At a Glance
- Tasks: Enhance customer-facing products and develop sustainable software solutions.
- Company: Public sector organisation with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work flexibility, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a supportive environment with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on digital sustainability.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java, Python, and collaborative software development practices.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
ASA Recruitments client, a public sector organisation with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Java Developer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of up to £490/day outside IR35 (based on experience). This role is mainly remote with occasional visits to either the Edinburgh or Glasgow office.
Responsibilities:
- Continued enhancement of the customer facing product portfolio based on customer feedback.
- Continued development and support of Customer Facing products in line with the product and architecture roadmaps with a view to improving digital sustainability and tackling architectural and technical debt.
- Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.
- Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
- Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique, and experience.
- Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests with appropriate code coverage and code analysis using code quality tools.
- Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc.
- Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.
- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
- Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.
- Support and deliver the disaster recovery assurance of digital services, striving towards a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2hrs and Recovery Point objective of zero. This will be assured at 6 weekend points over the course of a FY year.
Essential Skills:
- Java 11+
- Python 3
- Spring Boot, Python Flask microservices
- Spring security and OAuth2.
- JavaScript UI frameworks, including React.
- Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations.
- OpenShift
- Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker.
- Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres.
- Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
- Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
- Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
- Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures.
- Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
- Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.
- Working in Agile delivery models.
- Defining infrastructure as code.
- Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, and high-quality interfaces.
- Code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools.
Desirable Skills:
- AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK Typescript
Java Developer employer: ASA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED T/A ASA RECRUITMENT
As a Senior HR Business Partner with our esteemed Public Sector organisation in Dundee, you will be part of a dynamic team that values leadership, integrity, and continuous improvement. We offer a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth through professional development opportunities and a commitment to equality and diversity. Enjoy the unique advantage of working in a hybrid environment, allowing for flexibility while contributing to meaningful projects that impact the community.
Contact Details:
ASA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED T/A ASA RECRUITMENT Recruitment Team
