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The Backend Developer is a new and integral role within the Business Intelligence team of Air Navigation Solutions (ANSL) and presents an exciting opportunity to design and develop new solutions and inform the ANSL data and technology strategy. This is a broad role with opportunities to get involved in wide ranging projects, for internal and external customers, working both independently and as part of a team. You will work closely with the Business Insights Lead, the Business Insights Analyst, and the wider organisation at all levels, including Engineers, Operations Specialists and comparative functions within our parent company, DFS. You will develop and own the data feeds, APIs, and other data integration pipelines, from conception to operation and help shape the architecture vision of ANSL and our customers, translating this vision into a reality. You will strive for a high degree of automation, clean architectures, optimised code, and overall high quality, with a customer-centric and continuous improvement mindset. Using the right tools for the job, you will solve business and technical problems in an efficient way, developing resilient and high-performing infrastructures, ensuring data integrity is maintained at all times. The ANSL environment is hosted in Microsoft Azure and this individual will understand the Azure toolbox, leveraging Azure services as part of the development of ANSL’s infrastructure. This role is for a 12 month fixed term period and offers a competitive salary and benefits. It is based at ANSL's Head Office in Gatwick, with the option of hybrid working. Primary Responsibilities Be the business expert for end-to-end data transfer solutions, including APIs, from concept through design, build, test, deploy and release for both ANSL systems, third party systems and external customer projects. Support the development of existing APIs. Design, build and maintain new APIs. Build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers on a project and/or continuous improvement basis. Plan and conduct tests for databases, applications, and other developed components to address bugs and quality issues. Maintain a focus on data integrity, data management, code optimisation and performance tuning. Architecture design and improvement.  Support ANSL’s data warehouse development.  Innovative approach to the use of a range of tools, constantly exploring ways to improve and find the right solution to a problem. Support on projects from a data perspective; understanding the project objectives, the outputs needed to meet the objectives, and the raw data required to enable this.  Interact with the wider ANSL & DFS business, where required. The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment.    Co-workers, customers, and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.  Actively promote ANSL to internal and external customers, carrying out all duties in an efficient, professional, and courteous manner; clearly & effectively communicate with customers & staff.  ​Demonstrate the values within the business always.  Any other reasonable duties as requested by your Manager. Qualifications & Experience Educated to degree level, ideally in a quantitative discipline or equivalent relevant experience (desired). Previous experience within a similar role. Good knowledge and commercial application of various data feeds, web services and API protocols, and the ability to recommend the optimal solution for each situation (including experience of HTTP, REST and SOAP APIs). Competent in SQL, JSON, XML. ​Good knowledge of physical and cyber security, and associated security standards. Innovative approach to complex data extraction and transfer, processing, transformation, and persistence. Knowledge and experience of testing. Experience of database development desired. Experience of cloud computing with use of the Microsoft Azure toolbox desired.  Competencies and Attitude Excellent problem-solving skills A desire to innovate Highly competent communicator including written communications Ability to work collaboratively and as part of a team Pro-active approach and able to identify areas of need and to manage outputs Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail A passion for providing a service to customers Self-motivated with the ability to take ownership and to work autonomously Ability to use own initiative and produce results Personal integrity and professionalism Understanding of commercial principles Internal Relationships ANSL DFS Group Operational/technical experts, project teams  External Relationships Customers. Suppliers. Regulatory Authorities, CAA. Other Third Parties.  This job description reflects the main functions of the role but from time to time the company may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to meet the needs of the business.

Who are we? Masabi is the global leader in mobile ticketing and fare collection for transportation. We deliver transport ticketing solutions that delight customers and reduce cost for agencies and operators. Masabi’s JustRide is a scalable mobile ticketing and fare management platform, which allows agencies to upgrade or replace their legacy ticketing systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional options and at minimum risk to our agency partners. Our JustRide platform was rolled out in New York last year and single handedly reduced the queues at Grand Central Station. JustRide continues to grow in popularity and is currently live in 10 different states and cities across the globe... a number which should triple this year. What will you be doing as our Front End Developer? We are looking for a Front-End Javascript developer with experience in core web technologies (Javascript, HTML5, CSS) to work as part of our highly successful JustRide team. The JustRide team are responsible for the development of our iOS and Android applications, our new web sales platform, our back office web portal and the API’s and SDK’s that power these. These platforms combined currently process over $0.25 billion transactions a year. With these kinds of numbers, security and fraud mitigation are paramount to our success. We ensure high standards by comprehensive end to end and unit testing, as well as refactoring to ensuring we work to the latest standards, best practices and up to date frameworks. We work as part of a cross-discipline team who deliver robust and reusable components originating from product requirements through UX, design, development, and quality assurance. We are looking for a pro-active person to join the team and actively contribute to code reviews, pairing, knowledge sharing, mentoring and technical roadmapping. Technologies we’re using: Angular 1 & 2 / Ionic / Cordova ES6 / Babel / TypeScript / SCSS / LESS Gulp / Protractor / Jasmine / Karma Android / iOS Jira / Bamboo / Git RESTful JSON backend (Java / MySQL / AWS ) Great if you have… Experience working as a JavaScript developer Working experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework, ideally AngularJS Experience with CSS, HTML5 across multiple browsers and devices. Significant working experience with – and a desire to work using – agile methodologies (e.g. Kanban, XP, Scrum, Continuous Delivery). Working experience with automated testing (e.g. TDD/BDD & related tools). Experience working in a mobile environment Experience in using and setting up automated build infrastructure (e.g. Bamboo with AWS) Experience building hybrid mobile apps (e.g. Cordova / Ionic) Experience with iOS & Android development.