Java Developer

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We have our ii open for our next Java Developer...

We are looking for a Java Developer who is excited by building highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile and business supporting platforms.

We are looking for a developer who is excited at building Spring Boot microservice and serverless applications on AWS and deploying small change often.

You will have a proven skillset that spans Java, OOO, DDD, Spring Boot and a passion for quality and testing.

You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate in squad with scrum masters, product owners, analysts and testers to deliver world class functionality to customers
• Uphold the best standards in code quality with unit, integration and end to end tests
• Have a Dev Sec Ops mindset and make sure all code adheres to security best practices
• Focus on design to produce excellent solutions at pace
• Further the team technically by contributing to best practices and pro actively showcase new patterns and ways of working
• Coach and mentor other developers in the team
• Provide BAU support for the applications. Work with Analysts to help answer technical/business questions. Support DevOps to investigate and resolve any live application issues
• Provide out of hours support for the applications on a scheduled basis
• Working to a Service First Culture ensuring that IT does all it can to impact Customer and Employee satisfaction levels
• Treat customers fairly at all times
• Build and maintain close working relationships with key IT and business partners to ensure a collaborative working environment
  
  
  

Requirements

• Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area
• Any experience working within a regulated environment or Financial services or stockbroking
• Previous experience delivering change to business critical, highly available customer facing platforms
• A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations
• Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support
• Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall
• Experienced in working in a high-pressure, time critical operating environment
• Experience of supporting the critical applications of a customer facing digital business
• Experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables
• Experience of supporting business critical solutions and systems running on cross-platform technology stacks in a production environment
• Experience delivering change through Build, Dev and QA to Production, using automation
  
  
  

Skills:

• Excellent time management and prioritisation
• Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels including exec
  
  

Technical Skills:

• Software development, software architecture and technical delivery skills in:
• Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and Java training presentation skills
• Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event driven architectures and serverless
• Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search and Redis
• AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda and general AWS architecture
• The whole Spring ecosystem included Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams
• DevOps, containers, kubernetes