Java Microservice Developer

Develop and maintain highly scalable, high performance and highly available microservices.
Design, test and deploy new solutions as well as maintaining, integrating and improving existing solutions.
Write well tested, efficient and readable code. The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability.
Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control, and can be incorporated in to continuous integration and deployment patterns.
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
Participate in preparing business cases, requirements documents and product roadmaps for new concepts.
Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the workflow team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work.

Basic Qualifications
2 years engineering experience.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related subject.

Additional Qualifications
Professional certification in Java
Professional certification in AWS

Skills
Experience following and implementing software design patterns.
2 years with Java 8 as well as recent production experience deploying Java based applications
Delivered software based on a microservices software architecture
Significant exposure to the Java Spring Boot framework
Familiarity with tools to ensure that the architecture can be properly reported on, analyzed and supported eg. CloudWatch, Sumo
Building message based AMQP software architectures, including designing message payloads and exchange queuing patterns
REST API design and consumption experience.
Experience in designing and supporting databases both relational PostGres and non-relational Mongo , and a strong understanding of writing queries to surface this data.
Some familiarity with the agile process stand ups, planning, estimating and demoing
Familiarity with designing for and working with the cloud, particularly AWS.
Experience with and exposure to unit testing, test driven development, branching patterns and continuous integration deployment
Good communication skills with ability to facilitate conversations with business stakeholders in project definition, business requirements definition and functional design sessions.