Senior Java Engineer – Cloud & Microservices

Hippo Digital Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

25 days holiday

Perkbox access

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work

EV salary sacrifice

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Hippo Digital Limited is recruiting Senior Java Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Java Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain user-centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

You will act as a senior consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices and drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and help upskill others.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
• The full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
• A full stack developer using core Java, CXF, Spring Boot, Jetty, Mustache, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular
• Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
• Experience of Microservices design and architecture
• Restful API Services experience
• Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
• Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
• Infrastructure As Code – CloudFormation, Terraform or ARM or similar
• Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian
• Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical SME within the squad to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
• Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
• Involved in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)

Skills

Java

CXF

Spring Boot

Jetty

Mustache

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Node

React

Angular

Docker

Kubernetes

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

DevOps

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild

Azure DevOps

Atlassian

CloudFormation

Terraform

ARM templates

GOV/NHS experience

Tools

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild

Azure DevOps

Atlassian

CloudFormation

Terraform

ARM templates

Job description

Hippo Digital Limited is recruiting Senior Java Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Java Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain user-centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

You will act as a senior consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices and drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and help upskill others.