Java Software Engineers

You will not only participate in customer-driven projects, but will be expected to drive the strategic direction of future product developments. Currently the company are working with agile methodologies in parallel with delivery according to more traditional approaches and processes. They promote an open and challenging environment where individuals are encouraged to contribute and engage in the future of the company.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Analysis of new requirements from clients and internal users
• Design, code and test of new functional modules as well as maintaining existing code.
• Prioritise a busy work schedule to meet tight deadlines
• Maintain a commitment to a quality approach to software development
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and give significant input during technical discussions.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

We are interested in Java developers with sound commercial experience of Object Orientated design and development of a number of complex server side applications. The core technology skills required are Java and SQL.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies, in particular Adobe Flex and BlazeDS. Flex has been selected as the UI technology of choice for the department and there are opportunities to develop or enhance your skills in this area.
• Educated to degree level in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Unix / Linux development environment
• Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Multi-threaded applications
• XML and related technologies (XSL, xpath)
• JMS (e.g. ActiveMQ), Drools Expert, Drools Flow, Spring, Tomcat, JPA (e.g. Hibernate)
• Requirements Writing


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