Java Technology Specialist

Role Responsibilities

• Commit to producing high quality, highly performant and robust software within agreed

time estimates and to agreed quality

• Produce spikes, documentation, designs, POCs, prototypes, code, diagrams, demo videos

etc. to help communicate the technical design to the Engineering team

• Organise handover and technical knowledge sharing sessions to break down silos in the

team.

• Work within a Scrum team and participate in all aspects of the methodology from Planning

to Retrospectives

• Work with Architecture and Engineering leads to help set the technical roadmap for the

product.

• Ensure that we use a software stack that best fits our product, our clients, and our Team

• Get buy in on the technical direction from the Engineering and Product Teams

• Onboarding new team members

• Removing technical blockers and championing good practices

• Participate in changes and continuous improvements to existing software development,

testing and deployment processes

• Help the Engineering team to estimate and plan better by giving them a clear understanding

of the technical scope.

• Implement continuous process improvements and templates so that we communicate in a

consistent way.

• Highlight risk and implement an appropriate risk response, e.g. mitigation through a spike,

confirm acceptance of risk etc.

• Provide feedback and direction during Sprint Reviews and Retros

• Attend clients calls to be the technical voice of the product

Qualities and Experience

• 10+ years professional experience

• Java 8+

• Spring & Spring Boot

• Hibernate

• Experience in Microservice architecture

• RESTful APIs, GraphQL

• Kubernetes, Helm

• Ansible

• Docker

• TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SASS, and related technologies

• Experience with Git and GitHub, Maven, AWS, and one or more major RDBMS preferably

Oracle

• Experience with Unit and Integration testing methodologies for efficient, comprehensive

validation

• Familiarity and experience with Agile methodologies

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to show flexibility and reach compromise where

appropriate

• Willingness to take ownership for assigned aspects of the project(s)

• Excellent verbal and written communications and an ability to work constructively in a

shared team environment

• Ability to innovate and iterate, willingness to fail fast

• A high standard of English

Desirable

• Experience with React

• Cloud Development

• PostgresQL

• Design Awareness, Web Usability and UX Skills

• Primary or Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related

discipline