We are looking for a Junior Scala Developer. You may not have any professional Scala experience, although may have completed a Coursera course or contribute to Scala projects via github etc.
We are happy to spend a lot of time with you to learn and apply Scala in a particularly interesting environment. As Scala is a relatively new language, a lot of companies have been finding it hard to get to grips with the language, and that’s something we’ve definitely mastered at ITV. I think you’ll get good opportunities to be mentored well here.
You may have heard in the press that very soon we’ll be relaunching ITV Player under a new brand called ITV Hub, and we’ll have a brand new on-demand catch-up service - something our team has been directly involved with.
Last year we served 1bn videos across 20 platforms and we’re expanding, year on year video delivery is increasing by 40% and the number of platforms we’re on is ever expanding as well, we have our eyes on Amazon Fire TV, XBox1, PS4, Chromecast to name a few.
Our deployment frequency is going from months to days, and we’re building new platforms to get it down to hours.
All of this is being delivered by cross-functional teams that are encouraged to be autonomous and self organising. We use agile techniques and methods centred around Kanban, and our Agile Delivery Manager talks more about these in this talk at Lean Kanban UK.
Our Tech Stack
Our main technology stack includes the following. Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with all of these - we will give you time and support in getting up to speed, and access to experts when you get stuck.
Each developer gets a MacBook Pro or Air.
What we can offer
We offer a competitive salary and 5 weeks’ holiday on top of public holidays, plus the option to buy more. Other benefits include annual bonus plan, life assurance cover, and interest-free season-ticket loans, an opportunity to buy ITV shares, and the chance to join pension, health insurance, childcare vouchers and cycle to work schemes.
We continually invest in our staff, and we offer a range of training and development including in-house and external courses, and attendance at conferences and events.
ITV are committed to equality in the workplace. That’s why, whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or family circumstances, we make it our business to make sure you’re treated with fairness and respect. We’re dedicated to offering flexible working that supports all of our colleagues, and when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees with a disability, we’ve been officially recognised for our efforts. See our jobs site for more about working at ITV.
Our recruitment process for Online
Once we’ve seen your CV and want to proceed, there will be:
an initial phone conversation with one of our senior engineers. They will give you more details about the role and the interview process, and talk to you about your skills and experience at a high level to understand how you cover the requirements above. This is normally less than ½ hour.
a review of your code which must be Scala, or other statically-typed functional language by prior agreement. This can be a suitable open source project if it is mainly your work and you are confident it is representative of your skills. Alternatively, this can be a short coding test either performed in our office or remotely. This will be fulfilling a simple brief very similar to a Kata. You complete this in your own time and if done remotely we are happy to provide support over email or instant messaging (you may have to wait until office hours for a response though). This typically takes anywhere from ½ hour to a couple of hours.
Interview on Scala and development practices. This will be followed by a pairing exercise with 2 people from the team you will be working with, where you will be asked to discuss and extend the solution you provided for the remote coding test. The time taken for this varies, from around ½ hour to 1 ½ hours. Finally you’ll get a chance to meet more people from the team and to ask any questions you have. We’d recommend allowing 3 hours for the whole session.