GCS

GCS

Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber

Java Developer

Full-Time£25,000 - 50,000 per yearсегодняUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £25,000 - 50,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong Java development experience, with modern Java 11+
  • Experience designing and building microservices architectural style applications
  • Experience with graph databases; Neo4j experience is desirable
  • Experience modernising legacy Java applications
  • Experience with the design and build of REST APIs
  • Experience building HTML/JavaScript front ends; Angular experience is desirable
  • Strong technical and analytical troubleshooting skills
  • Experience in BDD and/or TDD approaches and frameworks, including unit/integration test automation
  • Experience resolving dependency issues, performing upgrades, and remediating vulnerable dependencies
  • Experience working in Agile environments, including Jira and Confluence
  • A proactive approach and the ability to take initiative without waiting to be told what to do next
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Strong English skills, written and spoken
Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with developers, testers, and the wider organisation to build and run products
  • Design, develop, and implement back-end features based on backlog and priority, with a small element of front-end development
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to design and launch new features
  • Proactively work with customers to resolve issues and respond to feature requests
  • Build APIs and microservices
  • Work in an agile CI/CD environment to deliver rapid iterations at a sustained velocity
  • Participate in peer reviews and support testing of other code through automated test scripting
Technologies:
  • Angular
  • CI/CD
  • Confluence
  • Support
  • JIRA
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Neo4J
  • REST
  • TDD
  • microservices
  • API
  • Copilot
  • Cucumber
  • GitHub
  • HTML5
  • JUnit
  • Maven
  • PostgreSQL

More:

We are building a Developer Experience (DevX) Standards and Controls platform for control owners and development teams to manage and view compliance with a range of software development controls. We are re-platforming an application from a vendor platform (PCF) to an internal bring your own code (BYOC) platform, while also modernising the application and resolving dependency issues.

last updated 39 week of 2026

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About GCS

GCS

GCS

Sheffield

IT

Skills & Technologies

JavaScriptJavaGoAngularGitCI/CDPostgreSQLRESTAIAgileUIHTML

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£37,500

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£55,000

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