JAVA Consultant

Description

You will be joining a small, focused development team that develops our business-critical point- of-sale software and associated suite of services. The team prides itself on working closely together, sharing knowledge, and providing innovative solutions to meet business needs.

This is a 4-month contract to help support the current engineering activities of the team.

What are the Required Technical Skills?

• Strong knowledge of Java lang and Java Design Patterns (Essential)
• Good knowledge of Javascript, HTML and XML
• Good knowledge of MySQL
• Good knowledge of Azure Devops, such as YAML Pipelines
• Good knowledge of Maven, and Git
• Good knowledge of the Windows PowerShell libraries
• Some knowledge of Azure, such as Cosmos DB, Azure Functions and Azure Data Factory
• Some knowledge of Sentry
• Bonus: Knowledge of GWT, C#, .Net and Datadog, Azure Boards, Scrum and Agile

We welcome equivalent skills, for example, you may not be familiar with CosmosDB, but you will still be a perfect candidate if you know MongoDB or any other unstructured query language.

What will a typical day look like?

• Work on varied and interesting project work – both on existing and new applications/services.
• Deliver system improvements, small development changes, new features, and bug fixes.
• Full development lifecycle including code, testing, documentation, and maintenance.
• Delivering focused and being mindful of business needs and requirements.
• Providing clean, tested, understandable, robust and uncomplicated code.

Salary and Benefits

We’re offering a rate of £550 per day for the right person, which we assess based on your own experiences, technical skills and against the principles of our department and our ways of working.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process

We’ll help make the interview process as transparent and stress-free as possible.

We review applications individually, and if we feel you would be a good fit, we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, allowing you to learn about our work in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel this is your opportunity.

Please note this is not a remote role, and we expect that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way in Greater Manchester.