Senior Java Developer

Our client is a leading IT Consultancy with offices in the UK and Europe looking to recruit a permanent Senior Java Developer with expert core Java 17 coding skills for our prestigious international client in the Entertainment sector.

The successful candidate will join an established and experienced Java Consultancy team. We pride ourselves on employing high-caliber IT consultants and software engineers, and this is a great opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Java Consultants around.

Key skills to have:

1. Experience of working on large, complex Enterprise systems
2. Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Java development including recent Java 17:
1. Deep knowledge of JDK 8 to 17
2. Expertise with Java libraries including Collections
3. Stream API
4. Memory management and performance tuning
5. Interceptors and Evaluators
6. Concurrency and Multi-threading
7. Design Patterns and Functional programming
8. Annotation Processors and Reflection
9. Java Security and advanced Exception Handling
3. Technical skillset: excellent core Java coding skills, IntelliJ IDE, IntelliJ debugging, Javadocs, SQL, Postgres, Hibernate, GIT Hub, JIRA, Web technologies, XML, Web Services, REST API, JSON, jQuery
4. An IT-related degree or similar qualification
5. Proven strong communicator, who is able to speak about technical matters in non-technical English with business stakeholders
6. Flexible, can-do attitude, capable of multi-tasking, structured approach, and works well within a team environment.

Nice to have skills:

1. Preferred additional technical skills: GraphQL, Sybase, Framework development experience
2. Experience of the Entertainment business domain
3. Good front-end development including HTML5, CSS3, TinyMCE

Main responsibilities of the successful candidate:

1. Java Enterprise and Web application development, enhancements, and problem resolution for large-scale business applications using IntelliJ IDE and associated debugging tools
2. Extensive use of Jira for managing teamwork load, Javadocs, and Wiki for documentation
3. Quality assurance including peer reviews, Unit and Integration testing
4. Release management including source control using GIT Hub
5. Attending and contributing to Agile scrum meetings and regular team operational meetings.