Creative jobs in United Kingdom

Xebia is a trusted advisor in the modern era of digital transformation, serving hundreds of leading brands worldwide with end-to-end IT solutions. The company has experts specializing in technology consulting, software engineering, AI, digital products and platforms, data, cloud, intelligent automation, agile transformation, and industry digitization. In addition to providing high-quality digital consulting and state-of-the-art software development, Xebia has a host of standardized solutions that substantially reduce the time-to-market for businesses.

Xebia also offers a diverse portfolio of training courses to help support forward-thinking organizations as they look to upskill and educate their workforce to capitalize on the latest digital capabilities. The company has a strong presence across 16 countries with development centres across the US, Latin America, Western Europe, Poland, the Nordics, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

As a senior Developer you will work in a cross‑functional team with the Product Owner, Designers and engineers to co‑develop the digital products. Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development.

• Use Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client, customer and employee experience.
• Work with other team members to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements.
• Liaise with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks.
• Drive forward and role‑model best practice engineering processes and Agile behaviour, ensuring team members follow suit.
• Communicate with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines.
• Own and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment.

• At least 8 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams.
• Full stack engineer with a passion for mentoring other colleagues in the team.
• Extensive experience of Java 7/8, Java EE, Spring framework including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Messaging, JPA, ORM, Maven and other Java Open Source frameworks.
• Expertise with developing Cloud Native Microservices, Event Driven design and Development using Java with extensive knowledge of Integration Gateway, Monitoring tools, Observability platforms like Grafana.
• Excellent Knowledge of ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDb, Apache Kafka.
• Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, OAuth, LDAP, Search Technologies.
• Expertise with Docker & Kubernetes.
• Extensive experience with Git, such as branching, merging, tagging and Pull Requests.
• Experience with CI-CD (Jenkins or similar).
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and one common database technology, such as Oracle, MsSql, MySQL.
• Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design‑driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security.
• Working knowledge and experience in designing distributed applications.
• Working knowledge of DevOps, Docker and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with at least one unit testing framework, such as jUnit.
• Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming is a plus.