Senior Java Developer

• £600-£700/day inside IR35
• Urgent contract Senior Java Developer role 
• Start date - ASAP 
• 12 months initial contract 
• Hybrid - Leeds Office 

Skills/ experience:

• Recent experience with Java 21 (or later).
• Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD.
• Experience with large microservice architectures.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Be willing to work in a pair programming environment.
• Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use.
• Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
• Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
• Be knowledgeable of tools and techniques used within the wider team.
• Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours.
• Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
• Understand of the use of Responsive Web Design.

Desirable skills: 

• Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
• Experience of MongoDB or other document databases.
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites.
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.