Backend Developer

£35,000 - £45,000

2 days a week in the office

London

Our client is a leading publishing company and due to continued growth & development they have asked us to invite applications for the position of Backend Developer.

From a technical perspective, you will be working as part of a multi-disciplined product team including Product Managers, Delivery Manager, UX/Designer, Technical Architect, Test Automation Engineer and other Developers, where you will be required to:

• Produce code in an iterative way, following Agile, DevOps and continuous delivery principles and best practises
• Follow and promote a shift left development and testing approach where developers code their own unit and integration tests using different frameworks and tools.

Key outcomes

Develop and maintain clean, high-performance code, covered with various unit and API tests and in line with the continuous delivery ways of working adopted by the company

Requirements

Essential

• Demonstrable experience programming in Java and using Spring, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat and search engines such as Apache Solr or ElasticSearch
• Experience in designing and writing RESTful APIs following industry best practice.
• Advanced knowledge and experience on Git, Git branching strategies and its application to continuous delivery
• Experience using AWS to deploy and run applications
• Flexible and able to adjust to changing priorities in an Agile, iterative and fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fast learner, pro-active, resourceful and a strong team player

Nice to have

• Experience on building serverless applications
• Experience on using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
• Experience using Docker containers
• Experience coding in other programming languages including Python and Node.js
• Knowledge on single page applications (SPA) using React, HTML and CSS.