Senior Java Developer

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9 months ago
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Senior Data Engineer - Azure & Snowflake

Avanti Recruitment is working with a growing technology company based near Crawley that specialises in providing real-time customer experience insights through call/teams reports to enhance their clients revenue growth, within the cloud communications market.

They are on the lookout for a Senior Java Developer to join their team on a hybrid basis (1 day in office per week). This role will be an individual contributor position where you will be contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of the back-end infrastructure.

You will work closely in an engineering team of 16, working with front-end developers, DevOps, and product teams to deliver secure scalable, and efficient solutions. You will have the opportunity to lead technical initiatives, mentor junior developers, and shape the architecture and development standards of the backend system.

They are working with over 600 of the world's leading telecoms and IT providers and have deployed their solutions to over 10,000 customer sites, across multiple sectors, worldwide.

Required Skills:

  • Strong Java experience

  • Springboot Microservices

  • REST APIs

  • Docker / Kubernetes

  • Multi-threading

  • Worked in a fast paced SME

  • Architecture / Design experience

    Desirable Skills:

  • AWS / Azure / GCP

  • Serverless architecture

  • DevOps practices

  • Kafka / RabbitMQ or similar

  • Data Modelling / API Visioning

    Benefits:

  • Salary up to £75,000

  • Bonus up to 10%

  • 11% Pension (6 % employer, 5% employee)

  • Vitality Healthcare

  • Death in service

  • Working hours 9:00am-17:30pm

  • Electric car scheme

  • Eye care vouchers

  • Flu voucher

    If you are interested in this position then click Apply Now

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