Senior Java Backend Engineer
Salary: £65,000 to £70,000
Location: Hampshire, Hybrid 2 days p/w
What You'll Do:
Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
How You'll Do It:
1. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production.
2. Understand the software development lifecycle and leverage critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
3. Guide early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work-related tasks, directing the work of emerging talent, and helping them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
4. Oversee application, system, and architecture design decisions and guide the team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
5. Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
6. Achieve team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists.
7. Contribute to and lead technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture, and/or data.
8. Create and enforce IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.
Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics:
1. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology.
2. Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering or related.
3. Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.
Physical and Cognitive Requirements:
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:
1. Primarily remain in a stationary position.
2. No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
3. Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
4. Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
5. Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.
Bonus Points If You Have:
1. JavaSE 8 or above development experience.
2. Microservices development experience.
3. Digital payments experience.
4. Experience with several testing frameworks such as Junit/Mockito/Gatling.
5. SQL/NoSQL experience.
6. RESTful APIs experience.
7. Kafka experience.
8. OpenShift/Kubernetes experience.
9. Helm Charts experience.
10. AWS experience.
11. Jenkins experience.
12. Git experience.
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