Java Software Engineer
On site
Reading, United Kingdom
Full Time
15-04-2025
Job Specifications
Lead Java Developer with AWS
A unique development opportunity to work on a Public Sector Based Large Scale program with an innovative market leader as Lead Java Developer.
Requires a Lead Java developer with strong Java experience to create and implement solutions for our portfolio of Biometric products, as well as supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.
You will join a team that prides itself on collaboration and engineering the best possible Java code.
Essential: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring DataJPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services, Messaging (ActiveMQ), Maven, Junit, Jenkins, AWS Cloud hosting and its components, Postgres/Aurora, Bootstrap, Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum), Jaspersoft, Spring extension projects (Data, Cloud, Batch, Security), Angular.
• Public sector experience
• 8-10 years of hands-on experience with large scale Spring based java projects.
• Must have experience of supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.
• Experience in large scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web-services and distributed systems.
• Experience with web-services - (SOAP and RESTful)
• Experience with containerisation (Docker)
• Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Powermock, JMock, DBUnit, TestContainers.
• Experience of connecting processes across several systems with message brokers like ActiveMQ
• Experience of Continuous Integration methodologies – Maven, GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube and Stash
Repository
• Experience of developing in a Linux development environment
• Experience of working with a suite of Atlassian products
• Experience of working with open-source database management systems like PostgreSQL
• Experience of working with AWS services, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch
• Agile development methods – Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD etc
• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities
Desired:
• Experience in AWS DevOps
• Experience of working with Spring Cloud
• Experience of working with Postfix
• Experience of using with monitoring tools – Grafana and Prometheus
• Creates a cohesive working environment and build high performing teams
• Strong stakeholder management
• Expertise in Risk management
About the Company
Mastek is an enterprise digital and cloud transformation partner that engineers excellence for customers in industries such as healthcare and life sciences, retail & consumer, manufacturing, financial services, and public sector across 40 countries, including the UK, US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Mastek helps enterprises decomplex digital and delivers business outcomes with trust, value, and velocity across the spectrum of services including digital experience & engineering, cloud implementations, data, auto... Know more
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