Satalia
Lead Java Developer – Azure UK Permanent

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Lead Java Developer – Azure
Role type: Permanent
Location: UK / Remote
About the Role
Lead Java Developer required to join our Satalia team.
As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. Satalia, a WPP company is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.
Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, Satalia’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.
The Role
Satalia produce a number of industry leading logistics optimisation solutions. For this role, we are looking for a strong engineer who will play a leading part in the development of a new platform for one of the country’s most recognisable field operations providers. You will ensure that we are using the latest technology and the best approaches while still delivering a stable and highly reliable product.
What you’ll be doing:
- Responsible for creating an enterprise quality Optimisation and ML based solution.
- Involved in technology selection, API design, and establishing core patterns within our products and client projects.
- Consider the functional and non-functional requirements to inform these decisions and lead our development team in implementing them.
- Work with our world class Optimisation, Data Science and Data Engineering teams to provide robust, high quality, performant cloud based solutions for our customers.
- Prove solutions and contribute to the development team, as well as reviewing code and driving improvement to our development practice and processes.
- Communicate directly with our clients and business stakeholders, which are a mixture of technical and non-technical audiences.
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Responsibilities
- Writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape.
- Creating hybrid serverless and containerised solutions to execute optimisation, data science and ML models.
- Contributing to existing deployment pipelines and cloud IaC deployment packages.
- Understanding and relating customer/business needs to the technical solutions we create.
- Liaising with the customer, product owners and programme architects to ensure that the work we are doing is correct and architecturally sound.
- Making technology and approach choices to meet NFRs whilst delivering good value for money.
Requirements
- Excellent understanding of Java 17+, Spring and Spring Boot.
- In-depth knowledge of Azure including a good understanding of both containerisation and serverless technologies.
- Experience writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape.
- Solid understanding of traditional Design Patterns and the ability to adapt these to the AI world.
- Strong proponent for rigorous quality processes, automated testing and IaC principles.
- Excellent written, spoken and diagrammatic communication skills, with the ability to convey technical and abstract principles to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Industry experience with an Infrastructure-as-Code platform (e.g. Terraform).
- Strong understanding of both serverless development and containerisation approaches to deploying software to the cloud.
- Working knowledge of Python and Terraform - you will be working with Data and Platform specialists and we encourage cross-functional collaboration over silos.


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Benefits
- Enhanced pension, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare.
- Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works.
- Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym.
- Generous Leave - 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
- Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well.
- Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change.
- People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person.
- Transparent and open culture - you will be heard.
- Development - focus on bringing the best out of each other.
Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.
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