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Find Your Ninja Project:Lightning Talks: Simply Business
Lightning Talks: Simply Business
 At this event, around 10+ Tech Companies will pitch their coding projects in a series of 5-minute lightning sessions to software developers looking for interesting, agile projects using progressive technologies.
Simply Business’ impressive growth and dynamic web culture has ensured that they are the UK’s largest and fastest growing on-line commercial insurance broker, attracting an impressive and high calibre Tech Team.
The business is now at an exciting new stage of its life as it builds an innovative and dynamic culture around Agile. Simply Business has just been awarded Most Agile Aware Organisation at the Agile Awards 2011 and have appeared in the Top Tech 100 Companies for the last four consecutive years. With these credentials, a fantastic culture and very ambitious growth plans, now is the time to join this dynamic Tech business.
Simply Business' view and culture is web, not insurance. You will take part in shaping the future direction of this business from both a technology and cultural perspective, while helping to architect, design and refactor systems.
Our Tech team goals
- Happy & efficient team
- Get through our workload at pace
- Enhance agility of the organisation through technology
- Technologists are part of the business, not service providers
A Developer role with Simply Business with involve:
- Designing and developing our systems using Agile
- Working to establish best practices and future direction of our internal systems, most of which need building from scratch, using:(A)TDD / BDD, Pair programming, Continuous deployment, Modern web frameworks (Django, Rails, CodeIignitor etc)
- Working with internal business clients to understand their requirements and translate into value-generating technical solutions
- Supporting, troubleshooting and managing production applications
- Enabling bespoke and standardised data integration with clients
- Assisting the tech team in transitioning our current Java-based technology stack to a Ruby/Rails-based one and implementing solutions that help us in that transition
- Working on system blockers (lack of technology solutions impeding business progress) with two other senior team members
- Mentoring and growing a talented team of developers
- Assisting in our continued improvement of Agile across tech & biz, including tools and technologies.
- Working together with our CTO, Team Lead and Principal developer to formulate our strategy for migrating existing solutions to a new technology stack.
- Being part of an entrepreneurial team whose goal is to accelerate the growth of the company
We look for Passionate Developers who have:
- Proven experience in high quality, best practice software project delivery
- Solid experience with interpreted languages such as Ruby, Python, PHP
- Experience with Ruby and related technologies is a major plus, as well as re-engineering skills
- Experience with enterprise database servers such as Oracle 10g, data warehousing solutions, and data modelling
- Experience of Agile development; pair programming
- An analytical mind and creative approach to problem solving
- A strong academic record
As well as the above we love people who can bring something new to our team, people who blog, speak at conferences and actively participate in the open source community!
For more info see: https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/
ABOUT LUKAS OBERHUBER
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Lukas joined Simply Business as Chief Technology Officer in September 2010 with the aim of increasing flexibility and agility of the organisation through technology. Since joining he has implemented a number of new systems and processes including Agi
More about Lukas Oberhuber
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ABOUT THE FIND YOUR NINJA PROJECT
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We are organising some evening events, dedicated to help development teams find new colleagues, and where developers (and project or product managers, architects, testers..) can find out about some really cool projects.
More about the Find Your Ninja Project
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PODCAST LIGHTNING TALKS: SIMPLY BUSINESS
This session took part at the Cool Projects in April. You can view the other 10 podcasts here.
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