Java Backend Developer

Role: Java Backend Developer

Location: Reading or Leeds (Hybrid 1 day per week onsite)

Salary: £80k - £85k

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A unique development opportunity to work on a Public Sector Based Large Scale programme with an innovative market leader as a Java Developer.

We require a Java developer with strong Back End Java experience to develop new features for our portfolio of Government Clients. You will join a team that prides itself on collaboration and engineering the best possible Java code.

Must Have Skills:

• Experience with Java 8, Java 11, Java 17 Spring Framework, Spring Boot

• Practical Relational Database development experience with Oracle and PL/SQL

• Experience of using JEE standards such as CDI, JPA and JMS

• Practical Microservices development experience on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and understanding of microservices design patterns

• Practical experience of development using RabbitMQ and IBM MQ

• REST APIs

• Strong understanding CI and DevOps technologies (Hands-on experience on Git, Jenkins, and Ansible/Terraform preferred)

• Practical experience on ELK stack, especially Kibana

• Practical experience on AWS (ECS, EKS, API Gateway and Serverless technologies)

• Agile development - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD

Nice to have Skills:

• Good understanding of container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)

• Experience of AppDynamics

• Experience of building web applications

• Experience of Single page application frameworks (Angular/React)

• Experience of Domain Driven Design

• Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems

• Experience working in 2nd - 3rd line live support engagements with complex systems architecture

• Public Sector experience