JOB DESCRIPTION

• Work within a team of 3 - 6 people with a dedicated product owner. Most teams are in a single location, but it can be geographically dispersed.
• Take ownership of delivery of business requirements. Divide requirements into chunks of value and deliver iteratively to production.
• Work with the Product owner to understand and challenge the requirements.
• Production support is integral to the role - we have a saying, “the team builds it, the team supports it”.
• Willingness to learn multiple programming languages.
• Able to adapt to working in different roles and on different technologies.
• Identify areas of technical debt, ensure a healthy balance of tech debt and new functionality is prioritized and worked on.
• Pairing with other members of the team to work on tasks and help others as well.
• Writing blogs and stories to share what they have done.
• Actively involved where applicable in Production governance Monitoring Risk & Control Support.
• Look for opportunities for automation and developing tools for wider use across the team
• Encouraging a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and ability to learn with minimal supervision under pressure.

ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Expertise and demonstratable experience in a technical area such as: Java, Databases, Concurrency, JMS, JavaScript, Clojure, CSS. We predominantly use Java, JavaScript (client & server), Python, HTML5 and PostgreSQL for databases.
• Working knowledge of Unix.
• Knowledge of HTTP APIs e.g. RESTful APIs.
• Experience in Machine learning, NLP, AI, Data Science is an advantage.
• Good to have Mongo DB, GCP (Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Compute Engine) , S3 and Parquet file handling experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and decision-making skill required.
• Fully test implemented solutions including writing Unit tests, in advance of User Acceptance Testing.