Belfast Office
17a Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
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Northern Ireland
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Java Software Engineer

Job FamilyEngineering
Reports ToHead of Engineering
LocationBelfast or London

Primary purpose of role & level in the business:

As a developer at Dawson Andrews, you’ll be responsible for developing high-quality solutions. You’ll work as part of a team and report to the Head of Engineering. It’s a fast-paced environment, so you will need to make sound, reasoned decisions. As a key role within the team, you will also work closely with clients continually to agree on technical designs, advising clients and managers on estimated effort, and technical implications of user stories and user journeys.

You will continuously share knowledge and mentor the team around you. You’ll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with room to learn, develop and grow.

This application has multiple positions available and we are accepting Senior, Mid-level, and Junior candidates. 

Essential Requirements:

  • 5+ years Java experience
  • 2+ practical experience in Spring Boot
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Experience in 3 or more of the following:
    • TDD
    • Automated acceptance testing / BDD / Cucumber
    • Performance and scalability testing, e.g. JMeter
    • Penetration testing knowledge / OWASP
    • Kubernetes/Container orchestration platform experience
  • Designing, creating and calling HTTP APIs
  • SQL Databases, e.g. Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB
  • Experience in using AWS services - 3+ of the following:
    • EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, Elastic search, EKS, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront.
  • Works well in a team and with minimal supervision

Desirable Requirements:

  • Experience with:
    • CI/CD pipelines setup and config
    • Document-based / No-SQL databases
    • The ELK stack
    • Apache Kafka
    • Spring Security and OAuth2 flows
    • React
    • React Native
    • Keycloak
    • Camunda
    • OpenAPI / Swagger
    • Nginx setup and config

Who you are:

  • You have a ruthless attitude to figure it out and you’re not afraid of taking onus.
  • You should be able to efficiently deliver impactful and scalable software solutions while maintaining sustainable development practices
  • You should be passionate about building a career in digital products and developing your skills to perform alongside the best in the industry.