Java / Kotlin UK in London

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative Software Engineer to help us achieve our goals of building modern digital platforms and applications.

We want you to help provide technical expertise and acumen to our growing team in pursuit of our customer experience goals.

Our modern platform is built on top of a modern stack consisting of Kotlin/JVM for the back end interacting with other Java/JVM services internally, and a React based front end.

We integrate with numerous internal and external APIs to support core business processes.

Responsibilities

• As a developer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green-field and brown-field projects, learning from, and contributing to your peer group
• Participate in code review and design of systems from members of all levels
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and integrate functionality and features
• Partner with our Product Management team to refine functionality and features

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Fundamental strength in computer science with a demonstrable understanding of computational complexity and data structures
• Understanding of service-based architectures
• Understanding of web applications and use APIs to power them
• Proven experience with live applications and production environments
• Technical Skills
• Able to use AI tooling (Co Pilot, Devin, Etc) to accelerate application and API development
• Able to guide, analyze, correct, explain, and improve AI output
• Software testing acumen (unit test, integration tests)
• Java/Kotlin/JVM (up to 3 years of commercial experience)
• Databases: Postgres, Mongo DB, Redis, preferring Postgres
• Source Code Control: Working experience using Git Hub, Bitbucket, Rhode Code
• Production monitoring and logging tools (i. e. Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Open Search/Elasticsearch, ELF)
• Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP GKE, AWS ECS, AWS EKS
• CI/CD platforms (we are using Git Hub Actions)
• Other: Git, Gitflow, Jira, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum
• Frameworks: Ktor, Spring
• Soft Skills
• Creativity & Problem-Solving
• Adaptability & Flexibility
• Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion and startup mindset
• Practical application and understanding of computer science concepts
• Innovative thinking
• Nice-to-Have
• Full stack experience and willingness to dive into other levels of web applications
• Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis
• Cloud management and deployment – A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Open Stack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform
• Databases – A familiarity of working with different databases such as Postgres, My SQL, No SQL (e. g., Mongo DB), Redis is recommended
• Web technologies – knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as Java Script, HTML, CSS, Type Script, C#, SASS, Stylus, Python, and LESS
• Web frameworks – knowledge and experience working with different frameworks like React Native, Angular JS, Angular2, Vue JS, Socket IO, Backbone, Knockout JS, Svelte, and Bootstrap
• Software testing tools – A good working knowledge in testing code using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma, VCS, and Selenium (base)

We are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action employer, committed to creating an inclusive workplace.

All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veteran status.

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