[BNM] [JOB] Codefarm Software Ltd. Java UI Developer/Designer, Brighton

[Miles Sabin]

Codefarm Software Ltd.
Java UI Developer/Designer
January 2007

CVs to Hannah Lindsey-Halls, mailto:hannah.lindsey-halls at codefarm.com. 
Strictly no agencies.

* Summary

  In this position you will be working within the Product Development
  team responsible for the design and development of Galapagos products. 
  This is an important hands-on role in a small, dynamic, creative and
  technically excellent team, with the potential to make a valuable
  contribution to the successful growth of a rapidly expanding company. 
  The role will be mainly Brighton based with occasional travel to
  Codefarm’s London office and client sites.

* Details

  Key Responsibilities:

    User interface design/development, including design for testability.
    Requirements gathering from clients and the Client Services team.

  Reports To: Program Manager.

  Key Relationships:

    Q/A team.
    Technical Author.

  Remuneration:

    Competitive salary and bonus.
    Participation in employee share option scheme.

  Location: Brighton, UK with occasional travel to London.

  Attributes:

    An intelligent individual with an aptitude for quickly learning and
    applying new skills and technologies.

    Able to work well in a pressured environment to demanding deadlines
    while always handling client relationships in a professional manner.

    Desire to be involved in the delivery of an exciting new application
    capable of providing tangible benefits to customers within short
    project timescales.

    Communicative self-starter with ability to work successfully as part
    of a focussed development team.

  Skills:
    Essential skills include,
    * Good computer science (or maths/sciences/analytical) degree,
      postgraduate desirable, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
    * Human factors/interaction design experience.
    * Knowledge of online help systems.
    * Excellent Java (1.5 including generics) in a Windows/Linux
      environment.
    * Financial or Sci/Eng UI design experience, esp. data
      visualization/manipulation.
    * Software version control using CVS.

    Other highly desirable skills include,
    * Software development using Eclipse, JUnit and Ant.
    * Exposure to Eclipse RCP/SWT development, including familiarity
      with OSGi.
    * Design patterns.
    * XML, W3C XML Schema, XPath, XSLT.
    * Use of bugtracking software (esp. JIRA, Confluence).
    * Excel COM automation, including integration with Java.
    * Strong mathematical background, possibly in a financial sector
      context.

  Experience:
    You will have worked as a Java UI developer/designer for innovative
    technical or scientific software product companies over a period of
    3+ years.
 
    Track record in a Financial environment would be highly desirable.

-- 
Miles Sabin, Technical Director
Codefarm Software Limited
Tower Point, 44 North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YR, UK
tel: +44 (0)1273 666350 mobile: +44 (0)7813 944528
http://www.codefarm.com/