Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs
• Help to design and implement serverless patterns from containerized applications
• Build industry standard APIs and help with establishing, consuming & routing calls, connectivity protocols and policy
• Design, develop and implement architecture patterns that are optimized for SLAs, reliability, and cost
• Look upstream and downstream to see around corners and anticipate future consequences for immediate technical choices
• Technical definition and implementation to capture data for operational analytics and downstream trend analysis
• Help to establish and grow a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including TDD/BDD and Test Automation (both Unit and Integration), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
• Drive performance improvements including monitoring, detailed metrics, problems, trends, and costs, in order to determine solutions, required process changes, etc. that will make the function more efficient
• Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development
• Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve
• Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding
• Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts
• Create usable documentation/playbook(s)
• Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs – communicate these across the team
• Optimize pace and meet deadlines

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Modern Application Development using Java, Java8, Jpa, Microservices, Spring boot, Hibernate, Rest
• Extensive experience in commercial software development with Microservices/API as a senior developer.
• Extensive Java development experience at an enterprise level (Spring Boot, Java 8+, Spring, system integration, transaction management, performance tuning, system support, troubleshooting and problem resolution). API development and integration (REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, message queues).
• Database systems (Oracle, SQL Server). Experience with Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration system in WebSphere and Openshift Container platforms (Docker, Openshift).
• CI/CD pipeline automation (Jenkins). Extensive experience working in an agile environment (ideally Scrum).
• Experience with QA review process using source control tools Bitbucket and Github. Experience with Design patterns.
• Must experience with TDD, unit and integration tests (JUnit)
• Experience of micro service testing.
• Experienced working in, or within self-organising teams
• A technical knowledge and understanding of relational databases, web services, messaging, stubbing, Unix commands