Senior Backend Engineer (Java) (Long Term Contract | Remote)
IT - Software / DB / QA / Web / Graphics / GIS
About the Employer
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer (Java) x4 Long Term Contract, Remote
Immediate Start
Salary: negotiable, subjected to experience
We are looking for 4 x Backend Developers with good experience in building production grade real-time dynamic Cloud Services with Java. Our company is a highly successful leader in safety & security solutions around the globe.
This opportunity is a remote working long term contract role to join one of our UK based clients. You will work in an innovative, agile and multi-disciplined team to develop and deliver our proprietary safety & security solutions.
Contributing to the development process you will help generate delivery ideas and solutions whilst encompassing the full spectrum of design, coding, and testing. In addition, you will ensure successful delivery of key strategic objectives through the development of high-quality software.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of software engineers building high performance enterprise grade software systems.
- Deliver features and fix bugs using agile development practices and practicing engineering excellence.
- Work with inhouse and offshore teams to develop and deliver customer requirements.
- Share knowledge in modern, SOLID development techniques.
- Work under a TDD mind-set with regression testing at the heart of your development strategy.
- Produce code against our set of defined technical standards and processes.
- Work with product management and other members of the engineering and science teams to design and build world class software.
- Own a part of our platform through your design and code.
Essential Technical Skills & Experience
- At least 8 years of experience in building high performance enterprise grade distributed application using Java.
- Good experience in Git version control and release process best practices including CICD pipeline with Jenkins or related, and Github workflows.
- Expertise in web services and APIs (REST/GRAPHQL/GRPC, etc).
- Expertise in working with back end scalable systems, preferably with experience in JVM based languages.
- Microservices and microservice patterns and antipatterns.
- 5+ years of experience in Relational & Non-Relational Database Technologies.
- 5+ years of experience in containerisation (docker, Kubernetes) and deploying to a cloud platform (AWS).
- Strong understanding of object-oriented and functional programming concepts, data structure and algorithms.
- Understanding of enterprise design patterns and modular software development.
- Familiar with front-end development technologies such as JavaScript, React and Angular will be added advantage.
- Experience with bash and python scripting will be an advantage.
Essential Leadership & Other Skills
- Experience leading a small team of developers will be an advantage.
- Good knowledge in agile development practices.
- Good problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to be flexible and pragmatic.
- Team player.
- Passionate about great software.
- Excellent English language communication skills.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science or related field preferable but not essential.
To apply, please send your CV to [email protected] and use the job title as the e-mail subject.
