Scala Developer

Job description

Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading academic publishers, aiding in the dissemination of scientific knowledge via both high profile journals such as Nature and a wide array of specialist titles. We’re also at the forefront of Open Access publishing, making great science free for consumption by anyone.

Springer Nature Digital are a diverse group working in self-managing cross-functional teams, who value collaboration and open debate. We aim to offer a non-hierarchical environment where everyone can contribute meaningfully to the direction of the products and of the department. At the forefront of our beliefs are to continuously deliver high quality solutions to our customers, and to empower teams to accomplish this.

You…

• Are experienced in Scala
• Have knowledge of a variety of tools to help you in your work, such as automated testing, relational/NoSQL databases, and transport protocols
• Have a strong problem-solving mind-set
• Embrace an agile approach, XP techniques, and Continuous Delivery
• Consider yourself a generalist and can pick the right tool for the job
• Enjoy working in Linux or macOS environments
• Believe in teams having both control over and responsibility for their applications
• Are passionate in your work and love to share your ideas with your team
• Keep up to date with technology trends and believe in life-long learning

What you’ll do…

• Create web applications and services that offer the best experience to their users
• Share control in your team as to how to design and build your products
• Influence every step of the delivery process and take ownership for what you build
• Collaborate and work closely with analysts, designers, testers, operations, and product owners, in a diverse and informal environment

Working here

All our software is built an in iterative, incremental manner, so you’ll be able to see new work go live, sometimes immediately – to millions of visitors around the globe. XP and Kanban heavily influence our flavour of agile and if something isn’t working, we change it.

We provide teams with an internal CloudFoundry environment, and a continuous delivery toolchain that makes getting a new project to live as easy as a few lines of metadata. We aim to make infrastructure as painless as possible, and ensure our developers are both able and trusted to get software live and to support it.

Our teams are cross-discipline so that our work delivers value to both the business and our customers: business analysts and UX designers work with stakeholders to coordinate research and understand requirements, developers pair with quality analysts to develop the most robust solutions, and our platform and tool engineers work across the organisation to ensure our infrastructure never lets us down.

On top of this we offer a great range of benefits including flexible working with one day a week from home, a competitive salary, pension contributions, 25 days holiday and many more.