Job Title: Java AWS Developer
Location: Knutsford/hybrid
Salary/Rate: Up to £459 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 07/07/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Java AWS Developer to join their team for a three-month contract.

Candidates will be required to complete a HackerEarth coding assessment to evaluate their technical skills and problem-solving abilities.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

1. Gathering requirements from the business analyst team.
2. Analyse any new technical requirements within the development team.
3. Develop and unit test the application using Java/Java 8, REST, python, junit, cucumber etc.
4. Exposure to AI.
5. Experienced in Github Jenkins, pipeline, agile, SDLC, design methodology, API,TDD
6. Writing SQL,DB procedures, performance optimization of the queries and stored procedures.
7. Sprint planning and attending retrospective call, daily stand-up call for the agile scrum process.
8. Review the JIRA and acceptance criteria for any task planned. For the sprint with the team.
9. Discussion with QA team for any qa/UAT release and discuss the test plans
10. Follow the release management process and plan for any production turnover.
11. Providing support for critical production issue.
12. Keeping the technical document and the project artefacts up to date.
13. Planning and executing the migration of old applications to the new platform.
14. Review and optimize the performance of the application on Java and database side.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

1. Strong programming and analytical skills using Core Java
2. Experience developing Micro services Architecture using Spring Boot
3. Proficient with Restful API dev, Java 8 features & Kafka
4. Working experience with git/github/gitlab
5. Enthusiastic and willing to learn new technologies
6. Good communication skill.
7. Positive Attitude with good commitment levels
8. ReactJS knowledge is preferred

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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