Java, Spring Boot & AWS Software Engineer

Join us as a Java, Spring Boot & AWS Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge

Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions

It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business

Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning

Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability

Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions

Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. With a background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems, you’ll also have experience of implementing programming best practices, especially around code quality, scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

We’ll expect you to have an excellent understanding of code quality, best practices, maintaining high standards in software development. Exposure to Cloud deployment, preferably AWS is essential. 

Additionally, you’ll need:

Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis

Proficiency in coding with Java 17 and above, Microservices or API development using Spring Boot, containerization using Docker, TDD/BDD frameworks like Cucumber or Selenium to ensure code quality

Experience with relational and no-SQL databases like Postgres, MongoDB

Experience in using CI/CD, preferably Gitlab or Github, using Helm Charts to deploy on AWS Kubernetes clusters

Experience with KAFKA, MQ or any other event driven framework

Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets like JIRA or Confluence