Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Developer – City of London, Hertfordshire & West Sussex offices - Hybrid working – Salary between £50k-£65k DOE, plus flexible benefits - Permanent role
Leading IT Consultancy with offices in UK and Europe is looking to recruit a permanent Senior Java Developer with expert core Java 17 coding skills for Our Client, a prestigious international entity in the Entertainment sector.
This is a permanent role with excellent scope to further develop your technical experience and skills. The role will be based full time for 3 months at Our Client’s offices located in either City of London, West Sussex or Hertfordshire with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office thereafter. Occasional travel to Client sites for meetings may be required.
The successful candidate will join an established and experienced Java Consultancy team. Our clients pride themselves in employing high calibre IT consultants and software engineers, and this is a great opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Java Consultants around.
Key skills to have:
Experience of working on large, complex Enterprise systems
Minimum of 5 years experience in Java development including recent Java 17:
Interceptors and Evaluators
Concurrency and Multi-threading
Design Patterns and Functional programming
Annotation Processors and Reflection
Java Security and advanced Exception Handling
An IT related degree or similar qualification
Technical skillset: excellent core Java, IntelliJ IDE, IntelliJ debugging, Javadocs GIT, JIRA, Swing, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Web technologies, XML, Web Services, REST API, JSON, JQuery
Proven strong communicator, who is able to speak about technical matters in non-technical English with business stakeholders
Flexible, can-do attitude, capable of multi-tasking, structured approach, and works well within a team environment.
Nice to have skills:
Preferred additional technical skills: GraphQL, Postgres, Sybase
Experience of the Entertainment business domain
Good front-end development including HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap
Our Offer:
Salary between £50K to £65K depending on experience
Variety of Benefits available including Pension, Life insurance, Medical & Dental cover, Permanent Health Insurance, Critical Illness benefit
Generous Holiday Allowance which increases based on length of service
Variety of work
Opportunity to progress, both in terms of skills, experience and grade levels quickly for the motivated and talented individual
Main responsibilities of the successful candidate:
Java Web and desktop application development, enhancements, and problem resolution for core, large scale business applications using IntelliJ IDE and associated debugging tools
Extensive use of Jira for managing team workload, Javadocs, and Wiki for documentation
Quality assurance including peer reviews, Unit and Integration testing
Release management including source control using Git
Attending and contributing to Agile scrum meetings and regular team operational meetings.
For further information on this excellent Senior Java Developer role, please email your CV to the address shown.