About role:

- Passionate Senior Java developer required in Central London to play a key role in the design and development of innovative web applications + next generation meta-search products

- Working as part of a small fun team within a well-known online publisher you will be responsible for delivering exciting new products, application design and contributing to architectural decisions

- You must have strong experience with building scalable applications.

- This role is perfectly suited to someone who is smart, writes elegant code, loves freedom, loves a challenge and is willing to get their hands dirty and deliver amazing products




About us:

- We are a profitable online travel publisher, our flagship product dealchecker.co.uk is a top 20 travel website in the UK

- We are working on some new kick arse world beating products

- We are growing fast, having grown at an average 40% every year since we launched 5 years ago,

- We work in a lovely warehouse in Clerkenwell

- We use Agile methodologies, Spring and Grails (the searchable plugin was written by one of our developers), but are always open to new stuff

- We give our developers a lot of freedom, we are interested in the fastest, smartest solution, you tell us how to get there

- You get a comfy Aeron chair, big screens and a juiced computer




About you:

- Thrive in a challenging environment

- Love solving problems with elegant well thought out solutions

- You like a place where developers are empowered to be creative while doing their job

- Excel at working independently

- You want to be proud describing the types of web applications you are working on

- You want to learn as much as possible and share that knowledge with your team mates

- You have love diving into a problem, working with the business to support the growth of the company

- You love technology, you love programming, you love the web




Must haves:

- Java (Grails/Groovy would be huge bonus)

- Spring/Hibernate

- SQL (ideally MySQL)

- Servlet container experience - e.g. Tomcat, Jetty

- XML technologies

- Web development - XHTML/GSP, AJAX, CSS, Javascript

- Subversion (or other source control)

- Experience of working in an Agile environment

- an understanding of scalable web applications (caching, clustering, grid computing, etc)

- Lucene/Compass/Solr experience would be beneficial

- Linux scripting/admin useful



Read more about the company and the job at dmcdigital.co.uk