Software Engineers

Permanent or contract (remote working considered).

We’re looking for 2-3 expert software engineers to help us build a series of major enhancements to our dating platform and infrastructure over the next 12 months. You’ll have worked on high availability transactional systems, helping to analyse, design and implement improvements to ensure they can scale effectively, and understand the challenges in building a large, complex web application.

Our team of 20 developers and designers are focused on creating the very best online dating platform in the industry. We run thousands of white labelled subscription dating sites around the world, both own-brand and on behalf of partners. We’re highly profitable, growing quickly and want to recruit talented software engineers to provide the expertise to evolve our technology platform. While this position is intended to work alongside web developers, you’ll be building the platform rather than the web app layer so will need to think throughout the stack.

We’re located in Windsor, west of London. We’re easily commutable from London (West from Paddington or South-West direct from Waterloo), Reading, Staines or Slough. We have a relaxed, social office and we would love for you to work alongside us or we can also consider remote working if you’re too far away.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement application and infrastructure components
  • Analyse and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of system
  • Work with developers to create new features and functionality
  • Advise best practices from large-scale application experience

Requirements and Skills

  • Proven experience of building high availability, large-scale web apps and infrastructure
  • Understanding and implementation of distributed message-based systems
  • Expert knowledge developing and debugging in Ruby and ideally Java/Scala
  • Solid competency with SQL (MySQL) and data caching strategies (memcached)
  • Experience in both small and large company environments

Desired

  • Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc or equivalent)
  • Expertise in C, Perl and Erlang, and an interest in functional programming
  • Practical experience with non-relational data stores
  • Good standing in the open source community

And Also

  • A passion and flair for all things web tech
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Accountability, responsibility and flexibility

We offer fantastic company benefits for permanent employees. Following probation, if permanent, we’ll match up to 5% of your salary into your company stakeholder pension, you’ll be covered with BUPA health care with any medical history disregarded, we’ll cover you with a 4 x salary death-in-service life insurance policy, and we’ll contribute to local gym membership.

You’ll get an iMac/MacBook Pro to work on with a second display if you’re on-site.  We have free posh coffee machines, orange juicers, games consoles, a football table and more.

Find out more about our team at globaldev.co.uk.

How to Apply

If you’re interested in applying or would like to know more, please contact us at jobs@globalpersonals.co.uk.

We can only consider candidates entitled to work in the UK.

No agencies please.