Java Lead

• Talented and enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer, bringing a broad range of experiences and a passion for modern development technologies and practices.

• Ability to earn customer loyalty - Building great products that delight our customers and transform the way they engage with us. We're also building a world-class capability to build and ship high quality products, leading the way across Vodafone to transform the way we deliver our solutions - and it's here where this role is so important to us. Our digital channels are used by millions of our customers and we have big plans for the future!

• Ability to quickly develop new and improved applications based on secure, reliable and scalable services, based on a cloud-based micro-services architecture.

• You'll strive to continuously learn, develop and improve the services and your own skills.            

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:        

• Hands on development of micro-services as part of a development squad using Scrum/Kanban              

• Driving the quality and performance of owned micro- services, through the use of standards and best practices              

• Establishing a culture of continuous improvement through learning, training and coaching              

• Ensuring quality is at the heart of everything you and your team does              

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs within a micro-services architecture

• Extensive commercial experience of Java (v17 or higher), Spring/Spring Boot

• Understands design patterns, clean code

• Testing your code through the use of TDD/BDD and associated tools. Understands unit/integration/E2E/performance tests.

• Practical knowledge of working in Scrum or other agile practices.

• Ability to support and coach junior developers.

• An ability to challenge others in doing what’s right for the business.

• A passion for finding solutions to problems that haven’t been solved before.          

Key performance indicators:                

• Experience in AWS services or similar.                  

• Use of Docker or other container management.

• Knowledge of monitoring, observability.

• Experience in Production Support, Oncall - triage/troubleshooting of issues.

• Knowledge of some APM - preferably Datadog.                  

Competency:

• Strong Communication Skills

• Demonstrates effective Decision making

• Great Team player - works well in collaboration

• Ability to explain Tech stuff to non Tech ppl