Java developers

You will have a passion for software development and an excellent understanding of how to define and deliver solutions iteratively and collaboratively. You will be involved in all areas of delivery, with the technical gravitas to mentor and inspire the development team; playing an integral part in helping them continuously improve by sharing your own knowledge, experience and insights. You will be confident in challenging business requirements to ensure you are continuously delivering the best possible outcome, harnessing innovation and driving the adoption of new technologies to deliver business value. Your vision and ambition will contribute to shaping our online technology roadmap, influencing our future technical direction and balancing passion with precision to deliver exceptional online service and solutions for our customers.

This is an initial 12 month contract that sits outside IR35. Please note, you’ll be required to work onsite in Paddington, London, for 3 days a week. You must have previous experience using Azure.

Requirements

• Expert understanding of Java, knowledge of other JVM languages such as Kotlin is a plus
• Modern Build Tools including Gradle and Maven
• Comfortable in designing and Implementing Event Driven / Asynchronous Systems using technologies such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Modern Web Frameworks such as Spring or JavaEE and others
• Using GIT and other Version Control Software
• Master of Testing and ensuring quality, performant code using techniques including TDD and BDD and technologies such as Mockito, JUnit, Gatling and Cucumber.
• Deploying and Running Cloud Based Technologies using providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP using Infrastructure as code techniques using tools like Ansible, Terraform or CloudFormation, Containerization using Docker and Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Knowledge and Experience of common agile frameworks and practices, including Scum and Kanban
• Able to work in a DevOps style of working and mentor a team towards it using CI/CD, Automated Testing, Observability, Monitoring and tracing
• Understands the right data for the right job, can work with Relational (such as Postgres) and Non-relational (DynamoDb, MongoDb) data stores and is at ease when working with JSON and XML technologies

We Offer

• Growth opportunities including access to Udemy
• Flexible and autonomous working
• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays. After 2 years you are entitled to 1 additional day/year up to 30 days
• Private Medical Healthcare with Vitality
• Enhanced pension scheme (up to 8% matched)
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave and pay
• Conference Budget
• Annual company team-building trip and Christmas party
• Retail Discounts Scheme
• At our office in Leicester we have a wide range of snacks and drinks to keep you fed and healthy

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment. Check out our Blog: http://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook

Mindera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know.