Senior Java Developer, Manchester

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We have our ii open for our next Senior Java Developer...

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer who is excited by building highly scalable, highly available, performant distributed applications to support our web, mobile, and business supporting platforms.

We are looking for a developer who is excited at building Spring Boot microservice and serverless applications on AWS and deploying small changes often.

You will have a proven skillset that spans Java, OOO, DDD, Spring Boot and a passion for quality and testing.

You will join our Application Engineering team who are responsible for architecting and building our web, mobile, content, trading, and internal applications working closely with product and the wider business.

Responsibilities:

• As part of the engineering team, provide direct support for ensuring solutions for the squads are architected in line with the strategic alignment of the technology area.
• Ensure the smooth transition of technical solutions and knowledge to the wider team at all levels of technical capability.
• Support the discovery, architecture, and design of new and more complex solutions and patterns for their delivery stream.
• Work with the Principal Developers to establish new patterns and architectural designs, or support significant change to existing solutions.
• Support architecture decisions and solution design processes to an aligned strategy outlined across all technology disciplines where solutions integrate.
• Contribute towards enabling a culture of technical development and innovation within the team through fit-for-purpose solution design and R&D activities.
• Enable the development of technical skills within the squad and team through knowledge transfer of emerging technologies and modern ways of working, whilst ensuring that high standards remain at the forefront.
• Ensure that architectural solutions are aligned to the controls outlined by the control standards applicable to the solutions developed within the team.
• Support the definition of change-specific NFR considerations as part of any solution design or architectural decision.
• Ensure there is a clear alignment to assigned solutions within the change/priority pipeline, managing these priorities and raising any risks appropriately.
• Support the full development cycle of solution designs to all disciplines, including testing.
• Proactively seek to identify efficiencies around process, solutions, and technology.
• Provide direct support for the Engineering Manager and Principal Developer by taking ownership of and managing delegated subsets of the technical domain.
• Ensure risk considerations are applied to any solution design/architectural decision, highlighting considerations and options as part of any documented solution.
• Ensure full stack security considerations are included in all architectural decisions and subsequent solutions.
• Perform the role of a 'code guardian', ensuring that the quality of code delivered through the team meets high standards, while supporting the development of individuals in the team to consistently meet these standards.

Requirements:

• Proven experience and background working within a development environment for the technology area.
• Proven experience working within a regulated environment.
• Proven experience working in financial services or stockbroking.
• Previous experience delivering change to business-critical, highly available customer-facing platforms.
• A broad technical background, with proven experience supporting diverse technical integrations.
• Experience supporting the delivery of change across the full project lifecycle from initiation to live support.
• Experience delivering successful change through different methodologies including agile and waterfall.
• Experience delivering change onto traditional DC-based change/release platforms, as well as cloud-based 'DevOps' managed environments.
• Experienced in working in a high-pressure, time-critical operating environment.
• Experience of supporting the critical applications of a customer-facing digital business.
• Proven experience working autonomously and owning assigned project deliverables.
• Experience of supporting business-critical solutions and systems running on cross-platform technology stacks in a production environment.
• Experience delivering change through Build, Dev and QA to Production, using automation.

Skills:

• Excellent time management and prioritization.
• Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to all levels including exec.

Technical Skills:

• Excellent software development, software architecture, and technical delivery skills in:
• Java Development including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development and Java training presentation skills.
• Distributed Systems and architectural experience of microservices, event-driven architectures, and serverless.
• Kafka, Mongo, Elastic Search, and Redis.
• AWS Cloud including step functions, lambda, and general AWS architecture.
• The whole Spring ecosystem including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud AWS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Streams.