Salary: 30000 - £50000/annum
Category: IT
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire
Posted on: 22/02/2010

Software Engineer



About the company



Our client is an successful and rapidly growing ecommerce site for cycle and triathlon goods, with significant volumes of international sales. The business is based near Portsmouth.

They are making a change to their IT infrastructure in 2010, and are looking for a number of engineers to join the business.



Their technology is mostly built in-house, with.NET 3.5 with SQL Server 2005. The company has 11 IT staff.



Rather than asking for a particular number of years in any given technology, they are looking to find highly intelligent candidates with a range of experience.



With all this in mind they are looking for a software engineer to join the team



Experience

• Agile software development methodology (XP, Scrum, etc.)

• Object oriented design

• Heterogeneous platform architecture

• Design patterns (not just MVC)

• .NET 2 or newer

• At least one other development language: Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.

• AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies

• Best practise tools for .NET: NHibernate and others

• RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL, ideally two of them)

• Design & build of ecommerce systems

• Web hosting and delivery

• Linux

• Integration with and migration from legacy systems

• Bonus points for WMS, MMS, BI, ERP

• Bonus points for SOA, ORM, ESB, OODBMS, Memcache, CDN

• Bonus points for Open Source contribution

Skills

• Plenty of initiative and ability to work in high change environments

• Excellent written and verbal communication (to technical and business)

• Strong team and mentoring skills, collaboration and delegation

• Good planning and estimating

• Able to cope with many different projects and initiatives simultaneously, and to deliver under pressure



Character

• Very smart

• Motivated by difficult challenges

• Desire to be the best and build the best team

• Passionate about software engineering, web or web 2.0, ecommerce, or agile

• Active with technology and the web outside work

• Thrives in less formal environments

• Interest for cycling or triathlon an advantage



If you are interested in this role then please contact Laura at Vane Recruitment

Job Reference: 113419405
Contact Details: Vane Recruitment Ltd