Job Description
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