This job posting is for a senior web application developer at an international media brand. Responsibilities include developing prototypes and features using agile methodologies, providing estimates and input into planning, and ensuring solutions are robust. Required skills are strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills along with experience writing unit tests. Desired skills include responsive design, Node.js, APIs, test-driven development, and agile methodologies.

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Senior Web Application Developer
Description
Our client is looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Web Application Developer with a
passion for creating high quality, rich, dynamic web applications and an emphasis on
frontend technologies. This hugely successful, international media brand has just under 5
million registered users to its main website and boasts an average daily readership of over 2
million - working in a pure Agile (Scrum & Waterfall) environment, you would be working in
a culture of innovation which has helped develop some ground breaking products including
a multi award winning iOS-optimised HTML5 web app which has seen more than 2.5 million
users since its launch a year ago.
Responsibilities
● Work closely with business owners to create product and feature prototypes and within
an Agile team to prototype, develop, test, deploy and monitor applications through to
Production.
● Provide estimates, views on feasibility of proposed work, and input into the team’s
planning sessions.
● Ensure solutions are robust and technically fit for purpose.
● Contribute to the organisation’s standards, methods and procedures and ensure that
development initiatives are carried out in accordance with those.
Skills and Experience
● Personal / Team skills
- Self-starter.
- Highly motivated team player.
- Ability to think creatively and devise outsidethebox solutions to business
problems.
- Great communication skills at technical and nontechnical level.
- Provide mentoring and technical leadership to junior members of the
team.
● Development skills (JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5)
Must have:
- Solid skills coding handcrafted

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- HTML(5), JavaScript and CSS(3).
- Significant exposure to native (OO) JavaScript.
- Experience with JavaScript libraries (e.g. jQuery, Backbone, Underscore).
Desirable:
- Developing in responsive, mobile first way.
- Node.js using frameworks and modules (e.g. Express, Meteor, Socket.io).
Nice to have:
- Experience using APIs to create content driven web applications. (e.g. Google Apps
Script).
● Methodologies
Must have
- Experience writing unit tests (e.g. qUnit, Jasmine) and writing code in a testable way
Desirable:
- Exposure to Test Driven Development
- Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
- DevOps, self monitoring applications, performance testing.
● Other nice to haves
- Experience using datastores (SQL/NoSQL, e.g. Redis, MongoDB).
- Continuous Integration / Deployment (e.g. Jenkins).
- Deployment, management and monitoring of cloud applications (e.g. using Heroku,
AWS).
- Knowledge of mitigating security attacks (e.g. SSJS).
- Creating scalable apps, understanding of scalable architectures (horizontal scaling,
loosely coupled modules).
- Testing frameworks (e.g. Webdriver, Qunit, Jasmine, Mocha, Vows).