Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems

• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development

• Conducts detailed peer reviews of code developed by colleagues

• Provides out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficient in coding in one or more object-orientated languages, including Java 17+ with Spring Boot in a multi-threaded application.

• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies including Kafka which scale to accommodate large spikes in demand

• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in modern relational databases (e.g. CockroachDB)

• Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of creating low latency, thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language

• Experience of designing resilient data streaming integrations between applications including strategies to ensure data completeness and integrity

• Detailed understanding of API Security concepts including OIDC, certificate management and signing (e.g. JWS)

• Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro and Parquet)

• Experience with gRPC or RSocket

• Hands on experience with C++, Rust or Golang

• Experience of using distributed caches and data grids (e.g. Gemfire, Hazelcast, Redis, Valkey)

• Experience of NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)

• Certified Kubernetes knowledge and practical experience (e.g. CKAD)

• Certified public cloud technology knowledge and practical experience (e.g. Terraform, AWS certification)