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Java Backend Engineer
Java Backend Engineers
Location: London (3 days a week, on-site at client office) – Permanent
Job Title: Java Engineer
As a Software Engineer, you will help to build world-class software by following consistent development practices, utilising tools, common components, and thorough documentation. Your contributions will span design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frameworks
- Participating in code reviews, testing, and other quality assurance activities
- Debugging basic software components and identifying code defects for remediation
- Enabling deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
- Automating deployments in test and production environments
- Scaling applications based on demand projections
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Minimum Qualifications
Experience
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Up to 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment, or comparable experience with the following:
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Must-have skills/experience:
- Good working knowledge of Java 8 and above (experience with Java 11 and Java 17 is a plus)
- Good working knowledge of Spring Boot for service development
- Good working knowledge of Kafka and its integrations
- Proficient in both SQL and NoSQL databases, including:
- *Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Couchbase
- Cassandra*
- Basic knowledge and understanding of tools like:
- Jenkins, Deployments, Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, GitHub
- Knowledge of microservice-based application development
- At least 5 years of combined experience in the above-mentioned technologies
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Good-to-have experience:
- Minimum of 1 year experience with the GoLang language
- Knowledge in reactive programming (e.g., Vert.x or equivalents)
- Working knowledge of testing frameworks:
- Cucumber for BDD
- JMeter for performance testing
- Experience in developing and managing applications for high transactions per second (TPS) and high availability
- Knowledge of caching mechanisms (a plus)
- Experience in Agile project methodologies
- Technical certifications in the relevant skill sets
- Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components
- Familiarity with Cloud computing
- Experience with:
- Event-driven Microservices architecture for high availability distributed systems
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- Other essential experiences:
- Experience with:
- Spring Framework
- JUnit
- GitHub
- Microservices
- Splunk
- APIs
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Unit testing frameworks usage
- Experience with:
Education
- University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
Skills
Mandatory Skills:
- Java
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
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