Senior Java Developer (Spring)

12 month contract

Minimum requirements:

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 10+ years Java application programming/development experience
• 5+ years Spring Framework, JEE-Experience
• 3+ CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes Experience

Skills and competencies:

• Strong technical/ software engineering background (hands-on)
• Strong application/software development or programming background in Java
• Good experience in system, application architecture, design, development, implementation and deployment (end-to-end), development automation.
• Ability to work on different tiers of the application
• Object oriented Design
• Solid experience on Sprint Boot, Spring Framework (Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Webservices, Spring Integration, Spring Rest, Spring Cloud), Hibernate, Open Source Frameworks
• Solid experience with SOA-Architectures, Microservices Architectures and related integration protocols (e.g. Web Services (SOAP/XML), REST & JSON, and MQ), as well as the related security requirements/models.
• Experience with application database management practices in a high volume Java environment (SQL, DB2, and NoSql Cassandra/MongoDB).
• Experience with deploying and running Java applications in orchestrated container environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid CI, CD, DevOps and related tooling experience, build/test/deploy through automation
• Performance and troubleshooting of Java Applications
• Good experience with integrated system environments
• Practical experience in a high volume banking environment. (E.g. application clustering, scaling, multi-threading, session management, etc.)
• Proven ability as a problem-solver
• Self-driven, self-starter, technology leader, and able to work independently.
• Must have working experience on the following tools/IDEs: 
• Eclipse
• InteliJ
• Spring Tool Suite
• Git
• Maven
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• Nexus
• Debugging & troubleshooting.
• Write well documented and maintainable code.
• Passion for software excellence and be quality driven.
• You must be prepared to bring new ideas to the workplace, but also to accept how things have been done and the reasons for doing things this way.

Responsibilities:

• Looking for an exceptional individual to build Java integration services and applications using the company's Framework with an enthusiasm for solving interesting technical challenges in a Banking environment. 
• Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment. 
• The ideal candidate will not just be an outstanding Java developer, but will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation and balanced bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery. 
• The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, trouble shooting and performance optimizations. 
• The candidate will work in an Agile (SCRUM) environment and will be allocated and co-located to a small agile development team (squad) Tribe and Chapter Model. 
• The candidate will collaborate with team members to understand the problem & define, design, and ship new features through the development lifecycle. 
• This includes brainstorm, contribution to new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems. 
• Must be able to work independently, effectively and efficiently in a collaborative agile environment with scrum masters, solution engineers, designers, and developers.