Location
Paddington, London (Onsite 3 days per week)

Hours
Full Time - Contract (6 months, outside IR35)

Salary
Competitive salary offered

About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for experienced Java developers to join our team! You will have a passion for software development and an excellent understanding of how to define and deliver solutions iteratively and collaboratively. You will be involved in all areas of delivery, with the technical gravitas to mentor and inspire the development team; playing an integral part in helping them continuously improve by sharing your own knowledge, experience and insights. You will be confident in challenging business requirements to ensure you are continuously delivering the best possible outcome, harnessing innovation and driving the adoption of new technologies to deliver business value. Your vision and ambition will contribute to shaping our online technology roadmap, influencing our future technical direction and balancing passion with precision to deliver exceptional online service and solutions for our customers.

Experience
- Expert understanding of Java, knowledge of other JVM languages such as Kotlin is a plus
- Experience with modern build tools including Gradle and Maven
- Comfortable designing and implementing event driven/asynchronous systems using technologies such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Proficient with modern web frameworks such as Spring or JavaEE
- Skilled in using GIT and other version control software
- Mastery of testing and ensuring quality, performant code using techniques including TDD and BDD and technologies such as Mockito, JUnit, Gatling and Cucumber
- Experience deploying and running cloud-based technologies using providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible, Terraform or CloudFormation
- Containerization experience using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Knowledge and experience of common agile frameworks and practices, including Scrum and Kanban
- Ability to work in a DevOps style and mentor a team towards it using CI/CD, automated testing, observability, monitoring and tracing
- Comfortable working with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. DynamoDb, MongoDb)
- Proficient working with JSON and XML technologies

About you
You are a confident and collaborative developer with strong technical leadership skills. You challenge business requirements constructively to ensure the best outcomes and are passionate about innovation and continuous improvement. You enjoy mentoring others and shaping technical direction while delivering high-quality solutions.

Qualifications
Relevant professional experience in Java development and related technologies is essential. Formal qualifications are beneficial but not mandatory if you demonstrate the required expertise and skills.