Senior Software Developer with DevOps experience

Fronter is seeking a Senior Software Developer, with DevOps experience and at least 5 years experience as a developer, for a full-time position at our head office in Oslo.

As a Senior Software and DevOps Developer you will be a key part of an agile cross-functional development team responsible for developing tools and core functionality in the Fronter learning platform. You will work closely with all team members, including developers, product owners, and operations located in Oslo, and QA in Mumbai. You’ll get to participate in all team activities, from planning to implementation, QA and deployment.

Fronter is a platform historically implemented on a LAMP stack, but is to an increasing extent being decoupled and implemented in several languages and frameworks. Javascript (e.g., Node.js, Angular.js), Python and Swift, together with Java for Android development, and database technologies like Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Titan, currently stand out as the most important.

You’ll get the opportunity to work with a large and diverse range of languages, systems and technologies. You don’t need to know everything in advance, but you must have expert level knowledge in several key areas. We also expect you to be professionally curious, able to continuously learn and suggest new technologies as needed.
Though your focus will be primarily on backend development and DevOps, you are encouraged to continuously develop your skillset across the stack, help others to achieve the same, and take a keen interest in the other disciplines needed for continuous release.
You must have a “can do” attitude, with a thirst for knowledge and a drive for self improvement. Most importantly: you must care about your team, your code and the end user’s experience.
As a Senior Developer, you will act as a mentor for co-workers asking for assistance or advice.

Mandatory qualifications

• 5+ years web development experience
• Excellent English skills, both written and oral
• Linux/Unix server management and bash scripting experience
• Experience with System administration and devops responsibilities
• Expertise in database technologies
• Knowledge about, and interest in, Linux containers and microservices, using Docker or similar
• Programming languages: PHP, JavaScript
• Some experience with cloud server deployment using Amazon EC2, Heroku or similar
• Experience with automated build deployment stacks using Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Excellent understanding of modern web application development
• Experience with SOA and modern web architecture
• A good understanding of RESTful Web Service API’s

Preferred qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. 
• Candidates with proven skills and relevant experience will be considered 
• Source code management with Git 
• Node.js based web application development
• Experience with jQuery or similar libraries
• Experience with TDD - Test Driven Development - using best of breed tools for Javascript development
• CSS preprocessors such as SASS and LESS
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver or WebDriverJS
• Grunt or similar build step technology
• Other programming languages such as Python, Perl, Java, Clojure, Scala or Ruby
• Software design patterns

Bonus qualifications

• Experience with Angular.js, Ember, Knockout or similar frameworks
• Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, Lean Startup, XP and similar
• HTML5 and CSS3
• BDD - Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber or similar tools
• Native iOS or Android development