Java Developer

Responsibilities

• Continued enhancement of the customer facing product portfolio based on customer feedback.
• Continued development and support of Customer Facing products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that’s focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.
• Requirement for software development services
• Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in re-quired, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
• Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.
• Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests – with appropriate code coverage – and code analysis using code quality tools.
• Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc.
• Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.
• Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
• Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.
• Support and deliver the disaster recover assurance of digital services, striving to-wards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.

Essential Skills

• Java 11+
• Python 3
• Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices
• Spring security and OAuth2.
• JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.
• Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations.
• OpenShift
• Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres.
• Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:
• Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
• Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
• Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
• Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures.
• Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
• Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.
• Working in Agile delivery models.
• Defining infrastructure as code.
• Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, and high-quality interfaces.
• Code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools.

Desirable Skills

• AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK
• Typescript