Java backend developer

Location: Reading Job Type: Contract Industry: Digital Workspace Job reference: BBBH435655_1774372140 Posted: about 10 hours ago

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:

1. Experience with Java 8, Java 11, Java 17 Spring Framework, Spring Boot
2. Practical Relational Database development experience with Oracle and PL/SQL
3. Experience of using JEE standards such as CDI, JPA and JMS
4. Practical Microservices development experience on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and understanding of microservices design patterns
5. Practical experience of development using RabbitMQ and IBM MQ
6. REST APIs
7. Strong understanding CI and DevOps technologies (Hands-on experience on Git, Jenkins, and Ansible/Terraform preferred)
8. Practical experience on ELK stack, especially Kibana
9. Practical experience on AWS (ECS, EKS, API Gateway and Serverless technologies)
10. Agile development - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD

Nice to have Skills:

11. Good understanding of container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
12. Experience of AppDynamics
13. Experience of building web applications
14. Experience of Single page application frameworks (Angular/React)
15. Experience of Domain Driven Design
16. Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems
17. Experience working in 2nd - 3rd line live support engagements with complex systems architecture
18. Public Sector experience