Java Web Developer

Overview Of Job
The Commercial Technology team develops and maintains the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business.
In this role, you will find yourself working closely with a suite of microservices developed using Java 11+ (mostly Java 17), Spring Boot, some of which will be event-driven. You will contribute towards the technical lifecycle of these services, including the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Terraform), running the services in Kubernetes (EKS on AWS), and monitoring/alerting in a production environment (Prometheus/Grafana).
We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment!
3 Best Things About The Job

• Work on an interesting domain, with an evolving modern tech stack.
• Work in an agile team, where you have the time, freedom, and autonomy to solve complex problems.
• Work closely with stakeholders and the product team to continuously deliver value to the organization.
  

Measure of Success - in the first few months, you would have:

• Contributed towards the delivery of several features that provide business value.
• Contributed towards several code reviews, providing feedback and actioning feedback from others.
• Gained a proven understanding of the business context and how it relates to the deliverables of the team.
• Gained a basic understanding of the team's system architecture.
  

Responsibilities Of The Role

• Developing features for the business and building on the platform architecture to support future features on the roadmap.
• Collaborating with the development team: You will work closely with other developers, software architects, and product owners to understand project requirements, discuss implementation approaches, and ensure smooth integration of various software components.
• Following coding standards and best practices: You will adhere to established coding standards, development processes, and best practices to ensure consistent and high-quality code.
• Assisting in software deployment and maintenance: You may assist in the deployment of services to production environments, troubleshoot issues that arise, and provide support to end-users as needed.
  

What You Will Need
The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• Expertise in Java 11/17, Spring Boot, RDBMS, and noSQL persistence technologies. Although this role focuses on Java, we use other languages too, so a willingness to learn them would be encouraged.
• Exposure to publish-subscribe technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SNS/SQS.
• Experience in writing well-tested code.