Working closely with the Senior Architect, you will be working on our custom built CMS and framework that powers some of the largest news and entertainment brands in the UK and USA.
We are looking for someone to hit the ground running and come into the role with an enthusiastic approach to gaining an understanding of the code and the detail involved. This person must be self motivated with an interest in continuing the development of a high performance, scalable system.
You will be working alongside an international team of Developers and Architects working on infrastructure and product to help ship code that is efficient, reusable and easily adapted to new purposes. Occasional trips to our New York office are available.
You will have the opportunity to work with a number of technologies such as Memcached, Varnish, Sphinx Search, Elastic Search and Node JS. Our primary infrastructure is hosted in the cloud on AWS where we utilise products such as EC2, S3, ELB, RDS and CloudFront.
Ability to identify solutions and opportunities to improve, develop and design software is essential in this role.
Essential Attributes and Skills
An ability to think outside the box and convert technical knowledge and passion into workable, efficient, scalable solutions
An ability to debug issues in complex code systems quickly
Effective verbal and written English communication skills, and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse team, some of whom work remotely
Please note this is a UK based job and a valid UK Working Permit is needed prior to application