ICT Job Openings at Symbiotics Application Services

Job description

Are you simply looking for a job or the opportunity to pursue your love of software development. If the latter, read on.....

In our world, our developers have the flexibility to work where and when they want to work.
We believe in the maxim "10,000 hours" to become an expert and hope you do too. Here you are after 5+ years developing in Java and you're only, at best, user friendlyhalf way there.

More than half the time has been spent doing other stuff - admin, attending meetings, waiting, queuing ....going nowhere instead of doing what you're passionate about, what gets you up in the morning.

If you had joined Symbiotics 5 years ago, you would be able to call yourself an expert by now.

Is it too late? No. Lost time yes but the exposure you'll have to so many different projects will help make up for time lost.

Let's grow together; join our world class team.

Check us out on our website. Ask around and then let's meet.

Who you are:

• Intent on being the best front-end developer ever
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently
• Willing and eager to learn and grow
• Believe in building user-friendly, awesome front ends

What you will do:

• Serve as a UX expert in our client base
• Work with our Java developers on front-end integration
• Mentor our intermediate front end developers

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a front-end developer
• Strong experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• Strong JavaScript knowledge
• Experience with Javascript MV* frameworks such as AngularJS, Ember, Knockout, or Backbone
• Experience with databases and SQL?
• Experience with cross-browser compatibility
• Strong knowledge of REST and SOAP APIs and experience in consuming them
• Proficient at analysing, decomposing and solving problems
• Comfortable with version control systems

Bonus points

• Experience in agile software development processes (preferably scrum
• Experience in UX (User Experience) Design/Development
• Application Debugging Experience using browser based debugging tools
• Related IT qualification
• Demonstrate your design experience - Raster and vector based

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Job description

Salary: Competitive

Are you simply looking for a job or the opportunity to pursue your love of software development.

If the latter, read on.....

In our world, our developers have the flexibility to work where and when they want to work.

We believe in the maxim "10,000 hours" to become an expert and hope you do too. Here you are after 5+ years developing in Java and you're only, at best, half way there. More than half the time has been spent doing other stuff - admin, attending meetings, waiting, queuing ....going nowhere instead of doing what you're passionate about, what gets you up in the morning.

If you had joined Symbiotics 5 years ago, you would be able to call yourself an expert by now.

Is it too late? - No.

Lost time? - Yes, but the exposure you'll have to so many different projects will help make up for time lost.

Let's grow together; join our world class team.

Who you are:

• Intent on being the best java developer ever
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently
• Willing and eager to learn and grow
• Believe in building simple, well-tested systems that allow us to iterate quickly

What you will do:

• Incorporate DevOps practices including test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Contribute to blogs
• Serve as a core member of one of our development teams.
• Write clean, simple, concise and well-tested code
• Mentor intermediate Java developers on your team

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience with Java
• Strong experience with JBoss/Wildfly, or another Java application server
• Experience with JUnit, Mockito, Arquillian
• Solid experience with Hibernate, or another ORM library
• Experience with Postgres or another SQL RDBMS
• Experience with JavaScript, JSON and CSS
• Experience with software engineering concepts such as concurrency, refactoring, design patterns, TDD etc.
• Proficient at analysing, decomposing and solving problems
• Comfortable with version control systems

Bonus points

• Experience in Agile software development processes (preferably scrum)
• Experience with the Linux shell
• Related IT qualification