Middle Java Developer for Ciklum Digital

Description

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, we are looking for a Middle Java Developer to join our team on a full-time basis.

You will join a highly motivated team and will be working on a modern solution for our client. We are looking for technology experts who want to make an impact on new business by applying best practices and taking ownership.

Project description:

Our client is one of the UKs leading fintech scale-ups. We are looking for a number of software engineers to join our rapidly expanding technology team. You will be part of a scaling business in a high-quality team that is working on new products and features while solving interesting technical challenges. In this role you will work in a cross-functional co-located team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have access to the latest technologies.

Responsibilities

• Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment
• Taking part in the decision-making process in application code design, solution development, code review
• Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
• Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
• Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements
• Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
• Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
• Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
• To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

• Experience in software development for more than 3 years
• Strong knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
  • Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID)
  • Database theory (RDBMS)
  • Code testing practices
  • Algorithms
  • Data structures
  • Design Patterns
• Understanding of network interactions:
  • protocols
  • conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
  • authentication and authorization flows
  • standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
• Strong knowledge and experience in Java  (ideally experience with Java 11)  (more than 2 years)
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • REST API development
  • Web application frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot Framework) (more than 1 years)
  • Testing frameworks (e.g.e.g. JUnit, PowerMock, WiresMock) (more than 1 years)
  • Java related Open Source technologies, such as Spring and Hibernate
  • RDBMS (e.g MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle) (more than 1 years)
  • Web Servers
  • Version control systems (GIT)
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
  • Builders
  • Experience of micro-services using SpringBoot or similar
  • Understanding of OOP and design patterns
• Experience with:
  • Agile software processes and technologies
  • Code Review process
  • Refactoring process
• Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable

• Knowledge in:
  • TDD, BDD
  • Architectural, Enterprise Patterns
  • Security patterns, Common attacks types (OWASP)
  • Deployment patterns
• Experience with:
  • Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
  • Microservices
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
  • Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)
  • Cloud solutions (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
  • Serverless architecture
  • Integration with 3rd party solutions
  • NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
  • Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
  • Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
  • Experience of building a high-performance services-based platform

What's in it for you

•  Career growth opportunities
• Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
• Friendly collaborative teams and an enjoyable working environment
• Professional skills development and training programs
• Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with a warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions