Java Software Engineer

We are in the process of building, evolving and rolling out our inhouse built Fulfilment Point System (FPS) platform to all our Customer Order Fulfilment locations within the UK and Internationally. FPS is new generation Fulfilment application which enables all the customer order fulfilment centres to pick, marshal and dispatch customer orders on one hand and own the site workflow through a real-time visualisation and intervention tool, on the other hand.

Ours is a globally distributed, full stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:

• Java, RxJava, SpringBoot
• React and Node JS
• Kafka, PostgreSQL and Couchbase
• Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic
• Azure Cloud

We are responsible for software throughout its lifecycle. We maintain a DevOps culture employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.

Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. Responsible for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Your applications make previously challenging tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal.

High level expectations from the role:

• Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and own the implementation.
• Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
• You showcase outstanding behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team.
• Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software

Experience relevant for this job:

• Previous experience of having done product development using agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
• Any previous experience of having participated in globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus

Skills relevant for the job:

Programming

• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice.
• Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
• Comfortably debug/find sophisticated problems

Design

• Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
• Understand Idempotence
• Actively practice the boy scout principle, leaves design, code in a better state than when arrived
• Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
• Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consist
• Understand how to design for performance at all levels
• Development Practice
• Automate everything by default
• Build a CI/CD pipeline

Tech Stack Specialisation

• Java, Spring boot
• Kafka
• Postgres
• Couchbase
• CI/CD: Jenkins / Azure pipelines / Git Actions.
• Cloud: Azure