Senior Java Backend Developer

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd

Leeds, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Job location

Leeds, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java

Cloud Storage

Profiling

Continuous Integration

Relational Databases

DevOps

Github

Protocol Buffers

Gradle

Hazelcast

Identity and Access Management

Java Persistence API

Maven

Enterprise Messaging Systems

MongoDB

OAuth

Octopus Deploy

Open Web Application Security

Performance Tuning

Query Optimization

RabbitMQ

Redis

Prometheus

SQL Databases

Tripwire

DevOps Tools - Open-source

Grafana

Spring-boot

Kubernetes Helm Charts

Caching

Apigee

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Gitlab

GIT

Spring Data

Kubernetes

Avro

Kafka

Functional Programming

Api Gateway

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Terraform

Dynatrace

Docker

Jenkins

Vulnerability Analysis

Microservices

Job description

Job Description:

Mandatory Skills & Experience

Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.
Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
SQL & RDBMS: Schema design, indexes, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels.
Apache Kafka: Topic design, partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retries/DLQ, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf.
GCP: Familiarity with Cloud Run or GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, IAM, VPC; cost/perf trade-offs.
DevOps Tooling: Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab), Docker; Kubernetes fundamentals; IaC awareness.
Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).

Non-Mandatory (Nice-to-Have)

MongoDB (schema design, indexes, aggregation).
Messaging systems: RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, or SQS/SNS.
Caching & Performance: Redis, Hazelcast; rate limiting; API gateways (Kong/Apigee).
Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing.
Build & Infra: Maven/Gradle tuning, Helm charts, Terraform, Argo CD.
Testing: Testcontainers, WireMock/MockServer, contract testing (Pact), chaos testing basics.
Security: mTLS, secrets rotation, vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy), supply chain security.

Skill Matrix-

Java Backend Developer

Java 8/17

Spring

Spring Boot

Microservices

Microservice Design Principles

Devops

APIGEE

GCP

Requirements

Java 17: Functional programming features, records, sealed classes, performance considerations.
Spring Boot: Auto-configuration, profiles, Spring Data/JPA, WebFlux (nice), validation, actuator.
SQL & RDBMS: Schema design, indexes, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels.
Apache Kafka: Topic design, partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retries/DLQ, schema registry/Avro/Protobuf.
GCP: Familiarity with Cloud Run or GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, IAM, VPC; cost/perf trade-offs.
DevOps Tooling: Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab), Docker; Kubernetes fundamentals; IaC awareness.
Software Engineering Fundamentals: DDD concepts, SOLID, testing (unit/integration), performance profiling, and security basics (OAuth2/JWT, OWASP Top 10).

Non-Mandatory (Nice-to-Have)

MongoDB (schema design, indexes, aggregation).
Messaging systems: RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, or SQS/SNS.
Caching & Performance: Redis, Hazelcast; rate limiting; API gateways (Kong/Apigee).
Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing.
Build & Infra: Maven/Gradle tuning, Helm charts, Terraform, Argo CD.
Testing: Testcontainers, WireMock/MockServer, contract testing (Pact), chaos testing basics.
Security: mTLS, secrets rotation, vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy), supply chain security.

Skill Matrix-

Java Backend Developer

Java 8/17

Spring

Spring Boot

Microservices