Java Back End Engineer - Glasgow

A core Java Back End engineer is required for our client a Global banking project for a Tier 1 bank. You will work with Java 11 as a minimum and no Legacy Java below Java 11 is left. You must be able to pair program and explain you development from design to completion.

You will be required to do 3 days a week in Glasgow.

Working in an agile environment, we are looking for multiple developers that can design, develop high quality code, taking the workstream from requirements stage through to support, ensuring best practice throughout. The role is part of a larger project team and you'll be working with Twelve-Factor App methodology, so experience here or with GOF (Gang of Four) would be advantageous.

Core skills for these roles are:

• JVM language - Java 11+/Scala/Kotlin
• Data structures and algorithms, understanding of their time and space complexities.
• Distributed systems/microservices architecture
• RESTful APIs
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Relational databases
• Unit testing using Mockito
• UI technologies: Reactjs/JavaScript/CSS

If you also have experience with cloud technologies, security frameworks, data streaming/messaging frameworks and/or distributed tracing/monitoring, this will put you in a good position. Tech stack includes AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Spark, Zipkin, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, automating deployment, releases, testing in CI, continuous delivery pipelines.