Senior Java Developer

Job Description:

Job Title:
Senior Java Developer

Corporate

Title:

Up to Vice President

Location:
Bromley

Company Overview
:

At the company, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At the company, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role

Description:

This is a great opportunity to join a Scrum team in Bromley consisting of 8 team members, working on the award-winning Global Liquidity Platform (GLP) application. The team is one of several teams working on the application, the others being in Bromley (London) and in India.

The team is friendly and very collaborative, and this is achieved using a variety of collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams.

As the team operate in an agile manner there is also regular interaction with other technical teams, product management and end users.

Training and development are a core part of the team ethos and is available through a variety of different means – we have a great online learning portal as well as providing more formal external training for niche requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Be a strong technologist who is inquisitive and has a desire to learn.

What we’re looking for:

• Good Java development experience.
• Good knowledge of:
• Core Java, JEE.
• Spring Framework – particularly SpringMVC, Spring Boot, Spring Batch.
• REST.
• Unix scripting (BASH).
• Junit.
• Mocking (JMock/Mokito).
• Hibernate.
• Experience of Oracle DB – PLSQL scripting.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools – ex. Jenkins, XLR, Ansible.
• Experience with Agile / SCRUM Programming project methodologies.
• Experience using software configuration management systems (Git/Bit Bucket).
• Experience working with colleagues in other (global) locations.
• Ability to seek out information with little direction.

Skills that will help:

• JMS
• Websphere MQ
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (JBehave, Cucumber).
• AngularJS.
• Splunk
• Experience with secure coding practises (SAST/DAST).
• Domain Driven Design.
• Experience in the Banking domain, particularly Treasury and Payments.

Benefits of working at the company:
UK

• At the company, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of…