We are currently looking for an experienced Senior JEE developer to join our high energy R&D department. We want a highly motivated developer to be part of an agile development team within a fast-paced environment. This is a hands-on role which will involve design, reviews, coding and trouble shooting. The position will be based at our headquarters in Limerick, Ireland.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyse, design and code in Java/Java JEE environment
• Develop green field microservices to run in a cloud native environment using Java
• Design, code, test, debug, document microservice applications and enhancements
• Support CI/CD tools integration
• Develop high-level system architecture designs
• Drive these designs through development, testing, documentation and delivery
• Review design, functional specifications and code
• Create and review test plans and test tools
• Contribute to continuous process improvements
• Install and deliver developed applications to customer sites
• Report on project progression to Senior Management
• Collaborate with and mentor other team members on application architecture, design and decision-making.

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You will have a relevant degree, a minimum of 6 years Java software development experience and a strong background in the following areas:

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge of Spring framework, Spring Boot etc.
• Strong knowledge of web services (REST/JSON)
• Excellent understanding of design principles
• Experience with svn, Git, GitLab
• Unix/Linux experience
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Developing microservice-based applications from scratch, an understanding of the associated architectures and design patterns etc.
• Cloud development and deployment (AWS, Google, OpenStack etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible
• Working in Continuous Integration and Delivery environments with Jenkins®
• TLS, OAuth experience
• Experience with OpenAPI, Prometheus, Jaeger and Logging frameworks such as Fluentd
• Scripting experience in Python, Perl
• Familiarity with Redis, Cassandra
• Kafka experience
• Elasticsearch experience
• Virtualisation
• Database experience encompassing schema design, SQL, noSQL
• Agile development methods, like SCRUMs and SPRINTs