As I’ve mentioned here, I’m the Development Manager at the Hut Group. We are currently the UK’s fastest growing technology company, and the third largest online retailer in the UK.
Our goal is to be the largest online retailer in Europe over the next couple of years. We have an excellent development team already but we need to grow to deliver the systems the business needs to support this level of growth.
We are also changing the way we work as a team. We are in the process of introducing Agile development to help us work more closely with the business and to enable us to deliver higher quality software more quickly.
We develop all of our systems in house, from our websites, through buying, content and finance, to our warehousing systems. As you can imagine, there is a huge breadth of systems we use. We are also building a retail platform that we can offer to our customers to enable them to power their systems.
It’s an exciting time to be working at the Hut. We’ve grown massively over the last few years, and this growth is accelerating. We are looking for expert developers, web developers and testers to work with us to deliver this growth. We develop in Java, but getting the right person is more important. Whilst we are looking for expert developers, equally important is the ability to communicate effectively.