Java/FullStack Developer - UK

Who are we
Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries, including banking & financial services, insurance, retail, higher education, food, healthcare, and manufacturing.

The Role

• Should have rich knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies; excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple complex issues and motivating team to achieve peak performance
  
• Create a comprehensive architecture for a software solution and providing strategic direction throughout the development process. Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable solutions using Java, Spring boot, Microservices technologies.
  
• Work closely with business stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements, translating them into technical specifications and architectural designs.
  
• Convert visionary concepts into enterprise-wide systems.
  
• Coordinate with all stakeholders in architectural designs and software development.
  
• Ensure compliance of best practices and policies in software development. Perform code reviews and provide feedback to team members to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
  
• Providing guidance for the architectural planning for framework. Monitor team of developers and engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and support to ensure the successful implementation of projects.
  
• Creating technical literature, such as training materials or sample code, to encourage acceptance of frameworks
  
• Ensuring system integrity by utilizing proper architectural designs
  
• Advising on security methods and implementing them
  
• Design and deploy Java applications.
  
• Develop strategic, logical, and physical designs.
  
• Ensure products or projects are robust, scalable, and extensible.
  
• Expertise in using Agile methodology
  
• Analyse user requirements to define business objectives
  
• Envisioning system features and functionality
  
• Define application objectives and functionality
  
• Ensure application designs conform with business goals
  
• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising
  
• Write well-designed, testable code
  
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
  
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review
  
  

Requirements

• Good hands-on in Java, J2EE, Databases (Postgres), Web Services (REST, SOAP), Spring boot, Spring MVC, Spring 4.0, Hibernate/JPA, API Gateway, Azure and Microservices. 
  
• 5-12 years of experience desired in designing software solutions using software architecture design principles.
  
• Payment domain expertise and ability to drive the team, integrations, migrations, create approach. 
  
• Good to have experience in Angular, and front-end technologies.
  
• Understanding of Kafka, PCF, Integration patterns, Security standards, Concurrency and Multi-threading, Collections, PostgreSQL, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
  
• Hands-on, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function independently under pressure.
  
• Strong Problem-Solving skills.
  
• Distributed systems (Databases, caches, microservices, message broker) 
  
• API and Contract Testing using REST Assured/Postman/Swagger/SOAP UI + Groovy/Spring Cloud Contract
  
• Test Driven Development TDD Methodology and Unit Testing using   Junit/XCTest
  
• Use of mocking frameworks such as API Service Virtualization/Mockito/OCMock
  
• Static Code Analysis using SonarQube/Xcode Static Analyzer
  
• Hands on with Jenkins/PCF or similar tools for automated provisioning of build and test infrastructure.
  
• Troubleshooting with Splunk, API aids like Swagger/Postman and source control systems like Git
  
• Intermediate knowledge of Maven, Junit, Redis, Oracle database, SQL, Unix command, Shell scripting.
  
• Good to have exposure to Financial/Banking Domain, Frontend development, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap/Material UI, Angular.
  
• Good knowledge of tools like Sonar, Data-dog/Dynatrace, GIT, SVN, Rally/Jira, CI (Jenkin / Bamboo)/CD, Splunk
  
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – with strong relationship, collaborative skills, and organizational skills
  
• Proven experience in Agile methodology, SDLC & implementation of Projects, debugging the applications.