Java Developer

Key Responsibilities 

• Build applications working on both front end and back-end technologies using various programming languages and development tools for the end users to use for their business needs
• Building software in accordance with the standards and guidelines 
• Responsible for the quality design and implementation (supportable, maintainable, scalable, performant, secure) of APIs delivering business value 
• Providing expertise regarding API technologies. 
• Ensuring builds are kept green and the code management strategy (branching) is closely followed. 
• Raising capability and standards within team; pairing on tasks, peer review of team members code and constructive feedback for improvement in both the code base and team capability (blame free feedback etc.) 
• Proactive contribution to continual improvements within your team through both active participation in retrospective and from engagement with cross team best-practice communities 
• Advisory to Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues and opportunities for the technical improvement 
• Supporting the recruitment of (developers) across the department 
• Technical support during cut-over activities 
• Providing continuous improvement suggestions in internal code frameworks, best practices and guidelines 

Key technical skills 

Must have 

• Minimum 6 12 years’ experience in building applications on Java 8.0+, J2EE stack 
• Hands on experience in developing scalable and robust RESTful APIs
• Hands on experience on frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JPA
• Deep knowledge of REST/SOAP
• Experience with Spring Boot, Microservice, Message Queues (JMS based)
• Any database knowledge SQL/NoSQL : Oracle 12c, MongoD, Cassandra, mySQL.
• Build effective unit and integration test cases using JUnit, Mockito
• Experience on Microsoft Azure App Services or Goggle Cloud.
• Experience with API Gateways and integrations (Apigee, Akana) 
• Spring Framework (Core, Boot, Reactive Stack and Servlet Stack) 
• Authentication standards and protocols (OAuth2, OpenID Connect) 
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus 
• Microservices Design & Development 
• API definition using Swagger 
• Experience in working in a cloud environment (Azure) 
• User Management in terms of authorisation (Role based access control implementations) 
• Strong Experience Using BDD and TDD approaches and tooling.
• Containerised Deployment – Docker, Kubernetes 
• Uses Secure by design principal.
• Messaging/Streaming – MQ, Kafka 

Desirable 

• Possess good understanding of UX & UI principles and should be able to apply them while building solutions.
• XSD design and implementation.
• Agile software development experience.
• Basic understanding of LLM and AI/ML.

Business skills 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Ability to translate between technical language and business language, and communicate to different target groups 
• Ability to understand complex design 
• Possessing the ability to balance and find compromises between opposing forces and opinions, within the development team 

Personal profile 

• Fact based and result-oriented 
• Ability to work independently with little guidance 
• Excellent verbal and written communication.