Senior Java Developer Permanent

Senior Java Engineer – Java, AWS, Microservices, REST API’s, Kubernetes, Remote

These are permanent positions and can be worked on a remote basis (must be based in the UK).

Due to their clients, you must be eligible to gain UK Government Security Clearance.

Working for a one of the fastest growing digital data consultancies. They work across both the central government and private finance sectors. Their products allow data transformation into ultra-secure cloud based environments used by large enterprises and government sectors.

Experience and stack

• JAVA programming experience as the core language, including Spring Boot.
• Experience with Kafka or a similar platform.
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
• Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
• AWS
• Microservices
• REST APi’s
• TDD
• CI/CD

As a Java Software Engineer, you will help lead the development of backend services for a specific government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies. This will involve designing, developing, documenting and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.

Key tasks:

• Design, develop, document, and deploy new or enhanced features to their backend services
• Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories
• Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them
• Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns