Our client is looking for a Lead Java Developer in Burgess Hill, UK. This is a contract role inside IR35. Hybrid role.

Primary Skill: Java 8, spring boot

The Role

As a Software Engineer you'll help to build world class software through consistent development practices tools common components and documentation.

You'll contribute to the design development troubleshooting debugging evaluation modification deployment and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer facing applications business applications and or internal end user applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frame works.
• Participating in code test other quality reviews.
• Debugging basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Enabling the deployment support and monitoring of software across test integration and production environments.
• Automating deployments in test and production environments.
• Scaling applications based on demand projections.

Minimum Qualifications/Education Experience:

• Up to 4years of software development experience in a professional environment and or comparable experience with the following
• Must have good working knowledge in Java8 and above experience with Java11 and Java17 is a plus
• Must have good working knowledge with Spring Boot for service development
• Must have good working knowledge with Kafka and its integrations
• Must have good working knowledge in both SQL and NoSQL databases like Oracle PostgreSQL Couchbase Cassandra etc
• 5 years of experience in the above-mentioned technologies
• Good to have knowledge in reactive programming like VertX or any other
• Good to have working knowledge with testing frameworks like Cucumber for BDDs JMeter for performance testing.
• Must have a basic knowledge and understanding of tools like Jenkins Deployments Splunk Kibana Grafana GitHub
• Must have knowledge on the microservice based application development
• Good to have knowledge in developing and managing applications with higher transactions per second and high availability.
• Having knowledge in caching mechanisms is a plus
• Good to having experience of working in Agile projects
• Technical certifications in the above skillset will be an added advantage.
• Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components familiarity with Cloud computing
• Experience with Event driven Microservices architecture for high availability distributed systems.
• Experience using Spring Framework Junit GitHub Microservices Splunk and API's
• Experience with Test driven development and unit testing frame works.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT and code build tools like IntelliJ Redhat JBoss etc including DevOps concepts an CI/CD tools
• University Degree in computer science computer engineering or equivalent experience