Senior Java Developer - Hybrid - £55k-£65k DOE, plus flexible benefits - Permanent role

Senior Java Developer - Hybrid - £55k-£65k DOE, plus flexible benefits - Permanent role

Leading IT Consultancy with offices in UK and Europe (Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland) is looking to recruit permanent Senior Java Developer with expert core Java 17 coding skills for our prestigious international client in the Entertainment sector.

The role will be based full time in an office for the first 3 months (either in Borehamwood, Horsham or Central London) with minimum of 2 days per week in the office thereafter. Occasional travel to Client sites for meetings may be required.

The successful candidate will join an established and experienced Java Consultancy team. We pride ourselves in employing high calibre IT consultants and software engineers and this is a great opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced Java Consultants around.

As OCS is part of an Employee Ownership Trust, after a qualifying period the successful candidate will be able to contribute to the company's future vision and share in the profits.

Key skills to have:

• Experience of working on large, complex Enterprise systems
• Minimum of 6 years' experience in Java development including recent Java 17:
  • Deep knowledge of JDK 8 to 17
  • Expertise with Java libraries including Collections
  • Stream API
  • Memory management and performance tuning
  • Interceptors and Evaluators
  • Concurrency and Multi-threading
  • Design Patterns and Functional programming
  • Annotation Processors and Reflection
  • Java Security and advanced Exception Handling
  • Technical skill set: excellent core Java coding skills, IntelliJ IDE, IntelliJ debugging, Javadocs, SQL, Postgres, Hibernate, GIT Hub, JIRA, Web technologies, XML, Web Services, REST API, JSON, jQuery
  • An IT related degree or similar qualification
  • Proven strong communicator, who is able to speak about technical matters in non-technical English with business stakeholders
  • Flexible, can-do attitude, capable of multi-tasking, structured approach and works well within a team environment.

Nice to have skills:

• Preferred additional technical skills: GraphQL, Sybase, Framework development experience
• Experience of the Entertainment business domain
• Good Front End development including HTML5, CSS3, TinyMCE

Main responsibilities of the successful candidate:

• Java Enterprise and Web application development, enhancements and problem resolution for large scale business applications using IntelliJ IDE and associated de-bugging tools
• Extensive use of Jira for managing teamwork load, Javadocs and Wiki for documentation
• Quality assurance including peer reviews, Unit and Integration testing
• Release management including source control using GIT Hub
• Attending and contributing to Agile scrum meetings and regular team operational meetings.

Our Offer:

• Salary between £55K to £65K depending on experience
• Variety of Benefits available including Pension, Life insurance, Medical & Dental cover, Permanent Health Insurance, Critical Illness benefit
• Generous Holiday Allowance which increases based on length of service
• Variety of work
• Opportunity to progress, both in terms of skills, experience and grade levels quickly for the motivated and talented individual

For further information on this excellent Senior Java Developer role please email CV to the address shown.