Senior Java Developer at Pyramid Consulting Europe Ltd, Osterley, 6 Months, £Negotiable Rate

As a Software Developer you'll be knowledgeable, experienced and passionate about technology, enjoy pairing with other smart people and use agile methodologies to ensure your projects and team-mates succeed to add value to client products and services.

What you'll do:

• Develop, deploy and maintain applications .
• You will be part of the primary system orchestrator that handles all Sales & Service-related transactions, from supporting customer checkout journeys to dealing with Salesforce agent transactions, such as refunds, etc.
• Be part of a team that embraces DevOps culture, from tweaking our Kubernetes deployments to ensuring our deployment pipelines are stable and constantly being iterated for improvement - we support what we ship and therefore embrace TDD
• Strive on making our customer experience the best it can be by being proactive, open-minded and innovative to find improvements in areas such as performance, eg, our recent introduction of asynchronous architecture
• Be able to adapt quickly to our fast-paced environment, with a full backlog spanning many projects
• We provide training and support for everyone in the team, and career progression is important to us

What you'll bring:

• Excellent core Java knowledge
• Advocate of Test-Driven Development
• Application development experience on building large scale, high volume and REST-compliant web services
• Experience of working with distributed systems, specifically microservice architecture
• Knowledge of asynchronous message processing, preferably Kafka Agile development, in particular Scrum and XP; comfortable with practices like pair programming and code review
• Best practices for providing API documentation to our team, our clients and our stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience of monitoring production systems and exposing application metrics
• Best practices of performance tuning, application resiliency, such as the use of Hystrix, Resilience4J
• Setting standards for the team to follow, technical direction, working with other seniors
• Thorough and systematic approach towards troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production issues

Nice to have

• Knowledge of tuning JVM settings to gain maximum performance
• Proficient in another programming language
• Experience with OpenAPI