- Pay Rate:
Up to £700 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 12 months
- Manchester
Interim Java Developer -Hybrid Working - PSR 1JP00056503 *Re-opened*
Pay Rate: Up to £700 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Manchester – min 2 days a week in office. Role cannot be fully remote.
You will be an outstanding Java Developer, who can make a positive impact, and wants to contribute to the most demanding and exciting new digital service.
You will have outstanding skills and be ready to quickly get to work within an Agile, multidisciplinary team of Developers, Designers, and Analysts focused on a flagship welfare reform programme.
You will be expected to draw value from collaboration with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
Day-to-day you will be an integral part of that team in designing, creating and improving new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.
Key Accountabilities:
- Transform business requirements in to production ready code
- Ensure system robustness, resilience and stability
- Design and develop reusable libraries and services and promote reuse across the department
- Contribute to community discussions about best practice within Software Engineering
- Produce comprehensive suites of automated unit and integration tests to ensure code quality
- Assure there is a fit for purpose, robust automated test suite
- Provide coaching and mentoring to Software Engineers colleagues and peers
- Assist in the development of medium-long term strategies for products
- Define version control strategies for the source code of the product
- Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery or continuation of software engineering activities
Key Requirements:
- Recent experience with Java 11 (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.
- Security Clearance: BPSS but should be eligible to obtain SC
Desirable Requirements:
- 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.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, not that they would exclude candidates willing to travel/relocate, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document
- Security Clearance: BPSS but should be eligible to obtain SC
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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