Description
Java Developer - Leeds - Contract - £550 OUTSIDE IR35 - 3 months rolling contract
About us
Working with us you'll be at heart of the technological revolution of one the world's most trusted betting and gaming companies. We deal with projects ranging from widgets, desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites just to name a few. We process 500 online Sportsbook bets per second each Saturday, that's the same as orders processed by Amazon UK, on its busiest day of the year.
We deal with more than 20 million users and 160 terabytes of data daily. Impressed? You can be sure there are many more challenges waiting for you.
Your role in the team
- Develop high-volume, low-latency programs for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.. Be involved in the design process of programs, working closely with architects.. Assist with change management, capacity planning and emergency response as an expert of the runtime environment and business logic behaviour.. Give input and contribute to monitoring & alerting requirements and implementation.
- Prepare and perform releases of software components.
- Help develop & maintain your team CI/CD needs.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternative technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
- Translate non-technical and technical requirements to appropriate audiences.
Skills needed
- 5+ years of Java development experience, strong interest in problem solving, strong analytical skills & independence
- Spring Boot experience
- Experience with NoSQL technologies (Hazelcast, Redis )
- Experience in developing highly scalable REST microservices for Java platform.
- Strong understanding of core Java. Good understanding of JVM, including analysing performance problems and finding optimization opportunities (ability to read GC logs, GC tuning, memory usage ). Distributed computing: Load balancing, Caching, CAP theorem. Experience with managing high load performance applications: monitoring on all layers from CPU to application metrics
- Understanding of common design patterns.
Nice to have
- Experience with monitoring & logging technologies (Splunk, New Relic )
- Experience with infrastructure technologies (AWS, k8s, Terraform, Docker )
- Hands on Linux experience.
- Experience working with pub/sub/messaging systems (Kafka, ActiveMQ )
Interviews start this week so please feel free to contact me via
Lorien Plc is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.