OUR PLACEMENTS

Placement summary

Diet Chef is part of a fast growing group of e-commerce companies specialising in food and drink including coffee, craft beer, meals and diet shakes and bars. The companies use modern web technologies including Python, Django, PostgreSQL and deploys on Amazon Web Services.  We're looking for a graduate to develop our website for existing customers to allow them to manage their orders with us directly rather than having to go through the customer service team. We would also like to add extra services for our customers such as weight and calorie tracking.

Job description

Project Description

The project will involve developing requirements by interviewing staff from customer services, operations and marketing. The usability and functionality of the existing site will need to be reviewed.

The next step will be to develop the software for order management, returns management, and integrate this with MyFitnessPal weight and exercise tracking. The development will be test driven with unit and integration tests as an integral part of the code.

Web design for the project will be done by an external agency.

Placement Objectives

The objectives are:

• Reduce the number of customer service enquiries as customers use self service instead.
• Improve the online customer experience.

This will result in increased customer satisfaction.

Role Description

Main Tasks:

• Gathering requirements
• Developing customer self service features
• Integrating with tracking and graphing API's
• Ensuring full test coverage of the code
• Working with external web designers
• Actively contribute to the development team and process

Qualifications

HND or Degree qualified in software engineering, computer science or similar.

Skills / Experience

Essential Skills

• Good knowledge of Python
• Familiar with web development
• Good analytical skills
• Capable of working without much supervision

Desirable Skills

• Git revision control
• Django
• SQL
• JavaScript
• Test driven development

Benefits

Company benefits

• Work for an award winning e-commerce company.
• Career development prospects.
• Attend and network at industry conferences and events.
• Generous holidays of 30 days increasing to 33 days after two years.
• Great working environment in the city centre.
• Company pension scheme.
• Car parking with reduced rate beside office.
• Your choice of a Mac, Linux or Windows laptop. 

Placement benefits

As part of the ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, you may have access to a tailored graduate business skills training course. ScotGrad placements also offer a unique opportunity to connect with a vast network of graduates and ScotGrad alumni. All graduates appointed through the programme are encouraged to make use of the ScotGrad LinkedIn group to communicate with other ScotGrad participants, learn about any professional development opportunities and build up a professional network.

Additional information

Location: Edinburgh City Centre

Planned interview date: TBC

This placement may result in a permanent employment afterwards

Preferred start date: 18th July 2016

Company information

Diet Chef is an award winning e-commerce company based in Edinburgh city centre. We run four websites with over 150,000 customers using them. It's a small team with a friendly atmosphere. We have our own beer garden and regular BBQ's.

Company sector: Food and Drink

Company website: https://www.dietchef.co.uk/