Java Software Engineer

Start date: ASAP (Urgent!!)

Location: London, UK

On site Requirement: 3 times per week

Contract Inside IR35

Software Development Engineer

About the role

Ours is a globally distributed, full stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:

• Java, RxJava, SpringBoot
• Kafka, PostgreSQL and Couchbase
• Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic
• Azure Cloud

We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle. We maintain a DevOps culture employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.

You will be responsible for

We are seeking highly skilled Software Development Engineers (SDEs) for a project to drive the design, development and implementation of software solution for next generation customer fulfilment system. As a key member of our engineering team, you will develop robust, scalable and efficient java-based applications to optimise warehouse operations and drive operational success. You will directly contribute to evolving product, reducing cost and increasing profitability.

Design and Develop: Architect and build high-performance applications.

System Optimisation: Collaborate with cross functional teams to enhance system efficiency, scalability and reliability for mission critical applications.

Integration: Develop APIs and microservices to integrated with enterprise API and third-party platforms.

Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and well documented code, adhere to best practices and coding standards.

Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in real-time to ensure un-interrupted operations.

Mentorship: guide junior engineers and foster culture of continuous improvement.

Innovation & Collaboration: Stay ahead of industry, work closely with hardware, data scientists and operation team.

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

• Previous experience of having done product development using agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
• Any previous experience of having contributed in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Tech Skills

• Programming
• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice.
• Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
• Comfortably debug/find complex problems

• Design
• Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
• Understand Idempotence
• Actively practice the boy scout principle, leaves design, code in a better state than when arrived
• Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
• Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consist
• Understand how to design for performance at all levels

• Development Practice
• Automate everything by default
• Build a CI/CD pipeline

• Tech Stack Specialization
• Java, Spring boot
• Kafka
• Postgres
• Couchbase
• CI/CD: Azure pipelines / Git Actions.
• Cloud: Azure