Senior Java Engineer (Back End) at Black Swan Data

The Role

Day to day, you will be part of an agile full stack feature team including Backend, Frontend, QA, Design, and Product management. We expect a TDD approach to development, producing high quality outputs. You will ensure development automation is implemented in Black Swan using CI tools such as Jenkins or GitLab and ensure best practices are followed and kept.

• Work with development and product teams to create innovative software solutions
• Design server-side architecture
• Build the back-end of applications utilising well known design patterns
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Test software to ensure it is scalable and extensible
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
   

About You

• Good understanding of technology stacks including mobile, hybrid, back, middleware and front-end development
• Strong Core Java
• Spring Boot, Spring Data and wider Spring experience
• Familiarity with multiple database engines including SQL & No SQL
• Microservice experience
• Understanding of message driven architecture
• REST API development with a good understanding of accompanying standards
• Experience mentoring software developers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to customers, executives and non-technical leaders
• Understanding of product development and quality assurance processes
• Experience and understanding of technical considerations for cross product projects
• Knowledge and experience of industry standard tools including budgeting, scheduling, team and task management
• Be entrepreneurial, with a collaborative, supportive and team-based approach.
• Strong knowledge of Java and/or other back-end languages (e.g. C#, Python) would be an added plus
• Creating and managing of GraphQL API’s
• Working experience with message brokers, for example but not limited to SQS, RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ
• Possesses good business acumen and sound judgment
• Experience of managing a technical product build and campaign-based project