PRINCIPAL JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Curious about a position with People First? Then you’ve come to the right place.

Part of MHR, People First has the tenacity of a start up but with the backing of an established and rapidly growing UK family-owned business.

Our People First HR platform was created to revolutionise how people work. Our mission is to boost employee engagement and productivity. People First is a SaaS product using RESTful microservice APIs that are hosted in Docker containers. Your work will be deployed onto an Azure Cloud in the UK, US and Asia.

We’re looking for people who are future-focused who have plenty of fresh ideas and who are not afraid to make bold decisions to help us with our mission of fixing work.

Want to be part of something incredible? Welcome to the Future of Work.

Key Skills:

• Have strong knowledge of Java, JSE8+, JEE, SQL and Git.
• Have knowledge of Hibernate/JPA, REST, Jackson, Mockito and CDI
• Have knowledge of software engineering principals including DDD, design patterns and SOLID.
• Be familiar with open source projects.
• Be comfortable tackling new problems and taking the initiative to create innovative solutions.
• Have experience of working in cross discipline Agile teams.

Role Responsibilities:

• To provide high quality, innovative and effective software solutions and support service to the business. Specifically, to take responsibly for producing POCs and providing up front technical input to the feature teams.
• Provide formal and qualified estimated of development effort.
• Use specific design, analysis and language capabilities to provide required functionality in accordance with agreed timescales and to the prevailing standards.
• Contribute/ lead requirement and design reviews.
• Produce and execute product test plans to assure the quality of your own work prior to independent testing.
• Facilitate and fulfil tasks as a member of an agile team, using agile practices (e.g. peer reviews, test Driven Development and daily stand-up meetings).
• Where requested, lead product development exercises preparing plans, monitoring and report on progress.
• Provide input on non functional requirements including security and performance.
• Lead efforts to improve the technical knowledge of the Java team for mentoring and guild meetings.
• Review code delivered by other developers.
• Provide guidance to other developers on the implementation and impact of new features, in line with coding standards and system architecture.
• Work with Architects to make sure the teams have technical support at feasibility. Foundation, refinement and timebox planning meetings

How We Work:

• Azure DevOps is used to manage backlogs, builds and releases.
• Core hours are used to minimise interruptions to developers.
• Our products are shipped at least every two weeks.
• We sponsor tech events such as Tech Nottingham and Hack24.

Your Development:

• You will be actively encouraged to grow your skills by pursing self-learning or attending conferences such as JAX London.
• You can either broaden your knowledge by learning new Java technologies, or by branching out into other areas like Angular, DevOps or Azure.
• All developers will have a mentor who will regularly recommend practical objectives.
• We will actively work with you to help you grow.
• You will be surrounded by experienced developers.

Our Rewards:

• Competitive salaries.
• We contribute to a full company pension scheme.
• We offer life assurance (x4 salary, with option to increase up to x8 salary).
• An employee assistance programme is included.
• Our sites all come with a subsidised restaurant and cafe on-site, with delicious new meals on offer from our chefs each day.
• We offer Vodafone discounts, making it cheaper and easier to catch up with your favourite people.
• Personal development plays a big part in helping our people to reach their potential, this is why we offer over 60 internal training courses and support our people with external qualifications.

Why us?:

• What makes MHR a great place to work, isn’t novelties or gimmicky job titles, it’s our down to earth approach working with other people who want to do a job they’re proud of.
• We give you time to develop in your role and as a person, so you start to do creative work that only you can do, rather than trying to work through other people’s methods, that don’t suit your working style.
• We’re flexible, we embrace change and as we’re still owned by the original founders, so we’re incredibly proud of what we we’ve built from a small business into one of the biggest and best in the industry.

Be part of something better, become part of the MHR family.

Apply here!

PRINCIPAL JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Curious about a position with People First? Then you’ve come to the right place.

Part of MHR, People First has the tenacity of a start up but with the backing of an established and rapidly growing UK family-owned business.

Our People First HR platform was created to revolutionise how people work. Our mission is to boost employee engagement and productivity. People First is a SaaS product using RESTful microservice APIs that are hosted in Docker containers. Your work will be deployed onto an Azure Cloud in the UK, US and Asia.

We’re looking for people who are future-focused who have plenty of fresh ideas and who are not afraid to make bold decisions to help us with our mission of fixing work.

Want to be part of something incredible? Welcome to the Future of Work.

Key Skills:

• Have strong knowledge of Java, JSE8+, JEE, SQL and Git.
• Have knowledge of Hibernate/JPA, REST, Jackson, Mockito and CDI
• Have knowledge of software engineering principals including DDD, design patterns and SOLID.
• Be familiar with open source projects.
• Be comfortable tackling new problems and taking the initiative to create innovative solutions.
• Have experience of working in cross discipline Agile teams.

