Skills

Communication Java NoSQL MySQL PostgreSQL Problem-solving Architecture Programming AWS Software Development software testing Agile Springboot AWS Cloud Microservice Redis Terraform

Job Specifications

6 month contract, £500 a day, outside IR35.

A retail services company helping labels, artists, distributors and brands to run their direct to consumer operations. We work with labels and artists including Warp, Oasis, Dirty Hit, Ninja Tune, Partisan Records, Anjuna and many, many more. We are a creative company focused on providing our clients and their customers with the technology and the best possible service. As we expand and develop new services and products we want people in all areas of our businesses who are skilled and passionate about what they do and love music, technology, art and culture.

We are looking for an experienced back-end developer to join our cross-disciplinary

development team as we embark on an exciting new project.

As a member of the team, you will be a central part of the success of this programme,

contributing to key aspects of the technical build. You will also be collaborating closely and

directly with business and product leads to devise technical solutions related to the

development of API and Search components. Even as a temporary member of the team,

you will also have opportunities to contribute to our technical best practices and help move

the team forward.

Technical Requirements

Strong Java programming implementation skills.

Specific experience with BFF API development and API architecture patterns

(Desirable) Specific experience with Search related infra and configuration

Solid understanding of software design patterns with a focus on resilience.

Experience with serverless implementation.

Agile software development.

Relational database systems (normalisation, implementation and querying).

Software testing best practices (unit and integration testing).

Previous experience with AWS cloud services

Extensive experience designing and developing microservice architectures.

Ability to quickly acquire technical skills and to work with new technologies.

Stack experience requirements

Java

SpringBoot

MySQL

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Redis

Terraform

Packer

Elasticsearch

Containerization

AWS cloud services -

RDS

SQS

EC2

Lambda

Professional Skills / Requirements

Excellent communication skills and experience working in a cross-disciplinary team.

Ability to ‘translate’ technical matters to non-tech team members.

Self-starting, able to manage own schedule, and a proactive communicator.

Experience in a scale-up (or similar environment within a larger business) a big plus.

Ability to ‘own’ and drive work forward with the support of business leads.

Experience in devising detailed technical solutions from business and product

requirements, and comfortable finding ‘best fit’ solutions according to working

constraints.

Ability to work through and resolve ambiguities in scope and technical solutions;

comfortable with seeking out advice and information to facilitate problem-solving.

About the Company

Specialist digital recruitment consultancy with over 20 years of experience in hiring digital teams, across the UK. Zebra People partner with companies to embark on digital transformation in start-up and scale-up businesses. In 2019, we partnered up with leading UK executive search firm HW Global Talent Partner. The partnership has enabled us to offer clients an end-to-end talent solution, from appointing C-Suite Executives to the essential teams that sit underneath them. We offer clients a flexible recruitment solution from... Know more