Junior Back-end Developer

Tappit Leeds United Kingdom Development
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Company Description

About Us

Tappit is the only truly global RFiD cashless solution.

We enhance live experiences, providing technology and insights to make events better and more profitable.

We reduce queues, maximise profit, eliminate fraud and provide event organisers with valuable data and insights, and the most important thing - we understand your business and customers, because we’re fans ourselves.

Events and venues around the world provide the best cashless experience using tappit, including: Manchester City Football Club, Birmingham City Football Club, Bestival, Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby 7s, Creamfields, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the World Surf League.

For more information visit www.tappit.com

Position

Office locations

Leeds, London, Manchester, Los Angeles, Dubai, Chennai, Amsterdam, Ibiza, Barcelona.

Job Function

Technologies

Location

Leeds, UK

Purpose

Tappit are looking for somebody to join our Technologies team who will be responsible for developing servers and defining and maintaining the central database. Our Back-End developer will work within a team to integrate with front-end elements within our application.

Key Responsibilities

  • Innovate, Develop, Maintain and Contribute to the existing codebase and it’s associated applications

  • Define and communicate technical and design requirements

  • Developing, testing and maintaining reliable and reusable code

  • Work closely with the infrastructure and Front End engineers to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure

  • Troubleshoot, identify and fix and bugs

  • Identify and correct and bottlenecks

  • Conduct regular UI tests to ensure est in class performance of the platform

  • Mentor, train and support other engineers in order to develop our in house Back End development skills

Requirements

Skills & Experience

  • 3+ years of previous experience as a Back-End Developer

  • Proven experience within a dev team in a web backend development role.

  • Solid understanding of modern web application development, including security, SPAs, state management, OOP design patterns.

  • Competent with REST API and back-end service integration.

  • Proven proficiency with MySQL, Shell scripting, Redis, Celery

  • Jira Confluence & Agile working methodologies

  • Ability to design and document system API’s for our Front End and Mobile Developers

  • Proven proficiency using automated testing frameworks

  • Proficient with CSS3 and related tools/methodologies such as Less and/or Sass, CSS modules, CSS-in-JS etc

  • A strong and flexible work ethic

  • Excellent communication skills

Other information

Please apply by submitting yout CV and covering letter.