Senior Java Developer – Wahanda www.wahanda.com (Central London)
To apply send your CV and something that gets our attention to: jobs@wahanda.com
What exactly is a Wahanda?
Wahanda is an ambitious year-old online company developing an e-commerce, content and community marketplace for the beauty, health and wellness industries. Founded by veterans of lastminute.com and Yahoo!, Wahanda is looking to revolutionise the way consumers search and book health & beauty treatments by connecting customers with wellness businesses and professionals. Wahanda is backed by some high profile investors including the former technology founders of Skype, the investors behind last.fm, a founder of lastminute.com and a former worldwide director of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts. Oh, and to find out what “Wahanda” means, click here
THE ROLE
We’re looking for someone who knows the web inside out, but we’re not looking for someone who studied Java just because it’s an easy way to get well-paid work. We’re looking for someone for whom IT is one of their passions, who has an interest in everything from development methodologies, through website design, down to the current state-of-the-art in CPU design. Java is the language that most of our software is written in, but we also have a fair amount of PHP. We’d expect you to be expert in at least one other mainstream language (C, C++, Ruby etc) and have decent knowledge of a scripting language (Python, Perl etc).
As a modern Internet business, we also understand the importance of a rich user experience and use a number of client side technologies to achieve this. You should be highly proficient in the basic UI technologies (CSS, HTML, JS) and should have good experience with a JavaScript based UI framework (JQuery, GWT, Prototype).
An understanding of the principles and application of SEO would be a big advantage.
Our platform is Apache, Tomcat, Spring, Velocity and MS SQL Server. It’s quite an unusual combination, so we won’t expect you to have direct experience with all those technologies, but the more the better.
We’re committed to an agile development process with a strict two-week release cycle. We use a variant of Scrum, so some experience of agile development methodologies and techniques is required.
You’ll be joining a team with a broad range of skills and experience and will be expected to take active role in mentoring the junior members of our team.
This is a great opportunity to work with and learn from very experienced professionals who are also excited about learning from you!
Who will you be working with?
The founding team of Wahanda have considerable experience in the ‘online world’ of content, community, search & booking, and are looking to add energetic people to the growing team who are passionate about the online space and want to quickly get up to speed to start adding value. The founding team have run large business units within lastminute.com and Yahoo! Search, and have strong prior experience in the technology & media sectors. Together we are building the most comprehensive and essential global online health, beauty & wellness resource.
To apply send your CV and something that gets our attention to: jobs@wahanda.com
