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Senior Java Engineer

Senior Java Engineer

  • Location

    Cardiff

  • Sector:

    Technology & Digital

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £60000 - £75000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Chloe Thomas

  • Email:

    cthomas@yolkrecruitment.com

  • Contact phone:

    02920 220078

  • Job ref:

    BH-27712

  • Published:

    about 2 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2022-04-27

  • Start date:

    2022-03-27

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

Senior Java Engineer

UK – Cardiff – Hybrid Working – Salaries up to £75,000

Yolk Recruitment is working with one of the Global Top 20 largest financial consulting company to hire a Senior Java Developer to join their team in Cardiff.

This company is one of the world’s largest Asset Managers, they offer an inspirational workplace which has structure and opportunities to develop at many levels. You will also be recognised and rewarded for your success, whilst investing in your development and wellbeing. They strive to be a vibrant business that values inclusiveness and embraces a difference, where their people are engaged and empowered to deliver outstanding results.

What you’ll be doing


As a Senior Java Developer, you will work within an Agile (Scrum/SAFe) project team focused on hands on development as well taking the lead within a team of developers, sharing common processes and tooling. The team develops across a broad set of technologies and platforms, including; Java microservices, OpenShift, Kafka, Apache Nifi, Camunda, Jenkins, CI/CD and integrating with both internal and external platform partners.
 
  • Taking the Lead in engaging, motivating, and nurturing other developers to understand and maximise their full potential, ensuring high levels of engagement, professionalism, and contribution to the business
  • Implementing features, enhancements, and improvements to Java-based applications in an agile environment
  • Designing and architecting robust and scalable systems using microservice and event-based architectures
  • Taking ownership for delivering your changes from test through to production environments by utilising CD deployment pipelines
  • We are looking for lots of technical experience in Java (Springboot/ Quarkus) and Kafka
  • Kubernetes and Docker experience is key, it would be great if you also have some Angular experience
  • A proven track record working in an agile environment, with a solid background in scaled enterprise microservice development
 
 
What you’ll bring to the team

Within your role as a Senior Java Engineer, you will be making a direct impact.
  • Fantastic communication skills - you love using your leadership capabilities to motivate and cultivate a high performing engineering team
  • An understanding of application and integration patterns and event-based systems design
  • Ensuring the codebase stays at a high standard by participating in code reviews, writing unit tests, refactoring, security hardening etc
 
What you will get in Return

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Java Developer to join a global company with outstanding benefits affecting your money, your life, and your health. You will be rewarded for your ability, performance and attitude and below are a few:
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Life Assurance 
  • 25 days holiday 
  • Private medical insurance 
  • Discretionary performance related bonuses
  • Share scheme
  • Perk box discounts
Apply now for more details and to see the full job description.

Please get in touch if this is something which may be of interest to you and I can run through the full details with you.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.

*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.
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