Lead Java Developer

Lead Java Developer

Paying up to GBP60,000 per annum plus benefits including pension scheme, critical illness cover, 4 x life assurance, perkbox, company bonus, 25 days holiday increasing with service and ability to purchase additional leave

This role will be home based until February at the earliest with views of then returning to the office in Milton Keynes but with continued flexible working.

This is an opportunity to join on the UK's leading software companies in the Insurance market. As part of a companywide technology initiative, they are looking to hire new Lead Developers, one focused on full stack and one on backend.

These roles will lead developments within Scrum teams to deliver new products, customer developments and support the company's current technical estate.

Key responsibilities

• Leading cross-functional scrum teams responsible for hands-on delivery of software.
• Providing technical leadership and advocating & implementing improvements in working practices.
• Being continually aware of emerging technological trends and proposing and implementing new solutions and industry standard techniques.
• Acting in the role of coach and mentor providing support and advice to other members of the Software Development department.
• Enhancing the scalability and performance of the company's systems.
• Delivering new customer requirements as quickly, reliably, and efficiently as possible.
• Liaising with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, and QA's to establish and implement requirements and/or resolve live operational issues.

Experience & Skills

Essential:

• Extensive experience of working on large complex software applications and databases with high volumes of data and large numbers of concurrent users.
• Experience of major redesign and refactoring of complex enterprise solutions.
• Experience of leading software development projects in Java.
• Use and implementation of Design Patterns.
• Demonstrable technical leadership experience.
• Experience of tackling performance and scalability issues on a large, high-throughput system, using industry-standard techniques and tools.
• Extensive knowledge of Java and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
• Extensive knowledge of MySQL.
• Extensive knowledge of REST, SOAP, and SOA.
• Problem solving and deep analysis skills including ability to diagnose performance issues.
• The ability to convert business and/or technical level requirements into successful implementation.

Advantageous:

• Experience of working in an agile environment.
• General insurance / financial services industry knowledge.
• TDD, XP, ContinuousIntegration.
• Gradle and Groovy.
• Agile delivery skills - for example Scrum / Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework, TDD and Pair Programming.
• Atlassian software such as Bamboo andJIRA.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent industry experience).
• A degree in a computer related subject (advantageous).
• Oracle Java Professional Certification (advantageous).
• Oracle MySQL Developer Certification (advantageous).

If you are an experienced lead java developer with the listed skills and experience then please apply now...... click apply for full job details