Java API Developer

Java API Developer

Job Req ID: 16679 Posting Date: 20 Jun 2023 Function: Engineering Location: Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom Salary: Competitive with great benefits Why this job matters As an API Engineer with strong Java experience, you are a critical member of engineering team.
You will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining Restful APIs to support our digital experiences.
You will be at the leading edge of development and will contribute to transforming our working culture and digital presence using agile ways of working. What you’ll be doing

• Design, develop and maintain microservices-based applications using Java
• Write clean, efficient and maintainable code that adheres to API standardization
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of coding standards
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of a strong engineering culture within the team
• Design and develop APIs to support digital experiences using open source and cloud technology
• Work as part of an agile team to turn complex business needs into elegant solutions
• Collaborate with architects, designers, analysts, product specialists, and other software engineers
• Conduct design reviews to ensure solutions fit our architecture, security, scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
• Provide squad level engineering leadership and contribute to our engineering community and standards
• Provide assistance to QA and support colleagues as needed to resolve problems

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale, complex systems
• Strong experience with Java 11, 17 and spring boot
• Strong experience with unit test and integration test build
• Experience in developing microservices-based applications
• Experience with API standardization
• Experience with AWS
• Good understanding on CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins
• Good understanding on Agile software development methodologies
• Development experience using TDD in Java
• Experience designing microservices architecture
• Experience building RESTful web services and GraphQL
• Experience in workflow systems such as flowable and Netflix Conductor
• Knowledge of web security, application security, web services security, common vulnerability remediation, certificate management
• DevOps experience
• Good knowledge with different testing suites
• People Management Skillsets

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Our leadership standards Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation. Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making. Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best. About us BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.