Senior Java Developer - Hybrid - £50k-£60k DOE, plus flexible benefits - Permanent role

Leading IT Consultancy with offices in UK and Europe (Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland) is looking to recruit permanent Senior Java Developer with expert core Java 17 coding skills for our prestigious international client in the Entertainment sector. Low level code experience is welcomed for this role.

The role will be based full time in an office for the first 3 months (either in Borehamwood, Horsham or Central London) with minimum of 2 days per week in the office thereafter. Occasional travel to Client sites for meetings may be required.

The successful candidate will join an established and experienced Java Consultancy team. We pride ourselves in employing high calibre IT consultants and software engineers and this is a great opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Java Consultants around.

Key skills to have:

Experience of working on large, complex Enterprise systems

Minimum of 5 years experience in Java development including recent Java 17:

• Interceptors and Evaluators
• Concurrency and Multi-threading
• Design Patterns and Functional programming
• Annotation Processors and Reflection
• Java Security and advanced Exception Handling
• An IT related degree or similar qualification

Technical skill set: excellent core Java, IntelliJ IDE, IntelliJ debugging, Javadocs, low level code, GIT, JIRA, Swing,Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Web technologies, XML, Web Services, REST API, JSON, JQuery

Proven strong communicator, who is able to speak about technical matters in non-technical English with business stake-holders

Flexible, can-do attitude, capable of multi-tasking, structured approach and works well within a team environment.

Nice to have skills:

• Preferred additional technical skills: GraphQL, Postgres, Sybase, low level code experience
• Experience of the Entertainment business domain
• Good Front End development including HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap

Our Offer:

• Salary between £50K to £60K depending on experience
• Variety of Benefits available including Pension, Life insurance, Medical & Dental cover, Permanent Health Insurance, Critical Illness benefit
• Generous Holiday Allowance which increases based on length of service
• Variety of work
• Opportunity to progress, both in terms of skills, experience and grade levels quickly for the motivated and talented individual

Main responsibilities of the successful candidate:

• Java Web and desktop application development, enhancements and problem resolution for core, large scale business applications using IntelliJ IDE and associated de-bugging tools
• Extensive use of Jira for managing team work-load, Javadocs and Wiki for documentation
• Quality assurance including peer reviews, Unit and Integration testing
• Release management including source control using Git
• Attending and contributing to Agile scrum meetings and regular team operational meetings.

For further information on this excellent Senior Java Developer role please email CV to the address shown.