Software Development Engineer

From providing customers the most trusted vehicle history checks on the market and partnering with some of the UK's biggest brands to provide data, the consumer and digital team touches the lives of millions of people every month.

As a member of the Product Development team, you will be responsible for delivering projects related to the technical development, support and maintenance of the company's customer facing applications and internal applications to defined standards and to a high quality. You will champion areas of technologies, assist in defining standards, interact and communicate with other areas of the business, gather requirements and effectively manage expectations.

What You'll Do

• Deliver work streams in an Agile environment to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Maintain a strong technical understanding and promote the use of the latest software and technologies.
• Develop robust, resilient solutions that meet the Solera standards.
• Advocate testing, change and release management processes.
• Suggest and deliver continuous improvement items aligned with the strategic direction of Product Development.
• Suggest innovative approaches to new and existing ways of working.
• It is your responsibility to complete all mandated information security and business continuity training and awareness courses.
• You should be familiar with all appropriate policies, procedures, processes and guidelines that support you in your relevant role.
• Provide support for ensuring continued alignment of company ISO processes managed by the IS/BC team.
• Take a proactive approach towards security threats and focus on browser compatibility and device support.

As a member of the Development Team, you should have: -

• Over 3 years' experience of delivering IT development projects.
• A related degree or equivalent qualifications / experience.

Required:

• Java 8 - 21
• Java Webapps (such as Tomcat / Websphere, Spring MVC)
• Stored Procedures (MSSQL, DB2, Mongo, Postgres)
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Concourse, Git, GitLab, Octopus
• Apache, Nginx
• Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban, Pair Programming, TDD

Desirable:

• Test tooling - Selenium, JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock, Karma, Jasmine
• REST/JSON APIs (Swagger, HATEOAS)
• Spring (including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch)
• Build tools (Maven, Ant)
• Unix
• JavaScript (including JSON, Typescript, AngularJS/Angular)
• ELK stack
• Websphere

Required Attributes and Characteristics

• High attention to detail

• Flexibility

• Forward-thinking with drive and determination

• Strong analytical & solution design skills

• Team player with the ability to work independently where needed

• Logical approach to problem solving and strong troubleshooting skills

• Have a demonstrable track record of building for the public web

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life's other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com.