Role purpose:
- Design, develop and operationalize end-to-end applications to enable business to deliver on its objectives.
Experience:
- 6+ years’ experience in building java-based services
- Experience in either springboot or openliberty microprofile
- Good understanding of modern architecture and design patterns
- Experience with relational and No-SQL databases; Postgresql and MongoDB an advantage
- Good understanding of continuous delivery practices and automation
- Cloud experience will be an advantage
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field and/or appropriate courses and certifications
Design and implement Java-based services:
- Apply domain-driven design thinking together with architectural patterns to design and create robust services
- Apply REST API and event-based microservice best practices including API documentation, security best practices and other non-functionals.
- Apply authorization and access control to backend services using e.g. Oauth.
- Construct services using Java 1.8+ with JEE 7 using openliberty and microprofile, or springboot.
- Package services with docker (knowledge of docker-compose a bonus)
- Use SQL (PostgresQL) and No-SQL (Mongodb) databases and write appropriate queries using either Mybatis, direct or an ORM tool e.g. JPA.
- Write unit and integration tests, including automated acceptance tests that can be executed via CD pipeline.
- Measure both code quality as well as operational monitoring and alerting using SonarQube, Prometheus and Grafana
- Use Git for source version control, applied to branching strategies
- Participate in code reviews and code-sharing. This may include pair programming, merge requests and more.
- Automate Continuous Integration through use of Gitlab, Jenkins or similar to implement a CI pipeline
- Conduct cloud deployments and coding of cloud-native applications for AWS as a provider.
COACH OTHER Java DEVELOPERS:
- Conduct development code reviews with other developers and guide change.
- Collaborate by sharing knowledge, suggesting and fostering appropriate training and being willing to be a servant leader to other developers
- Able to include others in research and development work, set goals and guide initiatives in a practical way.
- Contributes towards with growing the team’s Continuous Delivery maturity, including team standards and engineering best practices
Desired Skills:
- Design
- Cloud
- No-SQL
- MongoD
- REST API
- Integration
- Java
- JEE-7
About The Employer:
Our client is in the Insurance/Finance Industry