Java Software Engineer (Must hold active SC)
Location: Remote
The Company:
At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.
Your role:
You will apply a software engineering mindset to problems, whether that’s provisioning services, writing code or writing automation tools and scripts. You will have a lean mindset, striving to build reliable and performant services that are operationally sound. You will strive to do things better and faster, eliminating waste and applying this across the entire software delivery lifecycle for both internal customers and end users.
What you’ll do:
You will be responsible for delivery business outcomes, from requirements into production environment.
You will have responsibility for all aspect of your code through to production, including performance, security. You build it, you run it.
You will be comfortable working as part of team, and helping the team deliver high quality code
You will have a knowledge of Software architecture and how to apply it to business problems
Advocacy and education: Help raise the bar for development teams, helping them learn and become self-sufficient, automating processes, you will interact with platform teams and impart knowledge of the Software development process.
Apply an automation approach to your work. You will be involved in everything from CI, CD, security tooling, code quality tools, deployment tooling
You’ll provide technical support for the transition of applications into live service and support.
Your skills and experience
Experience with some of the following would be desirable:
* Java (Spring Boot), software design patterns, DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
* Postgres, Liquibase for database versioning
* Containerisation with Docker
* CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Gradle)
* API design with Swagger/OpenAPI
* TDD (JUnit, Mockito), high code quality standards
* Kafka for event-driven architecture
* React, TypeScript
Diversity & Inclusion:
Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:
Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.
Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.
By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.
This role at Amber Labs is a 12 month perm FTC, and all employees (Must hold current active SC Clearance). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type.
What Happens Next?
Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.