Senior Full stack Java Developer

About you:

We are looking for a conscientious, client-focused and technically proficient application developer with impressive analytic and communication skills; you should be comfortable with talking to clients and enjoy the variety of working on different projects.

You are passionate about what you do, enjoy being involved in the wider development community and will relish playing a pivotal role in helping to shape our culture and in embedding quality and best practices throughout the development process. You’ll be sharing your knowledge of tools and techniques within the team and leading discussion about how and where to use them. You’ll also have experience of mentoring junior developers, helping them adopt new approaches to problem-solving and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team.

You are likely to be someone with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, with exposure to the entire software life cycle. Any experience of enterprise-level applications and their integration with other systems would be desirable.

Responsibilities and Duties

Responsibilities include:

• Provide hands-on software development, working closely with our client teams using Agile development processes

• Provide technical expertise and software development for our expanding client-base

• Development planning and estimating

• Carrying out peer reviews

• Act as a champion for best practices and continuous learning

• Act as a mentor for junior members of the development team

• Working closely with the management team to shape our technical training and development.

Qualifications and Skills

Each project is never the same, but we are looking for full-stack and back-end Java developers in addition to front-end developers who can demonstrate technical expertise in any of the following:

• Back-end development (e.g. Java 8, Node.JS, JMS and ActiveMQ)

• Front-end development (e.g. Javascript, Angular.JS, React.JS, HTML 5, CSS 3, SASS)

• Understanding of enterprise architecture and integration patterns, styles and protocols (SOA, ESB, microservices and web/RESTful services)

• Integration technology (familiarity with Camel and/or Servicemix in particular)

• DevOps experience including automated environment build tooling (e,g, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, Ansible for Configuration Management), continuous integration (Jenkins), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux

• Testing tools and methodology (TDD and Capybara / Selenium, JUnit or TestNG)