PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
As a Senior Java Engineer, you’ll be involved with day-to-day coding standards and best practices. You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise, and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business. You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SOMETHING BIG:
- As a Senior Java Engineer, you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software
- You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations, and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose
- You’ll report to a Principal Engineer and will help him/her deliver on the technical strategy
- You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard
Tech Stack:
- Microservices, Java 17, Spring boot, Circle CI, Docker, AWS EKS
- A range of AWS networking, database, and application integration services
- New relic, sonar cloud
OUR IDEAL TEAMMATE HAS/IS:
- You’re a true engineer with a passion for well-crafted clean and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance
- You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration
- You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve
- You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, encouraging those around you to do the same
- You love engineering and constantly want to learn more
- You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD and DevOps
- You are an expert in Java (Spring) and perhaps some other languages too