Mid-Senior Full Stack Java Developer at First Derivative

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

First Derivatives are actively hiring full stack Java developers to work on a range of projects with our Capital Markets clients.

• Building highly-available, fault-tolerant code
• Identifying problems and code reverse engineering
• Test Driven Development with appropriate unit tests for every functional change
• Working with the BA team to complete Spikes and analyse issues
• Supporting the QA team for Functional and Regression Testing
• Working with the wider Dev team to ensure the success of each Sprint
• Balancing technical implementation with the business schedule and deadlines
• Collaboration with Scrum Master and wider management team when required

Skills:

• 2 + years of experience and excellent knowledge of Core Java (i.e. Collections, - Generics and Functional Programming etc.)
• Front end experience - ReactJs / Angular / Native JavaScript.
• An ability to break down a problem and present a logical solution or next step to solving a problem
• Experienced in source code control and CI Systems (i.e. git/bit bucket/stash, Jenkins etc.)
• Experience in Cloud technologies i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure (desirable)
• Comfortable with modern IDEs (Eclipse and IntelliJ)
• Experience with build automation and dependency management tools like Gradle
• Experience with IoC frameworks like Spring
• Experience with RDBMS (Sybase, DB2 and PostgreSQL)
• Comfortable working across both Windows and Unix
• An ability to work independently and reach out to the team for support in a timely fashion
• Good written and spoken English

Company Benefits

• Private pension
• Bonus Scheme
• Health Insurance
• Death Cover
• Cycle to work scheme

Interview Process

• Initial HR introductory call
• Java Hackerrank technical test
• Technical interview
• Final stage