Software Developers (Java)

• Excellent object-oriented programming skills in Java
• Commercial experience with the software development lifecycle including: requirements definition, specification capture, software architecture/design, program development, associated documentation, test automation and maintenance
• Experience with typical industry tools including: office software, standard libraries and frameworks, interactive development environments, software version control, build systems, automated testing frameworks and bug tracking systems.
• e.g. GCC, Eclipse, Visual Studio, SCons, JUnit, GoogleTest, Mockito, Mercurial, Bugzilla, MediaWiki, Microsoft Office, Google Apps
• Good oral and written communication skills
• An energetic, enthusiastic, pro-active, problem-solving attitude. Gets things done.
• The ability to work in a close-knit, highly intelligent team
• Good degree or postgraduate qualification from a top university in a numerate discipline

We would also expect successful candidates to have at least some of the following attributes:

• Cross platform development experience on Linux and Windows
• Good knowledge of other programming languages
  • e.g. C, JavaScript, Python, or Perl
• Experience of one or more of the following: application servers, database internals, data visualization, distributed systems, document processing, content repositories, full-text search, grid computing, information retrieval, natural language processing, semantic web, text mining, user interface design or web services
  • e.g. JBoss, Spring, HSQLDB, SharePoint, XML, Documentum, Lucene, Hadoop, RDF, SPARQL, TF-IDF, LSI, Swing, Ajax, REST, Jetty
• Good understanding of modern development techniques and practices
  • e.g. design patterns, agile development, test-driven development