Senior Java Engineer

Work as part of the software engineering team that:

• sets the standards for software coding, testing and quality.
• collaborates closely with the team’s BA’s and PO’s on the efficient transition of Behaviour Driven Development and Swaggers as part of the overall workflow.
• defines the scope, timeline, and goals for the delivery of working software.
• transcribes comprehensive documentation.
• provides support with production cutovers and migrations as required.
• analyses and resolves technical and application problems.
• Supporting the Scrum Master
• Participate in and provide support in all scrum related ceremonies.
• Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software.
• Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process.
• Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects.
• Providing Guidance and Mentoring
• Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Provide technical guidance to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team.

General

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Confidence to express ideas as part of a creative team.
• Excellent communication (written, oral) and interpersonal skills.
• A Self-Starter capable of working under pressure.
• Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development.
• Excellent coding ability.
   

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years hands on experience designing and developing microservices.
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience with API concepts and technologies.
• 5-7 years of experience with system integration.
• Experience developing within an agile methodology.
• Experienced in 3-tier, n-tier, cloud computing, microservices architectures and Service Oriented Architecture.

A senior Developer with 7+ years experience with the following skills:

• Atlassian Suite: Jira, Confluence.
• Microservices with Spring-boot / Java 8+.
• Spring cloud config.
• Unit tests with Spring-boot.
• Postman teams and Newman (Command line runner).
• Openshift / Kubernetes / Docker.
• Understanding of API gateways.
• OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.
• Understanding of networking concepts.
• Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP, REST, YAML etc).
• CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc).
• APIGEE API Gateway.
• Azure DevOps.

The following additional skills would be advantageous:

• Spring reactive
• Pivotal Kubernetes
• Linux
• Azure Pipelines
• Data Modelling.