Software developers
Product development engineer
Excellent salary and benefits package
Based in Reading
The role holder will be responsible for undertaking analysis, design and development tasks for the creation and enhancement of new media products in line with departmental quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Analyse, design and document new products and/or enhancements to agreed specifications and standards;
- Create and amend programs in accordance with the design to meet the Statement of Requirements (SOR);
- Create and action test plans to ensure programs are error free;
- Conduct and participate in reviews of own and others work to ensure the sharing of technical best practice;
- Provide guidance and assistance to colleagues on program design, creation, testing and documentation to support best practice of the team;
- Evaluate and review program methods, tools and standards to promote best practice;
- Liase with other external and internal teams, e.g. Design team and Systems, to ensure awareness of product enabling compatibility and co-ordination of effort;
- Take responsibility for self-development for the achievement of personal and departmental objectives.
Required skills:
- In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle and of web application development;
- Use and knowledge of Java and of servlet- or struts-based development;
- Experience with JDBC and relational databases required—Oracle experience is advantageous;
- Use and knowledge of one or more of the following is required: Unix, XML, UML;
- While not a requirement, applicants with development experience in the areas of search engines and information retrieval will be at a particular advantage;
- EJB development experience is advantageous, as is experience with one or more of the following platforms: Apache, the Resin application server, JBoss
- Experience with open source libraries and frameworks, e.g. lucene, hibernate or others from the Apache Software Foundation is a plus.
If you are interested in applying for either of these roles please e-mail your CV to Yell.