Responsibilities & Duties:

• Deliver new features that meet the business and customer requirements, work with various stakeholders to establish requirements and deliver solutions. Providing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Support the operation of live services by debugging and troubleshooting issues, and communicating with customers to resolve them.
• Drive process improvements, there is scope to update the J8 legacy build into our modern CI pipeline, including building in TeamCity and deploying to Kubernetes with automated testing.
• Provide occasional on-site training and support, normally around “go live” for new sites.
• Collaborate with other team members to develop and maintain documentation e.g. design specifications and API documentation.

Skills

Required

• Java 8 upwards
• Data serialisation languages: e.g., XML, JSON, YAML
• Relational Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• ORM Frameworks: Hibernate/JPA
• Technical Documentation writing
• ORM Frameworks: Hibernate/JPA
• Experience of working within a Quality System
• Experience of High Availability architectures

Desirable

• Cloud based deployments
• Continuous Delivery e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles and practices.
• Software Testing Frameworks: e.g., NUnit, TestNg, Selenium
• Experience with J8 legacy applications
• Spring Boot or other IOC Application Framework
• Microservice Architectures and development
• Experience of other programming and scripting languages
• Knowledge/experience of deploying to and/or managing cloud service environments, e.g., Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.