Software Engineer at Flash Group

Flash is a well-established brand that prides itself on making people’s lives easier through frontier technology that creates enabling opportunities.

At Flash we hire for competency, passion, innovative spirit, and fit. - An easy set of criteria if you love what you do.

We are growing and looking to hire a Software Developer. In this role, the individual will be designing, implementing and maintaining the Java tech stack.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification
• Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in software development                                       
• Experience in leading and guiding developers.
• Be passionate about technology, enthusiastic about problem solving, and constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset.
• Have experience of working with enterprise scale application stacks.
• Have had exposure to the full software development lifecycle.
• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns.
• Understanding of ORM frameworks (Hibernate/EclipseLink/.NET Entity Framework).
• Understanding of REST and MVC driven web frameworks.

Skills:

• Strong core Java (Java / J2EE) skills
• Spring Framework
• Wide-ranging experience using Java tech stacks and other programming languages.
• Versed in DevOps methodology including setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience in RESTful web services.
• Solid grasp of Servlet containers and the Servlet API (Apache Tomcat preferable).
• Strong experience with Relational DBMS, MSSQL/Oracle.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to communicate about technology in non-technical terms to colleagues and Clients.

Additional Advantageous Skills:

• Experience using containerization.

Responsibilities:

• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations.
• Provide work estimates based on analyzed business and technical requirements.
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring changes are:
• unit and integration tested
• documented
• optimized to ensure benchmarks are met.
• Assisting in out of hours’ production releases when required.