Candidate Requirements

This is an excellent chance to flex your Java Development and communication skills plus grow your career within a respected company that will offer the chance to work on varied projects.

Our client is looking for a Java Developer with proven skills in web centric Java Development with Java 8 and above and some of Spring, Spring Boot and Play Frameworks.  Proven skills in Agile such as working pairing, CI / CD, TDD, and the ability to write clean code to work on complex projects are also a requirement.

As a Java Developer you will have skills in the majority of:

·         Strong skills in Java 8 or higher such as 11

·         Java Software engineering and design of web centric software solutions using clean code / SOLID principles

·         Strong communication skills to liaise, advise and work with clients / stakeholders

·         Experience as a Senior Developer in mentoring /coaching developers / technical leadership or supporting less experienced client teams

·         Java web frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot or Play

·         Experience in creating web services / API's such as RESTful, JSON etc

·         Database skills with RDBMS or NOSQL datastores

·         Experience of Agile Development practices such as pair programming, planning poker / estimation, CI or CD, IoC, TDD, BDD

·         Knowledge of Software Integration Design Patterns

·         Any experience with DevOps / development infrastructure and development tools such (Git, Jenkins, source control, story boards, wiki)

·         Ability to communicate and relate with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable skills:

·         Experience of attending or speaking at meetups of technology events

·         Development skills in other JVM development languages such as Groovy or Scala

·         Awareness of cloud providers and cloud technologies such as AWS

·         Development skills with scripting languages such as Ruby or Python

·         Web technologies (HTML, Typescript, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX) and web infrastructure (Apache HTTP/web server, servlet containers, caching, proxies, security, CDNs

·         Understanding of different software architectures

·         Exposure to Agile modelling