Your Role: Junior Java Developer
The Commercial Technology team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business.
In this role, you will work closely with a suite of microservices developed using Java 17+ (mostly Java 21) and Spring Boot, of which some 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). You will also use persistence technologies like Mongo Db, Maria Db and OpenSearch.
As a Junior Developer you will be introduced to these technologies and encouraged to use them with a mixture of on the job training, self study and external courses. We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment!
As a Junior Java Developer at Global, You will:
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibility (50%): Developing features for the business and building on the platform architecture to support future features on the roadmap.
Key responsibility (50%): Collaborating with the development team: You will work closely with other developers and product owners to understand project requirements, discuss implementation approaches, and ensure smooth integration of various software components.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think big – Strive to do what hasn’t been done before
Learn – With the help of the team you will learn and grow
Own it – Take pride in what you do and do it well
Keep it simple – Keep it simple to get stuff done
Better together – We’re team players
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Contributed towards the delivery of several features which 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 team's deliverables.
Gained a basic understanding of the team’s system architecture.
Gained a basic understanding of our technologies and how to use them
What You’ll Need
Java Experience: in Java 17/21, This is our principal language and while we will train you in ancillary skills you do need to be able to write basic software in Java.
Awareness of: We use Spring Boot, RDBMS and noSQL persistence technologies. We do not expect you to be able to use these technologies you should be able to tell us what they are.
Awareness of: We use publish-subscribe technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or SNS/SQS. We do not expect you to be able to use these technologies you should be able to tell us what they are.
Awareness of: Experience in writing well-tested code. We expect you to have written some tests in the past.
Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team
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What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities.
On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
