Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer - £(Apply online only)pd inside IR35 - 12 month contract - Leeds (3 days per week onsite)**

We are looking for several Java Developers to contribute to the most demanding and exciting new digital service for the UK Government. Day-to-day you will be an integral part of a team in designing, creating and improving new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.

Key skills & experience:

Recent experience with Java 17 (or later).
Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD.
Experience with large microservice architectures.
Experience of working in an Agile environment.
Be willing to work in a pair programming environment
Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use.
Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
Be knowledgeable of tools and techniques used within the wider team.
Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours.
Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
Understand of the use of Responsive Web Design.Desirable skills and experience:

Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
Experience of MongoDB or other document databases.
Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites.
Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.

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