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AUPEO! is an exciting new digital music service that delivers personalised music streams to users through hardware devices and over the web. As a relatively young company, we are looking to expand our development team as we expand both the features of our service, and the number devices / platforms on which the service is available. This role is the perfect opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated software developer looking to get experience of creating a scalable, distributed, platform-agnostic content service, or to apply existing experience in a new context. The successful candidate will help us develop both server- and client- side software, using a wide variety of technologies and languages, includingRuby (/ on Rails), Java, Objective-C, Flash and Javascript.

Our team takes software engineering very seriously. You will be expected to have a good understanding of the performance characteristics of the datastructures and algorithms that you use, an eye for well-structured, readable code, and an appreciation of the importance of test coverage and code reviews. Our development environment is fairly high-paced, and

code quality is critical to our being able to deliver working software quickly and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Developing server- and client- side software to support our business

• requirements and those of our partners / customers.

• Reviewing the code of other developers to ensure a high quality of

• code and to facilitate knowledge sharing

• Discovering and adopting new technologies as and when they become

• necessary / appropriate.

Requirements

• A bachelors degree in computer science or related field, or

• equivalent experience.

• Substantial software development experience - experience developing

• and maintaining large applications over a long period of time.

• Comprehensive understanding of software architecture and design

• principles, web services, and underlying internet technologies.

• Excellent verbal communication skills.

• Enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn new skills

Desirable Experience

• Ruby on Rails application development and deployment

• Development in a dynamically-typed, interpreted language (e.g. Ruby,

• Python)

• Unit / Functional / Integration testing. Test- / Behaviour-driven

• development.

• Web development - AJAX, Javascript.

• Development of distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

Applications are now closed.