Senior Java Developer

Overview of Role

Inspired is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual who has at least 5 years + in the field of software development with at least 2 + years of senior level experience.

Strong Java / J2EE and SQL skills are required as well as demonstrable experience of MVC frameworks, Spring/ Hibernate and client-side in JavaScript.

Working closely with key stake holders - Architecture Team, Product team, Teams leads, Development manager and responsible for the quality and on time delivery as per product roadmap.

Technical Skills

Core Java (8 or higher versions)

Multithreading experience

Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot

ORM tools Hibernate

Web services – REST, SOAP

Angular JS

Node JS

SQL (Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL (MongoDB)

Cloud Computing (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure etc)

CI, CD, Docker, Ansible etc

Specific Responsibilities / Key Tasks

• Work closely with the developers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
• Coordinating closely with your team to stay aligned on business goals and make sure your squad is progressing and delivering against them.
• Supporting and coaching junior team members to reach their highest technical levels.
• Ensue the software quality, performance, system scalability and high availability through architectural decisions and best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps to build a comprehensive set of CI/CD pipelines that allow the team to deliver features on a continual basis.
• Maintaining detailed specifications of software components and assets
• Ensuring platform performance goals are met
• Keeping up on industry trends and communicating opportunities, weaknesses and threats from a technology perspective to the management.

Competencies

• Proficient in Java, with a excellent knowledge of its ecosystems
• Experience using cloud based server-less technologies, message queues, caching technology, object storage solutions, data storage solutions (relational and NoSQL), API gateways, containers and container eco systems
• Commitment to software practices of Continuous Integration and automated testing.
• Commitment to incorporating quality software practices into all phases of the project life lifecycle
• Good understanding of key AGILE concepts and/or experience with leading or operating in an AGILE environment.
• Proven track record of strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Knowledge of network protocols and Internet topology
• Experience with SVN/Git based source control
• Strong creative, organizational and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Hands on approach and self-motivated

Person Specification

• 4 years serious development work in a team of developers
• Extensive experience of complete software lifecycle
• Distributed environment experience
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good team player