Senior Java Backend Engineer

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Salary: £65,000 to £70,000

Location: Hampshire, Hybrid 2 days p/w

What You'll Do:

Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through, but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.How You'll Do It:

Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology
Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

Primarily remain in a stationary position.
No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
Primarily performed indoors in an office setting
Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have:

JavaSE 8 or above development experience
Microservices development experience
Digital payments experience
Have used several testing frameworks such as Junit/Mockito/Gatling
SQL/NoSQL
RESTful APIs
Kafka
OpenShift/Kubernetes
Helm Charts
AWS
Jenkins
Git

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