Role: Java Backend Developer
Location: Reading or Leeds (Hybrid 1 day per week onsite)
Salary: £80k - £85k
Active SC Clearance required
A unique development opportunity to work on a Public Sector Based Large Scale programme with an innovative market leader as a Java Developer.
We require a Java developer with strong back-end Java experience to develop new features for our portfolio of Government Clients. You will join a team that prides itself on collaboration and engineering the best possible Java code.
Must Have Skills:
- Experience with Java 8, Java 11, Java 17 Spring Framework, Spring Boot
- Practical Relational Database development experience with Oracle and PL/SQL
- Experience of using JEE standards such as CDI, JPA and JMS
- Practical Microservices development experience on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and understanding of microservices design patterns
- Practical experience of development using RabbitMQ and IBM MQ
- REST APIs
- Strong understanding CI and DevOps technologies (Hands-on experience on Git, Jenkins, and Ansible/Terraform preferred)
- Practical experience on ELK stack, especially Kibana
- Practical experience on AWS (ECS, EKS, API Gateway and Serverless technologies)
- Agile development - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD
Nice to have Skills:
- Good understanding of container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience of AppDynamics
- Experience of building web applications
- Experience of Single page application frameworks (Angular/React)
- Experience of Domain Driven Design
- Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems
- Experience working in 2nd - 3rd line live support engagements with complex systems architecture
- Public Sector experience
