Java Backend Engineer in Burgess Hill

As a Software Engineer, you'll help to build world-class software through consistent development practices, tools, common components, and documentation. You'll contribute to the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications.

• Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frameworks.
• Participating in code, test, and other quality reviews.
• Debugging basic software components and identifying code defects for remediation.
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automating deployments in test and production environments.
• Scaling applications based on demand projections.

• Up to 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
• Must have good working knowledge in Java 8 and above; experience with Java 11 and Java 17 is a plus.
• Must have good working knowledge with Spring Boot for service development.
• Must have good working knowledge with Kafka and its integrations.
• Must have good working knowledge in both SQL and NoSQL databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Cassandra, etc.
• Must have a basic knowledge and understanding of tools like Jenkins, Deployments, Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, GitHub.
• Must have knowledge on microservice-based application development.
• 5 years of experience in the abovementioned technologies.
• Good to have a minimum of 1 year experience with Golang language.
• Good to have knowledge in reactive programming like VertX or any other.
• Good to have working knowledge with testing frameworks like Cucumber for BDDs, JMeter for performance testing.
• Good to have knowledge in developing and managing applications with higher transactions per second and high availability.
• Having knowledge in caching mechanisms is a plus.
• Good to have experience of working in Agile projects.
• Technical certifications in the above skillset will be an added advantage.
• Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components, familiarity with Cloud computing.
• Experience with Event-driven Microservices architecture for high availability distributed systems.
• Experience using Spring Framework, Junit, GitHub, Microservices, Splunk, and APIs.
• Experience with Test-driven development and unit testing frameworks.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT and code build tools like IntelliJ, Redhat, JBoss, etc., including DevOps concepts and CI/CD tools.
• University Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.