Senior Software Engineer - Java

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This company is at the start of a new era. As one of the UK’s largest businesses, they are powered by an epic, diverse and high-performing team that provide customers with a range of services they love to use and rely on every day. Make their customers your priority and they’ll make you theirs. With incredible job opportunities, unbelievable perks and an inclusive can-do culture, are you ready to be part of the change?

The world has changed - particularly when it comes to ways of working. Most of their roles can be on a work from home basis if needed, but they'll ferry you in a few times a year from wherever you are in the UK for team or company days, or their famous summer and Christmas celebrations.

The role and the team :

Software engineering is at the heart of what they do there - their agile engineering teams build and support a set of applications and services that combined create their unique user experience on the website, enable their internal teams to work in the most productive and efficient ways and enable a whole range of awesome features via modern APIs.

The quality and maintainability of their software is very important for them, they are looking for engineers with real world experience, especially in terms of the whole development lifecycle. You will help them design and implement tightly focused APIs, services and user interfaces and, together with your team, you will support them in production. They want you to share your opinions on how they are doing things - and help them get better!

Key responsibilities:

• Work with a full-stack attitude within a self-organising, cross functional product engineering team using extreme programming practices - notably pair programming and test-driven development
• Build, support and maintain automated, fault-tolerant, scalable products and solutions that are continuously delivered into their production environment
• Leverage your experience and skills to assist your team in establishing the best architecture for your products and services
• Be technically curious, tackling problems without giving up, and producing solutions that less-experienced engineers can use, maintain, and learn from
• Know how to develop and follow a sense of purpose. Be willing to point out, own, and fix things that are broken about their company and in your own career track

Accountable for:

You’ll have to make tough decisions, implement best practice and provide compromises when situations are not ideal. Oh and you’ll need to explain that to people. Not just the technical ones. Because they work in product teams where not everyone is a techie. It’s fun, you get closer to the business and know more about why they do what they do, not just how.

Their core technologies are Java, PHP & Python & React, and they like their engineers to be XP developers with a full-stack attitude. They're looking for passionate programmers who are comfortable with using a variety of frameworks, languages & tools and are happy to pick up new skills when the need arises.

Skills, experience and attitudes:

• Essential Skills: Reading & Writing Code, Debugging & Troubleshooting, IDE & OS Basics, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Clean Code & Refactoring, Version Control, CI / CD, Algorithms & Data Structures,DI / IoC, Mocks & Stubs, Alerting & Monitoring, Functional & Non-Functional Testing
• Desirable Skills: ecommerce stack, SOLID Principles, Containerisation & Networking Basics, Twelve Factor App Design, Solution Architecture

Plus competency in 5 or more of the following:

• Client-Side Engineering: CSS3, Cypress, ECMAScript (ES6+), HTML5, Jest, React & React Native, SASS, TypeScript
• Server-Side Engineering: Java 8 with Maven & Spring, JUnit, NodeJS, PHP with Laravel or Zend, Python
• Additional Technology: Apache & NGINX, AWS, Jenkins, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis & Oracle, Docker & Kubernetes, ElasticSearch & Kibana, Grafana & Prometheus, Kinesis

Their commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion:

They want to challenge the old way of doing things. People, and the way they work, define their culture and they encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to the gaff. That's why they believe in creating an equitable, fairer, more inclusive business that champions different ideas and perspectives. They may be sort-of-small but they're big on that caring, sharing thing & strive to create a supportive culture.

As a lean organisation, their team is built of a diverse, spirited range of people who are multi-skilled, highly motivated and flexible.