Java Engineer

Glasgow
1 week ago
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This role is with a financial services client based in Glasgow. In this role you will serve as a member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems.
Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
Gathers, analyses, synthesises, and develops visualisations and reports from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
What you'll need to succeed

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

Formal training or certification on system design concepts and applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
UI Technology - React or Angular, TypeScript, CSS, Micro Frontend Development, and JavaScript
Backend Technology - Java / Spring, Kafka, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
The following skills and experience are desirable for this role:

Exposure to cloud technologies
Experience in architecture and design of microservices
Learn new skills and keep up with industry innovations to deliver solutions to automate manual work
Unit Testing, Mocking, Performance Testing e.g. Junit, Mokito, Blazemeter
Monitoring Tools e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, etc.

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