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Senior Java Backend Engineer

Red King Resourcing
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 8 days
Location

Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6SB, England

Salary

£65,000 - £70,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Senior Java Backend Engineer position offers a salary range of £65,000 to £70,000 and is located in Hampshire with a hybrid working model of 2 days per week in the office.
  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field and have experience in Information Technology or Software Engineering.
  • The role involves overseeing product design and implementation, managing risks, and mentoring early-career engineers.
  • Key responsibilities include analyzing, designing, coding, testing, and deploying new features while ensuring high quality and reliability.
  • Bonus points are awarded for experience with JavaSE 8 or above, microservices, digital payments, and various technologies such as AWS, Jenkins, and Kafka.
Senior Java Backend Engineer

Salary: 65,000 to 70,000

Location: Hampshire, Hybrid 2 days p/w

What You'll Do:

  • Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through, but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.
  • Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You'll Do It:

  • Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
  • Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
  • Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
  • Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
  • Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
  • Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
  • Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics:

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology
  • Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering or related
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements:


The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

  • Primarily remain in a stationary position.
  • No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
  • Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
  • Primarily performed indoors in an office setting
  • Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have:

  • JavaSE 8 or above development experience
  • Microservices development experience
  • Digital payments experience
  • Have used several testing frameworks such as Junit/Mockito/Gatling
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • RESTful APIs
  • Kafka
  • OpenShift/Kubernetes
  • Helm Charts
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Git

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