Java Developer

Your new company and role

Hays' Scottish public sector client requires an experienced developer with solid commercial experience of building web applications and REST APIs using Spring Boot in an OpenShift/AWS environment. This role will assist with the delivery of new and improved digital services.

Role responsibilities

Deliver technical solutions that ensure the Housing Management Registers:

• Are upgraded to support compliance with accessibility standards
• Improve operational efficiency for administrative users of the services
• Improve the user experience and user interface
• Ensure compliance with data protection legislation
• Effective support and maintenance of the system components
• Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge in required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
• Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, technique and experience.
• Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests - with appropriate code coverage - and code analysis using code quality tools.
• Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc

What you'll need to succeed

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Java 17+
• Spring boot microservices
• Data modelling and SQL development, ideally PostgreSQL
• REST APIs
• AWS
• Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices, including deployment pipelines

The following skills and experience are desirable for this role:

• JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React
• AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora, API Gateway, CDK
• Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
• Performance tuning and testing
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Docker
• OpenShift
• Spring Web Flow and Spring MVC
• OAuth2
• Template engines such as Thymeleaf
• Typescript

What you need to do now

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