Job type
ContractLocation
GlasgowWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Software DevelopmentIndustry
Technology & Internet ServicesPay
Up to £550 per day
Java Developer - 6 months, Up to £550pd, inside IR35, Glasgow
Your new company and role
This role is with a financial services client based in Glasgow. In this role you will serve as a member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems.
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Gathers, analyses, synthesises, and develops visualisations and reports from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
What you'll need to succeed
The following skills and experience are essential for this role:
- Formal training or certification on system design concepts and applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- UI Technology - React or Angular, TypeScript, CSS, Micro Frontend Development, and JavaScript
- Backend Technology - Java / Spring, Kafka, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
The following skills and experience are desirable for this role:
- Exposure to cloud technologies
- Experience in architecture and design of microservices
- Learn new skills and keep up with industry innovations to deliver solutions to automate manual work
- Unit Testing, Mocking, Performance Testing e.g. Junit, Mokito, Blazemeter
- Monitoring Tools e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, etc.
What you need to do now
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