Agile Developer

Agile Developer

Salary Dependent on Experience:

GBP30k-GBP55k to Very Attractive

London

Closing Date: 8th May 2015

Company Overview

Trainline is the UK's leading online provider of rail tickets and journey planning and sets the pace in mobile rail-commerce with its app ranked #1 in travel. Overall, trainline is the UK's 5th largest E-commerce player. To date, Trainline has very successfully helped British rail passengers to save money, time and hassle by providing the best place to plan & purchase rail travel.

The next chapter for Trainline is to broaden its services and to offer those to a wider range of travelers. Integrating beyond advanced purchase and beyond rail, Trainline will be a travel buddy in the traveler's pocket/bag, dynamically supporting them towards a personalized door-to-door journey experience which may include buses, taxis or other ground transport, for one-time trips or regular journeys (season tickets), and for both domestic trips or travel across international borders.

In January 2015, prior to partnering with KKR, Trainline announced an Intention To Float. The ITF document contains the fullest disclosure of its business yet made by the company.

It is widely available by googling Trainline ITF PDF. Some of the key highlights include:

• Growing Market: UK Rail GBP9bn growing at 6-7% pa
• o Driven by a long term modal' shift from road to rail
• Unlike rest of Europe, in the UK fully 87% of tickets are still bought at stations
• Trainline market leadership online
• o GBP1bn net ticket sales last year
• 26% EBITDA margin for the Consumer and B2B businesses,
• Strong Group cash conversion of over 103% in the last year
• 38% share of online consumer market - 13x the nearest competitor
• 17% Consumer net ticket sales growth pa last 2 years
• Accelerating over the last three quarters
• 4.7 million active customers; 80% sales from repeat customers
• Opportunity: evolve brand/experience to travel buddy in your pocket
• Mobile devices already ~70% of visits
• Mobile opportunity: more Real Time travel data, personalised UI, e-tickets
• Integration with other ground transport data for door-to-door

An increasingly customer-centric culture positions Trainline further to accelerate its growth by focusing on four major opportunities:

• Continuing to drive brand awareness.
• Accelerating mobile usability and functionality
• Driving the rollout and take up of e-ticketing
• Expand into Europe, particularly into the ???9.6bn cross border/foreign market

London Development

London Development together with Bangalore Development covers all thetrainline's systems. Those consist of retailing web-sites and channels, ticket fulfilment including ticket printing and electronic tickets, along with key Back Office applications such as refunds processing. We have 6-7 development teams in London Development, with each team typically having 6 developers, 2 QA developers and a BA.

The Team

The development team is responsible for design, development and implementation of new production systems and support and enhancements of existing systems.

Opportunity

Join a highly skilled development team, building and delivering software. Use agile practices (SCRUM, two weeks iterations) and XP techniques like BDD, continuous integration and pair programming. Get an opportunity to continuously improve our capabilities and processes. We encourage our technical staff to blog about technical innovation on thetrainline's engineering blog and to contribute code to the open source community. You are likely to get an opportunity to play table tennis, fly toy helicopters and shoot Nerf guns at your peers too.

Key Responsibilities

Delivering projects, developing great code, using the most appropriate tools and techniques.
Working with business analysts, product owners and colleague agile developers to review and set story and feature acceptance criteria
Implementing business functionality in a testable form
Continuously improving code base and removing technical debt

The Person

The ideal candidate will be an experienced software developer with a deep appreciation of the value of agile, automated build, testing and one-touch deployment.

Knowledge & Experience - Technical Skills

Essential

Agile development
XP practices
Hands on experience with .NET/C# and Visual Studio (.Net 3.5 or newer)
Full software development life cycle
BDD ingrained into work practices
Windows stack (IIS, SQL Server, MSMQ, AD)

Desirable

High traffic eCommerce retail
Go, Nant or similar CI tools
NUnit, SpecFlow, Fitnesse or similar tools
NHibernate
Oracle DBs
Experience and skill in mobile application development

Benefits include:
25 days holiday (plus Public and Bank Holidays), life assurance, Gymflex, Season Ticket loan, pension contributions, medical and dental insurance (subject to qualifying periods).