Senior Software Developer- .Net/ Silverlight
West London
The opportunity
The opportunity would see you join the Sky Go Web Client software development team, which forms part of a much wider collection of teams that develop the Sky Go platform and associated clients. Together we use cutting edge, highly scalable, technology to delight our customers with online services which allow them to consume Sky content online and on numerous hardware platforms.
As part of the Sky Go Web Client team you would:
- Contribute and develop high quality software that forms an integral part of the Sky Go offering
- Work with a self-organising and cross functional agile team using techniques such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming
- Influence the technical direction of the team from a design and technology stack point of view
- Champion and coach peers in software development best practices and best of breed technology
- Take an active role in user story definition, assisting QAs and business stakeholders with acceptance criteria
- Participate in regular showcases of new work to the our product owners and other business stakeholders
- Take a pro-active role with production issues and release management
- Strive for continuous improvement within the team
- Enjoy the extensive benefits of working for a large yet dynamic organisation
Skills and Experience:
It is essential that you can immediately add value to our team and be able to contribute to our team's velocity from day one. Therefore we think it is essential that you have knowledge and experience of as many of the following items as possible:
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of open source and commercial technologies
- C# / .NET 4 & 4.5
- XAML
- Silverlight
- Experience of software development for high quality, high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Object Orientated Programming (OOP/OOD)
- Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)
- RESTful web services (JSON / XML)
- Web application architectures and designs
- Design Patterns and code modularisation
- Experience within agile frameworks and practices
- Scrum, Kanban or Scrum-ban
- User stories
- Continuous Integration/Delivery
- Paired Programming
- Experience with Application Lifecycle Management Tools
- Jira and Confluence (or similar)
- Jenkins (or similar)
- SVN and Git (or similar)
Bonus Points Skills and Experience:
- Responsive design
- Knowledge of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
- Experience with large content/video management systems
- Experience of web based video technologies (VOD/Linear Streaming)
- Bachelors' degree or equivalent industry experience
If this sounds like you, please do apply
Our benefits package is designed to recognise the essential part you play in Skys success. We offer free Sky+HD, broadband and talk services; private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlements, a contribution pension scheme, a Share scheme so you can have a stake in Sky and our success plus Sky Choices a benefit scheme to help you make valuable tax & national insurance savings.
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