Software Engineer (Java) in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Job Title: Java Software Developer
Location: Portsmouth
Pay Rate: £70 per hour Inside IR35

Job Summary

The department develops and supports a number of software products used to operate complex satellite payloads designed at the Airbus Defence & Space UK sites in Stevenage and Portsmouth. These key products use a mix of architectures and languages satisfying various customer (internal and external) needs. As well as maintaining and developing current software products, a number of legacy Python/C++ products need to be re-architected in Java to fulfil customer requirements.

Job Profile

The successful candidate should demonstrate experience in software development utilising Java Spring technologies across windows/Linux application archetypes as well as with Relational/NoSQL database server, setup, performance tuning, replication etc. Experience of modern development methodologies is paramount, with fluency in Maven, CI (Jenkins) and Test Driven Development.

The developer will work as part of a small team under a software architect, working within an agile project environment to develop, integrate, test and debug software both in simulation and in payload hardware environments.

Skills/Experience Required

Essential -

* UK SC clearance required
* Demonstrable experience of developing client/server or distributed software solutions in Java.
* Problem solving and the ability to think laterally as part of a team or individually to meet the needs of the project.
* The ability to work unsupervised, within a team on multiple and concurrent tasks to tight deadlines.

Technical Knowledge:
* Java 8 onwards
* Spring Framework
* Message-based parsing (JSON & XML)
* Importance of TDD & BDD
* Agile team working using JIRA
* Experience with both Windows and Linux platforms
* Micro-Services & scalable, distributed software systems
* Enterprise Design Patterns
* Understanding of database
* Software Modelling (UML)
* Documentation skills (UML)
* Unit & integration testing JUnit , Mockito
* CI/CD (Jenkins / Maven / Nexus).
* Git, Bitbucket

Job Title: Java Software Developer
Location: Portsmouth
Pay Rate: £70 per hour Inside IR35

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.