Senior Java Software Engineer

Core Java Developer

Job Type: Contract (INSIDE IR35) Sector: Financial Services Location: London (Hybrid 8 days per month onsite) Duration: 12 months (scope for extension) Rate: £550 - £600 per day (INSIDE IR35)

We are specifically seeking individuals with strong Core Java expertise, as these roles primarily involve server-side development.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event based and service oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
• Lead delivery of a coherent end to end IT solution that meets both functional and non functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
• Ensuring end to end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
• Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
• Undertaking hands on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; The successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues.

Qualifications

Crucial Candidate Traits: The successful candidate will have demonstrable solutions design and development skills and experience alongside validated strong systems development experience at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle.

Technical Skills

• Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live implementation and post implementation support.
• Strong hands on Object Oriented Design skills
• Strong core Java programming skills
• Experience of developing services/micro services in Java
• Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands on SpringBoot skills
• Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
• Hands on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem
• Experience of profiling and performance tuning
• Experience of Behaviour Driven and Test Driven development principles and skills
• Experience of Public Cloud development

Soft Skills

• Have the ability to motivate those you mentor, coach & lead
• Be a stand out colleague and role model, willing to participate in peer reviews and to be reviewed by peers
• Be reliable, self motivated and able to work without close management and supervision
• Possess inspiring communication and presentation skills to present proposals both orally and in writing
• Have the demonstrable ability to complete work within agreed timescales and identify problems and provide the most suitable solution(s)