Senior Java Developer

What you will be getting up to:

• Working across a number of business areas providing development, maintenance and support.
• Working as part of squads and occasionally solo developments as the business needs arise.
• Discuss/Meet business stakeholders to understand the problems they wish to address.
• Liaise with architects, analysts, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions including implementation deployment, support and troubleshooting overviews.
• Scope and conduct needed Proof of Concepts when necessary.
• Help identify probable causes and provide immediate solution during an incident.
• Provide assistance to other developers/projects as needed.
• Attend daily meetings to report on assigned tasks’ progress and attend fortnightly meetings for project planning and other meetings from time to time.
• Complete tasks & deliver projects on-time and to the highest standards.
• Contribute significant ideas for making the applications better and easier to us.

• At least 5+ years of working experience in serving as a Java Developer working on varied type of software development projects.
• Strong grasp of established and emerging technologies, systems, platforms, and software.
• Expert knowledge of Java and open source software (e.g. Spring)
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, preferably with Oracle databases
• Experience designing and building RESTful web service APIs
• Distributed caching (Hazelcast or Redis).
• Knowledge of Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ or JMS).
• Experience developing back office trading tools using GWT/Vaadin, SWT, Swing or JavaFX.
• Background in Agile Software Development using Scrum Methodology is preferred but not required.
• Passion for writing high quality, rock solid software.
• Previously worked on large scale multi-threaded projects.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Maven and Linux.
• Experience building highly transactional, high volume distributed server applications.
• Knowledge of JVM monitoring and performance tuning Java applications, as well as troubleshooting issues in production,
• Background in Online Gaming is preferred but not required.
• Extra points if you have developed web apps in HTML/JavaScript.

Additional:

• Ability to write and interpret technical documentation.
• Good oral and written English communication skills.
• Creative, analytical, and with strong problem solving skills.
• Ability to organise and manage multiple priorities.
• Independent but collaborative, driven, assertive, and willing to work on simultaneous projects.
• Ability to work in a team and works well under pressure and deadlines

**Applications in English only please