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Posted 16 July, 2020
Auto Trader

Java Developers

Manchester, UK Full Time
Salary: £30,000 to £70,000 Annually

We're looking for exceptional Java developers of all levels: Professional, Senior and Principal. If you're the kind of developer who combines a...

We're looking for exceptional Java developers of all levels: Professional, Senior and Principal. If you're the kind of developer who combines a product-focused approach with proven technical ability, you'll go far here. You'll apply your creativity and curiosity to collaborate with our discovery-driven, agile teams, using data insight and regular customer feedback to engineer market-leading digital products.

Whether Professional, Senior or Principal you'll bring:

  • An excellent understanding of Java and the JVM
  • Knowledge of server-side frameworks such as Spring
  • Web application design and RESTful API know-how
  • A structured approach to programming, such as TDD

Although not a requirement, useful experience includes:

  • SQL/Relational databases
  • Document/Map based storage (eg: MongoDB)
  • Working with the Kafka messaging/streaming

As a Professional Java developer, you'll bring your passion for software craftmanship. You'll thrive in our dynamic work environment contributing to our Scrum/Kanban teams. You'll bring a sound engineering practice, attention to detail, and an appreciation for clean code and structured programming approaches such as TDD.

As a Senior Java developer, you will not only help create insight-driven, market-leading digital products, you'll also help mentor and coach our apprentices, graduates and professional developers. Comfortable talking about system design and architecture, you'll know how to get the best out of our cross-functional teams, technical platforms and agile working practices.

As a Principal Java developer, you'll play a visible and vital role. In addition to the above, you'll also help run our teams, utilising your expertise to lead and inspire those around you. We'll look to you to devise elegant and innovative solutions to challenging problems - keeping user experience and cross-functional requirements such as scalability,span> performance, quality and security in mind throughout the development lifecycle.

We offer a salary between £30,000 - £70,000 depending on the level of role and a great flexible benefits package including 28 days annual leave, not including bank holidays - plus ½ day afternoon office closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve, pension and healthcare. We believe in providing more than just salary and benefits. We'll give you time and support so you can develop your career.

Our developers attend conferences, we host external meet-ups in our event space and offer masterclasses focusing on communication, team working and leadership. As you can see, it's not limited to what you learn at your desk. If we sound like the kind of place for you then we would love to hear from you

Everyone is unique in their own way and we are looking for people from all walks of life to become part of our inclusive culture. We're committed to making Auto Trader a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone. Diversity for us means respect for and appreciation of differences in gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, race and ethnic origin, religion and faith, marital status, social, educational background and way of thinking. Our dedication is to ensure you get the chance to be the best that you can be, showcase your full potential and make the right choice for you.

Due to the effects of Coronavirus, currently all our employees are working from home. We are closely monitoring government guidelines and are looking forward to returning to our offices when it is safe to do so. If you are successful in applying to this role you will take part in a virtual assessment process, and may even be on-boarded virtually depending on timeframes.

Full or Part time.

To find out more about our developer opportunities across all levels please click APPLY NOW.

This listing expired on 15 Aug. Applications are no longer accepted.

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