Junior Java Developer

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Job Description

Your Role: Junior Java Developer

The Commercial Technology team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business.

In this role, you will work closely with a suite of microservices developed using Java 17+ (mostly Java 21) and Spring Boot, of which some will be event-driven. You will contribute towards the technical lifecycle of these services, including the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/ Terraform), running the services in Kubernetes (EKS on AWS), and monitoring/alerting in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana).   You will also use persistence technologies like Mongo Db, Maria Db and OpenSearch.

As a Junior Developer you will be introduced to these technologies and encouraged to use them with a mixture of on the job training, self study and external courses. We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment!

As a Junior Java Developer at Global, You will:

Key Responsibilities

• Key responsibility (50%): Developing features for the business and building on the platform architecture to support future features on the roadmap.

• Key responsibility (50%): Collaborating with the development team: You will work closely with other developers and product owners to understand project requirements, discuss implementation approaches, and ensure smooth integration of various software components.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think big – Strive to do what hasn’t been done before

Learn – With the help of the team you will learn and grow

Own it – Take pride in what you do and do it well

Keep it simple – Keep it simple to get stuff done

Better together – We’re team players

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Contributed towards the delivery of several features which provide business value.

• Contributed towards several code reviews, providing feedback and actioning feedback from others.

• Gained a proven understanding of the business context and how it relates to the team's deliverables.

• Gained a basic understanding of the team’s system architecture.

• Gained a basic understanding of our technologies and how to use them

What You’ll Need

• Java Experience: in Java 17/21, This is our principal language and while we will train you in ancillary skills you do need to be able to write basic software in Java.

• Awareness of: We use Spring Boot, RDBMS and noSQL persistence technologies. We do not expect you to be able to use these technologies you should be able to tell us what they are.

• Awareness of:  We use publish-subscribe technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or SNS/SQS. We do not expect you to be able to use these technologies you should be able to tell us what they are.

• Awareness of: Experience in writing well-tested code.  We expect you to have written some tests in the past.

• Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team