Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer

Location: Leeds is preferred, but can be based in Birmingham, Blackpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 60 % in the office.

Contract Length:12 Months

Rate: £700 per day inside IR35

BPSS required, but candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance

Looking for an outstanding Java Developer who can make a positive impact and wants to contribute to the most demanding and exciting new digital service for the UK Government. You must be ready to quickly get to work within an Agile, multidisciplinary team of Developers, Designers, and Analysts.

Essential skills/experience:

• Recent experience with Java 17 (or later).
• Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD.
• Experience with large microservice architectures.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use.
• Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
• Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
• Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design.

Desirable skills:

• Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
• Experience of MongoDB or other document databases.
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites.
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.

This is an urgent requirement and will move quickly for the right person. Apply now for immediate consideration.