capabilities and architecture, acting as a strong Individual Contributor.
Role Responsibilities:
• Design, plan, develop, deploy and maintain working software in a fast-paced environment using agile methods and iterative delivery of business value
• Participate in a scrum team dedicated to a task such as online mapping, mobile support, content acquisition and management, and/or search development
• Contribute to the success of the scrum team even if a particular task might exceed the requirements of a strict role definition
• Reliably use the latest development technologies and suites to quickly produce and deploy software, and show others how
• Design, develop, deploy and maintain New Media advertising and lead generation products and services on a large-scale website
• Quickly and reliably use Java, XML and web services
• Build and deploy for SOA and SAAS-based production environments
Role Requirements:
Essential
• Commitment to timely achievement of business goals with high technical excellence
• Strong background in successful agile development
• Strong team player
• Learn quickly, take directed goals and act independently, assist others
• Willingness to complete a task even if the boundaries go beyond prior expectations; willingness contribute in new ways
Desirable
• Online advertising environment experience
Qualifications:
Essential
• Expert in Java, XML, XPath, XQuery, feeds, web services, website architecture, Apache, Tomcat, Linux
• Expert with open source libraries and frameworks such as spring & the apache libraries
• Expert in agile and iterative development methodologies, fast business capability turn-around
• Experience with test driven development; experience with Selenium / JBehave a plus; experience with the automated testing of XML-based web services is desirable
• Desirable
• Experience with writing and deploying highly scalable server-side components
• Applicants with development experience in the areas of search engines and information retrieval will be at a particular advantage.
• Familiarity with either Oracle or MySQL in the context of using JDBC and Hibernate or a similar persistence framework
• Familiar with JSPs, Taglibs, XPath, Ajax
• Prior experience with map APIs / SDKs
To apply please visit: http://joberate.com/redirect/url/088...2-4c0b4495a859
