Lead Java Developer

Responsibilities

• Working with teams across the organisation to architect, design, and implement solutions
• Designing, developing and productising components and services that make up our Customer’s Product – a fully automated platform and CD stack we use to bootstrap and accelerate Customer Journey Engineering
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Develop, test and deliver solutions for customers that provide highly scalable and repeatable integrations
• A true “roll up the sleeves and get it done” working approach; a problem solver, operating as a result-oriented, self-starter
• Leveraging your broad technology capability set and develop, and iteratively deploy real enterprise class software
• Bringing a true DevOps, SRE and Agile mindset to the team – showing what it means to focus on continuous improvement and removal of waste, resulting in a team that can stun clients with their ability to deliver excellent solutions at pace

Skills & Experience

• Must have:
• Strong problem-solving skills and hands on experience with data structures and algorithms
• Very strong object-oriented design skills and understanding of well-engineered design and running of microservices in a modern technology stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Helm etc.)
• Core Java (with Java 8 features) + Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture, Web Services, REST, JPA, Hibernate
• Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures and common Design patterns (Kafka streaming and Pub-Sub desirable)
• Delivering high quality, low complexity code including proven expertise in unit testing, component testing, and BDD frameworks (e.g. Cucumber)
• Proven GCP experience
• GitHub
• Practical experience of CI/CD tools and practices (e.g. Jenkins and Harness)
• Strong communication skills and experience with stakeholder engagement and management
• Database Experience (at least one of Big Query, Spanner, PostgreSQL, SQL/No SQL)