Senior Java Developer

Skills/ experience:

-Recent experience with Java 21 (or later)
-Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD
-Experience with large microservice architectures
-Experience of working in an Agile environment
-Be willing to work in a pair programming environment.
-Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use.
-Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
-Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
-Be knowledgeable of tools and techniques used within the wider team.
-Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours.
-Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
-Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
-Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
-Understand of the use of Responsive Web Design.

It would also be desirable to have:

-Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.

-Experience of MongoDB or other document databases.

--Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites.

Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.