Java Software Engineer

Job Title :: Software engineer Grade F (Band C1+) - Java Lead

Job Location :: Edinburgh, UK (HYBRID)

Job Type :: Contract

JOB DESCRIPTIONS ::

· Be a technical leader within your feature team, providing day-to-day line management, as well as providing leadership in the wider Lab and community, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers, helping them to grow.

· Collaborate with product and engineering leads to realize the Lab’s vision and deliver customer outcomes through robust, scalable, and maintainable services that underpin exceptional customer experiences.

· Be curious about technology and look to foster a culture of innovation. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviors as we improve how we deliver.

What we’re looking for…

· A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery, helping to grow our junior engineers capabilities and understanding of target architectures and patterns.

· Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP.

· Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus & REST APIs, hosting microservices in a container orchestration platform such as Kubernetes. Any experience of mobile native development would be beneficial.

· Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.

· You will lead and inspire teams to explore, adopt and responsibly integrate AI-driven solutions to achieve great customer outcomes and improve our engineering experience.

· You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximize inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

· You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

What you’ll get to learn… (any previous experience would be advantageous)

· Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment