Back End Developer in Chester

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Back-End Software Engineer in Chester to work for our client within the financial services sector.

As a Senior Back- End Software Engineer working with our clients cross- disciplinary feature team you will demonstrate and apply exemplary software engineering practices and skills, whilst working a collaborative and agile environment. You will help to transform, modernise and re-imagine the existing consumer services, adopting the latest technology and agile ways of working to deliver iterative value at pace. The Platform is moving to microservices in GCP which is part of a modernisation of the customer journey experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams delivering web-based applications and play a key role in modernisation from our internal private cloud to a microservices architecture on GCP.
• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for how we integrate with back-end applications.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers, lead a team of engineers providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst creating opportunities for learning and growth
• Ensure applications are fast, secure, and work across all manner of devices and platforms.
• Integrate third party APIs to our products and services.
• Transform our legacy estate to the multi cloud platform.
• Build responsive web pages using frameworks/tools such as Java, Spring boot and Web Frameworks.

What you'll need:

• Understanding of the full web application stack, deep and broad knowledge, with focus on Back-end API skill set.
• Significant exposure to modern web technologies, especially; Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Web frameworks, JSP, JSF and microservices.
• Code using Java backend technologies
• Leadership experience of Engineering teams through line management, coaching & mentoring of developers
• Strong understanding of source code repositories and tools such as Git, UCD and JIRA and be able to assist the team with technical issues.
• Familiar with working in an agile enterprise environment with automated build/test/release processes, source code management (Git) and change-management (JIRA)
• Using cloud platforms and technologies - specifically GCP.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs
• Cloud experience migrating legacy applications; Desired to OCP/GCP
• Creating and leading frameworks in a modular codebase and familiarity with Backend development.

Why join us?

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career.
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad.
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field.
• Annual leave of 25 days pro rata and work-place pension.

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.