Job description
This is a hands-on role for a senior back-end engineer whowants to be part of flat-structure organization. The responsibilities are to deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices. You are expected to be involved in the design and architecture of the solutions while also focusing on the entire SDLC lifecycle stages.
2 x Back End Engineers (Java). We will be keen on skills like metrics (using micrometer), kafka, microservices with spring, java.
Your technical skills should include:
- Qualifications in computer science or STEM related field (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) or foreign equivalent
- Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment
- Recent experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+)
- Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies
- Understanding of relational databases
- Desired – understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Desired – understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / Spring Boot, etc.)
- Desired – understanding of security frameworks / standards
- Desired – understanding of data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.)
- Desired – understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, OpenTracing, Prometheus, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, etc.)
- Desired – understanding of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
- Experience in all the stages of software development lifecycle (requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and support)
- Desired – experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines
- A solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as automating component, integration and end-to-end tests
Your soft skills should include:
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team
- Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs
- Ability to work within a diverse and inclusive team
- Technically curious, versatile and solution oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Job Type: Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months
Pay: £500.00-£550.00 per day
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- .NET: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person