Role Responsibilities:

• To provide high quality, innovative and effective software solutions and support service to the business. Specifically, to take responsibly for producing POCs and providing up front technical input to the feature teams.
• Provide formal and qualified estimated of development effort.
• Use specific design, analysis and language capabilities to provide required functionality in accordance with agreed timescales and to the prevailing standards.
• Contribute/ lead requirement and design reviews.
• Produce and execute product test plans to assure the quality of your own work prior to independent testing.
• Facilitate and fulfil tasks as a member of an agile team, using agile practices (e.g. peer reviews, test Driven Development and daily stand-up meetings).
• Where requested, lead product development exercises preparing plans, monitoring and report on progress.
• Provide input on non functional requirements including security and performance.
• Lead efforts to improve the technical knowledge of the Java team for mentoring and guild meetings.
• Review code delivered by other developers.
• Provide guidance to other developers on the implementation and impact of new features, in line with coding standards and system architecture.
• Work with Architects to make sure the teams have technical support at feasibility. Foundation, refinement and timebox planning meetings

How We Work:

• Azure DevOps is used to manage backlogs, builds and releases.
• Core hours are used to minimise interruptions to developers.
• Our products are shipped at least every two weeks.
• We sponsor tech events such as Tech Nottingham and Hack24.

Your Development:

• You will be actively encouraged to grow your skills by pursing self-learning or attending conferences such as JAX London.
• You can either broaden your knowledge by learning new Java technologies, or by branching out into other areas like Angular, DevOps or Azure.
• All developers will have a mentor who will regularly recommend practical objectives.
• We will actively work with you to help you grow.
• You will be surrounded by experienced developers.

Our Rewards:

• Competitive salaries.
• We contribute to a full company pension scheme.
• We offer life assurance (x4 salary, with option to increase up to x8 salary).
• An employee assistance programme is included.
• Our sites all come with a subsidised restaurant and cafe on-site, with delicious new meals on offer from our chefs each day.
• We offer Vodafone discounts, making it cheaper and easier to catch up with your favourite people.
• Personal development plays a big part in helping our people to reach their potential, this is why we offer over 60 internal training courses and support our people with external qualifications.

Why us?:

• What makes MHR a great place to work, isn’t novelties or gimmicky job titles, it’s our down to earth approach working with other people who want to do a job they’re proud of.
• We give you time to develop in your role and as a person, so you start to do creative work that only you can do, rather than trying to work through other people’s methods, that don’t suit your working style.
• We’re flexible, we embrace change and as we’re still owned by the original founders, so we’re incredibly proud of what we we’ve built from a small business into one of the biggest and best in the industry.

Be part of something better, become part of the MHR family.

Apply here!

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

Java Team Lead - FinTech

Java Team Lead - A Berlin-based Challenger Bank is looking for a Java Team Lead to head up a newly formed team within the business as they look to scale their product and their codebase. Their disruptive product allows consumers to have a Bank on their Phone, and are emerging as one of the top global FinTechs with a presence across Europe and the USA.

You will have a team that will grow to the size of 8. In the role, you will oversee your team's personal development, code reviews, weekly 1 to 1s, and their yearly reviews. It will be a 50/50 split between management and Coding.

As a Java Team Lead you will be expected to have already:

• A depth of experience in leading a Java team.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to deal with complex managerial situations.
• Still be able to code hands-on with a Tech Stack of Java, AWS, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Have an eye for transferring the needs of the business into a coherent and effective technical strategy for your team.

This FinTech is a huge player in Berlin and will provide a full relocation package, learning money allowance, and personal training at all levels. It is a company with some of the biggest funding rounds Berlin has ever seen behind it, and they have the momentum and expertise to scale their product globally. With this, they want to become the leaders in the Challenger Bank sector. If you want to continue to develop your Soft skills in a tech role with lots of responsibility, then get in touch!

Java Team Lead - FinTech

Java Team Lead - A Berlin-based Challenger Bank is looking for a Java Team Lead to head up a newly formed team within the business as they look to scale their product and their codebase. Their disruptive product allows consumers to have a Bank on their Phone, and are emerging as one of the top global FinTechs with a presence across Europe and the USA.

You will have a team that will grow to the size of 8. In the role, you will oversee your team's personal development, code reviews, weekly 1 to 1s, and their yearly reviews. It will be a 50/50 split between management and Coding.

As a Java Team Lead you will be expected to have already:

• A depth of experience in leading a Java team.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to deal with complex managerial situations.
• Still be able to code hands-on with a Tech Stack of Java, AWS, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Have an eye for transferring the needs of the business into a coherent and effective technical strategy for your team.

This FinTech is a huge player in Berlin and will provide a full relocation package, learning money allowance, and personal training at all levels. It is a company with some of the biggest funding rounds Berlin has ever seen behind it, and they have the momentum and expertise to scale their product globally. With this, they want to become the leaders in the Challenger Bank sector. If you want to continue to develop your Soft skills in a tech role with lots of responsibility, then get in touch!