At a Glance
- Tasks: Collaborate to develop clean features and resolve issues using Java and Spring Boot.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on security and quality in software development.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, performance bonuses, generous holiday, and private medical insurance.
- Other info: Dynamic team culture with opportunities for continuous learning and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing customer experience with innovative software solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience in Java, microservices, and a solid understanding of clean code principles.
Collaborating with the team to develop clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues, utilising various approaches to ensure we deliver outstanding outcomes to our customers efficiently and effectively.
Contributing to the management of technical debt, ensuring Legal & General's systems remain secure, resilient, and reliable.
Enhancing and refining testing methodologies within the team to ensure the highest quality customer experience, with a strong focus on security, usability, and accessibility.
Participating in code reviews, emphasising both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security, to consistently produce high-quality, safe software for our customers.
Engaging in continuous improvement efforts related to security, quality, deployment, monitoring, and operations, enabling the seamless release and operation of safe, performant, and resilient systems in production.
Actively participating in developer team meetings to keep colleagues informed and foster a culture of knowledge sharing. Communicating effectively and collaborating continuously with team members to ensure smooth delivery of development activities within the sprint timebox.
Pursuing ongoing skill development through relevant training in your role discipline.
- Proven hands-on experience in building microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Solid understanding of clean code principles and architecture concepts such as SOLID and Onion.
- Demonstrated expertise in crafting large-scale, well-optimised, and maintainable software features, ensuring robust and efficient solutions.
- Good grasp of at least one layered backend application architecture, including three-tier, hexagonal, or onion.
- Proficiency in test-driven development and familiarity with the testing pyramid.
- Comprehensive understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and other release strategies.
- Proven ability to analyse, debug, and resolve highly complex issues, showcasing your critical thinking and technical prowess.
- Excellent communication skills, with strong proficiency in both spoken and written English.
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
- Generous pension contribution.
- Life assurance.
- Private medical insurance (permanent employees only).
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday.
- Competitive family leave.
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice.
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart.
