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Senior Java Developer

Skills/ experience:

● Recent experience with Java 21 (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.

It would also be desirable to have:

• 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