Able to communicate clearly and accurately on technical topics in English (verbal and written) Can write performant, testable, and maintainable JAVA code with 10+ years of proven commercial JAVA experience. Knowledge of best practice and patterns across the implementation, build and deployment of JAVA services. Proven extensive experience of Java ecosystem and related technologies and frameworks. o Spring Boot, Spring libraries and frameworks. o Hibernate o Maven Fluent in TDD and familiar with BDD Knowledge of Git, JIRA, Confluence, Maven, Docker and using Jenkins. Solid experience of working with RESTful services in microservices oriented architectures Solid knowledge of working within a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS Knowledge of NoSQL and relational database management systems, especially PostgreSQL Experience of building services within event or stream-based systems using either SQS, Kafka or Pulsar, CQRS Thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and software patterns