Lead II - Software Engineering (Java Developer)

Experience: 6+ years Production-grade experience of developing and managing APIs using Java & Springboot. Excellent understanding of SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST.

- Good knowledge of Maven or Gradle.

- Production experience running microservices on container orchestration architectures.

- Passionate about API testing utilising tools similar to Wiremock, Pact, Postman and Cucumber.

- Good understanding of API authentication and authorisation mechanisms like OAuth.

- Knowledge using monitoring & logging tools like NewRelic or Logzio to troubleshoot problems in a distributed network of systems.

- Excellent understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline management via Jenkins.

- Development experience within AWS.

- Strong experience in front-end architectural and design patterns.

- Able to effectively communicate and partner across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

- Extensive knowledge to successfully identify, troubleshoot and pre-empt operational issues.

- Proactive approach to problem determination, identifying areas for improvement and system bottlenecks.

- Strong communication skills with proven ability to challenge and motivate technical teams. Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overheads through observability and service automation.

- Drive engineering best practice (e.g, Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, Resilience etc.) and set standards, across the team and wider SRE teams.

- Innovate within team and contribute within your technical domain.

- Delivering key pieces of intent from inception through to design and hands-on delivery, in collaboration with the SREM. Estimate, scope and plan your work within an agile environment.

Experience in the financial domain or understanding of investment banking workflows.

AWS, CI/CD, Java, API Testing, Microservices, Jenkins, Spring Boot, REST, OAuth 2.0