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Junior Software developer

Taunton Somerset

Accomadation 70/80 per week

Role Summary

 Our older product is developed in Java with a Swing UI and communicates with the server

over HTTP. The Web version is powered by the Pay Framework, uses Twitter Bootstrap for

base CSS alongside JQuery, knockout and other JavaScript frameworks on the front-end. The

database is SQL Server 2012.

Java SE 6+ experience is a must as is some experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS even if only

on personal projects. An interest in interface design and usability would also be desirable

along with SQL experience.

Work is currently divided between two scrum teams and consists of maintenance, fulfilling

customer requests for functionality and developing enhancements to make the product

attractive to new customers or markets and keeping us ahead of competition in existing

markets.

As a junior you will be joining a 7 person team consisting of 5 developers and 2 testers. Your

code will be reviewed by other developers (in fact everyone’s code is reviewed by each

other) and you should expect to be writing code deployed to production in your first month.

This will be a great opportunity to learn not only from some excellent software developers

but be on a project where we are adopting new technologies as we migrate to the new

browser interface. In short, it might be a challenging role but it will also help you get an

excellent grounding in the skills required for software development in a modern

development organisation. You will be joining one of two Scrum teams consisting around 6

members split between developers and testers. We work in fortnightly sprints and are

currently deploying to production at the end of each sprint.

We have continuous integration builds that run our unit, functional tests and Selenium tests.

We maintain code coverage with Cobertura and use FindBugs to uncover potential issues.

Required

Experience/

Attributes

q Some Java development experience

q Java 6 minimum

q Professional or personal experience with JavaScript/CSS/HTML

q Locally based or already planning to move to the area

Bonus Experience q Grunt

q Less

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q Experience with or an interest in UX/UI design

q SQL/T-SQL, SQL Server (ideally 2005+)

q Unit/Automated testing

q Swing experience.

Challenge C ontinually question why we do things, and why we do things the way we do. Look to change/ break the rules. Risk taking and

innovative work is encouraged –Covalent is very tolerant of mistakes made in the pursuit of doing something differently.

q A desire and willingness to embrace constant change.

q Independent, creative thinking.

q Ability to problem solve.

q A focus on tomorrow, the future, rather than the way we’ve always done things.

q Bias for action/ can do attitude but do need to be realistic, not just blindly optimistic.

Empowerment Freedom to make decisions allied to Capability to self-manage and take responsibility.

q Ability to take on responsibility; initiative and independence, without needing constant

direction and guidance.

q Strong self-discipline, don’t need to be micro-managed

q Ability to make decisions; discuss, agree and act, don’t talk it to death.

q Respect for others — employees and companies we deal with

q Commitment. Work hard, but more importantly work smart

Openness

q People who aren’t fazed by authority

q Open to constructive criticism, willing to listen and take credence of others viewpoints

Systems A culture of disciplined working. Utilises clear operating systems and procedures to nip common & known problems in the bud

so that staff can focus instead on solving the uncommon problems that come their way. The sweet spot between Robots and

Loose Cannons

q Ability to document processes and working methods to avoid wheel reinvention

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