Position: Java Developer
Company: Unit City
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y

You will be comfortable in working within an agile and creative development environment on a wide variety of exciting products and features, reacting to constantly evolving and rapidly expanding market.

 The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, motivated and confident developer who will work directly with key stakeholders and closely with cross-functional development teams to deliver world-class software, meeting the highest standards of technical certification.

 **Job Purpose:**

The successful candidate will work within the Java team and be involved in all aspects of Java development. This will involve working with technical colleagues, project managers and business owners to develop and maintain a multi-tier platform. Successful candidates are expected to take ownership of development tasks and provide estimates and documentation for the chosen solution. Support will form part of the responsibilities and will involve liaising with internal personnel to help investigate and resolve issues.

** Description of Job Responsibilities:**

Working with project managers, business owners, and external customers to implement new projects and functionality in a fast paced agile environment
Taking lead development roles on projects, including making architectural decisions, and taking responsibility for the full development lifecycle
Maintenance of existing code including bug fixes and optimisations
Identifying root cause of incidents to improve operational efficiency and deliver suitable solutions
Enhancing our back-office tools, including identifying and implementing enhancements for teams such as Customer Services and Account Management as well as development
Documenting developed solutions.
Other duties as assigned
 
**Essential Skills:**

7+ years of experience Java (preferably Java 8)
Clean coding methodologies (SOLID, YAGNI)
Spring MVC, Spring Boot
Extensive experience with REST
Good understanding of microservices architecture and DDD (Domain Driven Design)
Unit testing frameworks (Junit, Mockito)
Git
Maven
Jenkins
SQL
 
**Desirable Skills:**

Event driven architectures based in RabbitMQ or Kafka
NoSQL (Cassandra/Mongo)
In-memory caches (Redis, Hazelcast)
BDD Concepts
Performance monitoring and tuning
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Self-motivated and solution-oriented
Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through
Confident, strategic thinker
Strong presentations skills
Demonstrates ability to adapt to various Client corporate cultures
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to plan strategically, but stay on top of tactical execution
Demonstrate strong ability to contribute ideas and solutions which will make a real difference to this fast growing business in the exciting gaming market