Java Software Engineer

Rate: £550 (Inside of IR35)

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote

Must have Live SC Clearance

A global consultancy is looking to hire multiple Scrum Masters on a contract basis, the successful candidates must have GDS (Government Digital Services) experience and a background in either Software Test or Software Development, this must be evidenced in your CV.

Job Description:

Strong Software Engineer with extensive experience working with Java (Spring Boot) on large microservice architectures. The engineer should be confident using test-driven development techniques and possess skills in containerisation (Docker), relational databases such as Postgres (ideally with migration tooling such as Liquibase), and experience with modern DevOps ways of working like continuous integration and deployment.

Knowledge of Kafka would be advantageous along with some Front End experience using React/Typescript.

Essential skills/experience:

· Java (Spring boot)

· Postgres (or other relational SQL database)

· Docker

· Test-driven development (Junit & Mockito or other similar testing libraries)

· CI/CD (Jenkins or similar pipeline tooling)

· Comfortable working in agile teams and collaborating with colleagues from other disciplines.

Desirable:

· API Spec (Swagger OpenAPI)

· Gradle

· Liquibase

· Kafka

· React