Red Eagle Recruitment (AGY) are looking to recruit a Senior Full Stack Developer on a Permanent Basis, for our highly respected and prestigious client based in the Heart of London. To apply for this great opportunity please send an up to date CV outlining your experiences which are relevant to this position.

NB: There is a business need for this role to be a Permanent and not Contracted.

You will work in small cross-functional teams using a range of tools – we have a philosophy of using the right tool for the right job here rather than strict adherence to standards. We are migrating from Java towards NodeJS and Clojure. We favour lightweight tools and libraries over frameworks. Our teams share ownership of the design through to the delivery of the products.

We believe that you will perform best having freedom and involvement in the in the design of the solutions. We prototype and experiment with new technologies and we use peer review to ensure the solution is maintainable.

You will be actively encouraged to learn the new skills and you will quickly see the value of your contribution with millions of people visiting our website – all our developers find it very satisfying.

We will support you and provide training when you want to change the team or the project. The wide variety of projects we have will allow advancing your career within the company.

We support open source software development and our developers created quite a few open source libraries, some of which are widely used outside of our organisation:

What are we looking for?

You are passionate about technology and building great things
You can think independently and critically
You thrive in a cross-functional environment
You take ownership and responsibility.
You make decisions but are not foolhardy
You ask questions and can take advice
You’re a self learner and keen to teach others
You are pragmatic and prefer simple solutions
What experience do you have?

You will have an excellent knowledge and commercial experience working at a master level using client side JavaScript, CSS, HTML(5) and JS libraries. Any backend development is very desirable, especially with Node.js or Clojure. See the details on the next page.
A public GitHub profile would really help us get a feel for what you’re all about.

What's the package?

Very competitive salary that is negotiable based on your experience.
Other perks such as a free onsite gym, employee discounts and a highly subsidised restaurant.
You’ll be working in the heart of the City, that is great for shops, bars and restaurants, with Hyde Park where we often go for lunch just a stone’s throw away.
Great equipment, we won’t scrimp on the tools you need to do your job, and you can even bring your own if you prefer.
You’ll have the opportunity to specialise in areas that appeal to you, or remain a generalist if that floats your boat.
You will have access to training days, e-learning courses and conferences.
5 weeks annual leave.
Contributory pension scheme after probation period.
Season ticket loan.

What are the opportunities we can offer?

You’ll be the part of an internationally global brand – it will allow your CV to stand out to prospective employees.
You will work on cutting edge web and mobile technologies in friendly multi- disciplinary agile teams using the latest open source tools and gain experience through pairing, automation, TDD and bleeding-edge agile practices
You will have a great social network, gain invaluable experience from the field of your choice, learn new skills and develop expert knowledge at one of the most exciting media companies in London.

Technical skills

JavaScript

Excellent understanding and large experience of using JavaScript language, including the following:

functions and closures
inheritance model and sub-classes
scope model
type coercions
methods of core classes (Function, Array, Object, Date, Math…)
regular expressions
Promises and generators
ES6 language features
Client-side

Excellent knowledge of DOM APIs

Nodes and elements
DOM tree traversal and events model
HTML5 DOM APIs (local storage, history, etc.)
Strong knowledge and experience of using some modern JavaScript frameworks.



Excellent knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Server-side

Strong knowledge of node.js is a great advantage

Core packages
NPM packages used for web development
Web frameworks - Express, Koa
Development

Linux commands
Testing frameworks – mocha, karma, selenium
Automation – bash, grunt, gulp
Build tools – browserify, babel
Code coverage
Teamcity
Some knowledge of databases is an advantage

ElasticSearch query language
Redis commands
SQL language – MySQL and Oracle flavours