Developer
The Motley Fool is an independent, award-winning company dedicated to helping people redefine the way they think about and interact with money.
We’re one of the UK’s most popular financial websites, with 1.5 million members and 600,000 site visitors a month. Our site is free to use (with the exception of Champion Shares, our premium share-tipping newsletter) and our editorial team writes several impartial articles each day on every aspect of personal finance and investing.
We are committed to empowering a community of financially literate individuals through our discussion boards, our articles, our services and our comparison tables. We are seriously good with money.
Job Summary
The Fool Wants You! Our UK Tech Team is looking for a great new recruit, a bright, happy, customer-oriented techie, with the passion to be responsible for maintaining the technical needs of our London office.
The UK Tech Development Team is responsible for enhancing and supporting the fool.co.uk website. Working as a Developer you will be working very closely with Senior Developers, Designers & Product Managers forming part of an agile delivery team.
This position will be based in our London, UK office. All candidates must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered.
Primary Responsibilities
You will work on the full life-cycle software development of our web site, and some other non-web applications. You will help design high quality software solutions, make use of software patterns, implement code and unit tests with other developers, participate in peer review or pairing, test, and maintain the application.
Core Competencies
An understanding of Object Oriented analysis and design, and software patterns.
* Fluent in C# and ASPX
* Microsoft .Net 2.0 experience
* Experience with Microsoft T-SQL
* Experience with unit testing and TDD
* (X)HTML/XML/XSL/XSL-T/Ajax experience
* Strong communication skills
* Live public-facing web site experience is a plus
* Agile and iterative methodologies experience a plus, particularly Scrum
Desirable skills and experience
* Exposure to Content Management Systems integration
* SOAP/XML
* Exposure to non Microsoft programming languages and technologies
Preferred Qualities
* Ability to deal with non technical people
* Sense of humour
* A Strong work ethic, independent worker, consistent and organised work habits
* Adaptable, good with feedback and continually looking to improve
* Willingness to learn and to develop yourself at a fast pace
* True to the Motley Fool Values: Honesty, Optimism, Teamwork, Innovation and Winning
Education and Job Knowledge
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience
* A minimum of 1 to 2 years experience in a similar role
Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits
Benefits include: Private Health Insurance, Life and Income Protection, 25 days holiday, Childcare Vouchers, Bike Scheme, Eye Care Contribution, Season Ticket Loan, Subsidised Gym Membership, Share Program, Company Pension (inc generous company contribution), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plus many more.
No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.
Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES. DIRECT APPLICATIONS ONLY
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