Lead Java Developer – Azure

Role Overview

• You will be responsible for creating an enterprise quality Optimisation and ML based solution
• You will be involved in technology selection, API design, and establishing core patterns within our products and client projects
• You will consider the functional and non-functional requirements to inform these decisions and lead our development team in implementing them
• You will work with our world class Optimisation, Data Science and Data Engineering teams to provide robust, high quality, performant cloud based solutions for our customers
• This is not a role for someone who doesn’t love development
• Our engineers are expected to prove solutions and contribute to the development team, as well as reviewing code and driving improvement to our development practice and processes
• At the same time, you need to be a great communicator: the role includes direct interaction with our clients and business stakeholders, which are a mixture of technical and non-technical audiences
• Writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape
• Creating hybrid serverless and containerised solutions to execute optimisation, data science and ML models
• Contributing to existing deployment pipelines and cloud IaC deployment packages
• Understanding and relating customer/business needs to the technical solutions we create
• Liaising with the customer, product owners and programme architects to ensure that the work we are doing is correct and architecturally sound
• Making technology and approach choices to meet NFRs whilst delivering good value for money

Requirements

• Having an excellent understanding of Java 17+, Spring and Spring Boot
• Having in-depth knowledge of Azure including a good understanding of both containerisation and serverless technologies
• Experience writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape
• Having a solid understanding of traditional Design Patterns and the ability to adapt these to the AI world
• Being a strong proponent for rigorous quality processes, automated testing and IaC principles
• Having excellent written, spoken and diagrammatic communication skills, with the ability to convey technical and abstract principles to technical and non-technical audiences
• Industry experience with an Infrastructure-as-Code platform (e.g. Terraform)
• A strong understanding of both serverless development and containerisation approaches to deploying software to the cloud
• A working knowledge of Python and Terraform
• you will be working with Data and Platform specialists and we encourage cross-functional collaboration over silos
• If you know some of this, even better: A working knowledge of Javascript or Typescript

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• Terraform
• TypeScript

Benefits

• enhanced pension
• life assurance
• income protection
• private healthcare
• Remote working
• café, bedroom, beach
• wherever works
• Truly flexible working hours
• school pick up, volunteering, gym
• Generous Leave
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave
• Annual bonus
• when Satalia does well, we all do well
• Impactful projects
• focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change
• People oriented culture
• wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person
• Transparent and open culture
• you will be heard
• Development
• focus on bringing the best out of each other