Prepared by: Jesus Fernandez

Date: Jan 2015

Job Description
Job title: Node JS Developer

Function: Development Omni-channel

Reports to: Technical Lead

Sub Function: NA

Level / Grade: 5

Location: London

Job purpose: As a Senior Node.JS developer you will be part of Thomas Cooks new digital technology team involved in designing and building large scale node.js
applications that scale to millions of customers, billions of pounds in revenue and thousands of requests per millisecond.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

Designing and building large scale node.js applications for production environment
Providing, through partnership with business and product owners, translation of
high value business ideas into beautiful and innovative software solutions
Providing technical excellence on team to ensure quality first mind-set, simple
architecture and highest code quality
Writing great software adhering to agile software engineering practices (e.g.,DRY

principles, TDD, continuous integration, automated tests, etc.)

Reviewing code and providing mentorship to other developers on agile team.

Ability to work under pressure with can do attitude and solid sense for setting
priorities.
Distinct customer focus, quality mind-set and analytical skills combined with ability
to develop creative solutions.

Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills with ability to deal

with ambiguity and drive independently (or collaboratively with team) on solutions,
positive approach for difficulties and imaginative problem solver.

Key performance indicators:

Code quality & Speed of delivery
Mentoring & leadership
Championing Technical Innovation
Team work

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:
Experience designing and building large scale node.js applications with 100%
code coverage.
Expert in writing and deploying large-scale node.js code bases with significant
experience in building/maintaining continuous integration and deployment
environments (e.g., Chef, Jenkins, etc.)
node.js, npm, hapi.js, express.js, mongodb, mocka/tape/webdriver
Strong background in test driven development, automated testing and other
software engineering best practices
Preferred:
Experience of writing client side Javascript - (e.g. Angular.js)
Experience writing services oriented code (e.g. RESTful), API services...
Participation in open source development.
Experience using data stores /search engines (e.g., MongoDB, Apache SOLR)
Technical / professional qualifications:
BA/BS degree in Computer Science Engineering or other relevant discipline e.g.
Business Information Systems, Computer Engineering.
Direct reports:
NA

Budget owned:
NA

Dotted line reports / key stakeholders:

NA

This Job Description outlines key accountabilities all employees are expected to be flexible regarding their accountabilities and may from time to time be asked to carry out other duties to ensure achievement of
company targets

Job Description: Guidance Notes

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So that the person understands what they are accountable for and what they are expected to deliver

For recruitment so the right person with the right skills is recruited to do the job

To outline how the job interfaces with the rest of the organisation and ensure there is no overlap between jobs
This job description will be used internally and externally - it needs to be simple and free of Thomas Cook acronyms and jargon so that an
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