National Security Java Engineer | Spring, Microservices

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & Optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting FutureNow seeks Java Developers and Software Engineers to join the National Security business. You will work across secure, enterprise-scale applications, modernisation programmes and cloud-enabled solutions.

You’ll write high-quality Java, participate in design reviews, and collaborate with architects, product owners and multidisciplinary teams. You’ll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, deliver real business

Qualifications

• Proven experience building Java-based applications and RESTful services.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Frameworks and microservice architectures.
• Solid understanding of OO design, testing and quality practices.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain Java-based applications and services.
• Build backend services and REST APIs using Java and frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot.
• Contribute to microservice and distributed application architectures.
• Develop clean, maintainable and appropriately tested code.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to engineering decisions.
• Diagnose and resolve complex software and production issues.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration and component tests.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines and modern software deployment practices.
• Collaborate with Architects, DevOps, Test Engineers and other Software Engineers.
• Support applications through development, testing and production environments.
• Contribute to code reviews and engineering standards.
• Engage with client stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor less experienced engineers where appropriate.

Skills

Java Engineering

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Object-Oriented Programming

API development

Unit testing

Integration testing

JUnit

Mockito

WireMock

Test-driven development

Automated testing

Code reviews

Engineering quality practices

Modern Software Delivery

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

IBM MQ

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting FutureNow seeks Java Developers and Software Engineers to join the National Security business. You will work across secure, enterprise-scale applications, modernisation programmes and cloud-enabled solutions.

You’ll write high-quality Java, participate in design reviews, and collaborate with architects, product owners and multidisciplinary teams. You’ll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, deliver real business