Java Software Engineer

Job Role: Senior Java Developer
Duration: Fulltime & Contract - 12 months plus
Location: Glasgow, UK (Hybrid Model: 3 days per week in office)
Experience level: Minimum 4-12 yrs

Mandatory skills:

Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, problem solving as core skillset with knowledge of databases and design patterns, and some hands-on experience on UNIX. The candidate needs to be a self-starter, a confident personality with good communication skills who can work with minimum oversight and handholding.

Key Responibilities:

• Proactively contribute to enhancing our current applications that are written in Java 17.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems/requirements into technical specifications.
• Comfortable with working autonomously in a high trust environment, but equally important to be able to build collaboratively with members of the team.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Core understanding of streaming in Java and how to leverage it with AWS proprietary services.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot framework.
• Implement various architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, cloud-native).
• Databases: Basic knowledge of SQL. Familiarity with non-relational databases.
• Communication Skills: Good oral and written English communication skills are required for this role. A successful candidate must be able to work alongside the users and the wider developer community in the firm and should also be able to communicate effectively with them.

Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree.
• A deep understanding of AWS for cloud solutions.
• A strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong relational database skills using Postgres.
• Proficient in using Kafka as the message broker.
• Nurture, guide and mentor junior members of the team. Nice to Have:
• Experience with Java 21.
• Experience with Cloud Migration strategies.
• Experience with Kafka Streaming.
• Experience with Argo CD.
• Experience with Gitlab for CI/CD processes.
• Experience with Behaviour Driven Design writing automation test cases in Cucumber.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information