Lead Developer: E-Commerce - London £60k - £75k OTE dependent on experience + Healthcare

By Lisa | November 6, 2008

Job Title: Technical Lead - Ruby on Rails Development (Agile, XP, SCRUM)

Salary: £60k - £75k OTE dependent on experience + Healthcare

Company Introduction

A London based E-Commerce agency, specialising in the design and build of transactional web sites for a range of clients including Multi-Channel Retailers and Blue Chip brands. My client also provide a range of E-Marketing and Usability Services.

Continually developing and evolving its E-Commerce offering with current developments including Web 2.0 based Community features within an online retail environment.

As technical lead for the development team, you will be driving best practice and productivity working in a stimulating Agile environment where test-driven development and pair programming is a natural part of the day-to-day job.

Current clients include Sainsbury’s, BUPA and Dollond & Aitchison.

Job Description

Core skills required include:

· Proven track record running successful projects/teams

· Solid Ruby on Rails knowledge (1+ years of commercial experience)

· 4+ years commercial experience in web development

· Test-driven development

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills with team experience

· Agile / Scrum

Leadership skills

· Team management, ensuring team collaboration and continuity

· Making key strategic and architectural technology decisions

· Managing pair programming and test strategy

· Ensuring communication (stand-ups, bi-weekly/monthly technical update/progress meetings as requested by the team)

· Coach the team on problems solving

· Motivate the team to be proud of the work they produce

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be advantageous:

· E-Commerce

· Systems Integration

· Community / Web 2.0

· Extreme Programming

Keywords

Lead developer, technical lead, test driven, agile, TTD, XP Xtreme Programming, Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, Ruby on Rails, MVC, Design patterns, SCRUM

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