Senior Java Developer for a Manufacturing Company

Java, Design patterns, Docker, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservice Architecture Pattern, CI/CD, Git

Currently, we are looking for a remote Senior Java Developer to become a part of the team.

The customer deals with the manufacturing and distribution of electronic products.

Responsibilities

Defining, building and documenting clear and re-usable service blueprints
Defining, building and maintaining robust CD pipelines within Gitlab to build (compile), test (unit, integration, pen, load, e2e) and deploy any services built on the platform to the target infrastructure of choice to be decided
Defining, curating and working closely with Engineering Practice / Architecture colleagues to bake into service blueprints
Championing our API First Strategy by configuring and setting up our chosen API Repository and documenting its role as part of our developer workflow
Working with UX colleagues to configure (using Jekyl or Gastby like static site generators) to define and build out our Developer Portal (Kong Konnect)
Configure and define the use of Auth0 (our chosen IdP and our API token provider) for application registration and token generation
Work closely with our Cloud Competency Centre to kick the tyres and help ensure the delivery of Platform 2.0 (our Hashicorp Nomad container platform) and Kong Enterprise API Gateway
Documentation, Process and Training Support when in rollout to the wider API Teams
Any other duties or considerations not covered here that may arise during the build out phase of the GSP yet to be identified

Requirements

3+ years of experience with Java
Experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot in the context of designing and building RESTful based microservices
Experience building APIs (REST, GraphQL etc)
Experience of Messaging Protocols (AMQP)
Knowledge of Design Patterns
Experience with cloud infrastructure services (in AWS, Azure or similar), including serverless technologies
Experience with containerisation and related technologies, including Docker, Nomad / Kubernetes (orchestration)
Knowledge/Experience working on databases with large datasets, monitoring and tuning performance
Experience with version control systems such as Git (Gitlab prefererable)
Familiarity with CI/CD, pipelines and automation (GitLab CI, Circle CI, Jenkins etc.)
Familiarity with Quality assurance, testing and system monitoring tools
Experience of writing ‘Infrastructure as code’ (ideally in Terraform)

Nice to have

Benefits