Senior Java Developer

at  Morgan McKinley

As a Senior Java Developer, you will play a crucial role in the development, architecture, maintenance, and technical direction of the organisations cloud-based services. You will have the opportunity to be a hands-on developer responsible for the end-to-end product design and delivery process, from concept to continuous deployment.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years’ experience in Software Engineering space.
• Coding in Java or other backend OO languages.
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and integration of testing frameworks.
• Relational / non-relational databases, such as MySQL, MariaDB, Arango DB, Snowflake and MongoDB.
• Backend microservice development, including REST and asynchronous messaging (Rabbit).
• Experienced with one or more cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Designing highly scalable APIs and available distributed systems with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with leveraging analytics, monitoring, observability software to drive decision making.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable performing code reviews, coaching, and mentoring engineers.
• Passionate about working on complex problems, understanding root causes and developing effective and efficient resolutions.
• Passionate about delivering high quality software and processes whilst meeting security best practices and standards.
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE (DESIRABLE, NON-ESSENTIAL):

You have experience with:

• Mobile Technologies
• Web Technologies
• Embedded Technologies
• Data Science or AI
• Node.js

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

THE ROLE:

• Work closely with internal teams across the Embedded, Mobile, Web and Architecture space on technical direction of the Cloud.
• Bringing a ‘Quality First’ mentality and cultivating a willingness to take on new tasks as they arise.
• Participate in code reviews across multiple services and languages.
• Gather and define specifications and requirements based on technical needs.
• Work independently and collaboratively with team members.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Help teams with root cause analysis of performance & scalability issues and contribute code to help address these issues.
• Contribute to using development tools, CI, source control and tracking system.