Senior Front End Developer - UK’s largest Coffee Chain

If you enjoy a good coffee in the morning, you will find this opportunity to be an interesting one.

Our client, one of the largest coffee chains in the UK (if you guess 3 companies, chances are you’ll get it), is currently going through a substantial digital transformation process and they are looking to hire a Senior Java Developer.

It is a greenfield project for which they are seeking top tier professionals. The CIO is largely ambitious and is changing entire internal infrastructure to make the organisation one of the most forward thinking digital companies in the UK. They have tasked us to find the most driven and ambitious individuals.

As stated above, they are looking to hire the best people and hence are prepared to meet your salary expectations for a move and offer great benefits.

Skills & Requirements for Senior Java Developer

• Delivers across the entire product life cycle – concept, design, build (code), deploy, test, release and automation


• Performs code/peer reviews within the team and across teams


• Develops and extends the reach of existing digital applications, while helping to identify opportunities for future product roadmaps


• Collaborates with PO and development team to deliver inspirational products and continues to optimise performance post release


• Develops functional solutions in accordance to architecture design and coding standards


• Creates and maintains a robust technical framework to support the products


• Creates compelling device specific user interfaces and experiences across our client’s multiple brands with minimal duplication of effort


• Keeps up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares thoughts amongst Development Centre of Excellence on standards / tools / technologies / trends


• Provides support on key products should there be an incident / problem related to a product that’s now live and requires a development fix


• Works as part of a scrum team and may act as the scrum master as required:
  
  • Supporting the relevant scrum events; planning / user story estimation, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/ demos & retros
  
  
  • Supports / collaborates with the team and takes ownership of driving forward relevant stories (updating the ticket on the Kanban board & Jira)
  
  
  • Jointly responsible with the team for converting the Product backlog into ‘Done’ potentially releasable increments
  
  
  • Acts as a mentor / coach to product team members / developers on areas of expertise
  
  
  • Recognises and influences key stakeholders to manage: adapts conversations according to level of technical understanding
  
  

Essential skills/experience for Senior Java Developer

• Solid experience of developing online or multi-channel transactional applications


• Strong software craftsmanship background


• Good experience of development automation tools – test, build and release.


• Scrum experience of working within a continuous and iterative delivery cycle


• Languages / Tools for the Front End developer: Javascript, HTML5, CSS, AngularJS


• Strong communication skills recognising and influencing the key stakeholders to manage

If you are interested in the Senior Java Developer position please apply asap.