We aren’t looking for a ‘Rock Star’ or a ‘Ninja’. We aren’t looking for a ‘Super Star Developer’ either. We want a team player; someone who is tenacious about getting things done as part of a team in an environment that expects creativity and quality delivery. Be a rebel but be part of our rebel alliance.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Strong knowledge of Java with 3+ years of experience

• Experience of developing enterprise-grade, high performing scalable applications

• Strong knowledge of the Spring Boot framework (including spring data, spring security) and JEE containers

• Comfortable using AWS and Linux to support application development and deployment

• Thorough understanding of application security and secure coding practices

• Proficient in application design and architecture

• Knowledge of a variety of persistence technologies, to include SQL and NoSQL

• Experience of designing Restful APIs

• Tenacious technical problem solver

• Good communicator

• Experience of working in Agile teams

• Demonstrable experience of working with version control, build tools, code-quality and testing tools

Desirable

• Experience of, or strong desire to learn, modern responsive front-end development (CSS3 with SPA frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue)

• Strong working knowledge of application integration points: e.g. SSO, SAML, LDAP, SSL/TLS

• Demonstrable passion for working with Open standards / Open Source

• Knowledge of XMPP

Responsibilities

• Continually critique and improve how the team delivers

• Architect secure software systems

• Design and develop reliable and secure software components

• Debug, solve and communicate technical problems

• Consider the user at every point in development

• Always be learning