Back End Web Developer

Looking to work within a modern web team in a passionate and challenging environment, within a company that strives for excellence?

Working on a well renowned, innovative, and award winning website, bringing your enthusiasm and desire to grow, you will be using a variety of technologies to evolve the platform and provide real business benefit. You will both support and grow the existing infrastructure and have the freedom to try new things.

You will be expected to work with and support other developers with a wide variety of experience, collaborate in pair programming, team planning, and drive architectural discussions, as well as ensure the needs of the department and business are met. As a web developer, you will be working with other teams in an Agile environment learning the needs of the business to ensure the best user experience possible.

With a dedication to constant improvement, the web team prides itself on encouraging growth and personal development through mentoring, coaching, and training; and hard work is rewarded. As a web developer, you will be encouraged to continue to grow and learn.

A successful candidate will have an eye for detail, and a good understanding of best practices, as well as experience in testing, visualization, design, and an ability to choose the best tool for the job. They will show good time-keeping, excellent collaborative skills, a desire to grow their skillsets, and have a proven history of delivering projects.

This role will sit with the back-end team, working with developing APIs, applications, microservices, websites and toolkits.

About You

Vital Skills:

• Strong experience in Perl web development, particularly Catalyst and Moose
• NoSQL and SQL experience, especially Elastic and MySQL
• Test driven development
• Strong debugging skills

Desired Skills:

• Continuous integration using Git and Jenkins

• API driven and template driven website development

• DevOps including Puppet experience

• Microservices experience or interest

• Linux administration, particularly Bash scripting

• Experience with TheSwartz, Plack, Test::More, DBIx::Class

• Experience with other languages, particularly Javascript

About The Company

At Foxtons, we’re famous for setting the standard in property. We do this by hiring brilliant people to help achieve our goal of being the best place for our customers to find their dream home or unlock the value of their property investment.

Over the last 30 years we’ve built a network of almost 60 branches and a strong operational infrastructure that enables our teams to achieve the highest standards in delivering exceptional service to our customers. Award-winning training ensures our teams have the strong local expertise that our customers expect from us, while our market-leading technology empowers all our staff to provide the best customer experience possible.