Senior Java Software Developer

Job description / Role

What you'll do
The IT Development Authority provides expert knowledge, working in line with the technology roadmap and standards to develop applications / products.The IT Development Authority focusses upon development of programme logic for new applications / products or analysis and modification of logic in existing applications (activities may also include elements of technical testing). Typically reports to Senior IT Development Manager.

Responsibilities:-

Design:
- Participate in design of one or more modules.
- Implement the agreed requirement adhering to the design documents of the project

Investigation & Problem Solving:
- Participate in deciding and recommending the technologies and tools that best fit the business requirements.
- Research and investigate to find out proper solutions for technical problems.
- Ability to compare and assess technical solutions & and tools.
- Take personal ownership for issue resolution with no pointing finger attitude.

Reporting:
- On-time reporting and escalation of projects problems.
- Clear and accurate reporting.

Coaching & Technical guidance:
- Own one or more modules of the project(s) under development.
- Responsible for providing technical guidance and coaching for the junior's team members.
- Review the code of juniors' team members and recommend necessary rework.

Requirements

Quality:
- Implement the agreed requirement with high level of quality.
- Review code of junior's members with providing clear feedback.
- Minimal number of defects during QA & UAT process.

Investigation & Problem Solving:
- Analyze and resolve software errors accurately and on time.
- Take personal ownership for issue resolution with no pointing finger attitude.
- Provide technical guidance & support for junior team members.

Technical Estimate:
- Participate in the requirements estimation process.

Systems Support:
- Support production systems with taking care of implementing the required KPIs.
- Ability to investigate the root cause, recommend and implement proper technical solution within the agreed SLA.

Commitment, Flexibility & Dedication:
- Deliver tasks on time and within project plan with the agreed quality standards.
- Flexible to adapt with unplanned changes in timelines, business requirements, quality standard or any other activity that might threat the overall project delivery.
- Co-operate with other team members to achieve project targets.
- High dedication with putting the business first and ability to set the right priority for the benefit of our business.

Innovation
- Suggest and implement new ideas and software improvements.
- Assess juniors team members' ideas and provide constructive feedback and guidelines.

Requirement: -
- 3-8 years working experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science and/or engineering or equivalent.

Technical skills:

V ery good knowledge of:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Design patterns (Basic GoF)
- Microservices architecture
- SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
- SOLID principals
- Threading
- Collections
- Unit testing
- Relational Database Basic concepts
- No SQL Database
- Mongo DB
- Spring boot
- AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming
- Spring security
- Spring cloud
- Spring data
- Maven
- Git and branching strategies
- Docker containers is a plus
- Familiarity with any JavaScript framework is a plus

General Skills:
- Fast learning curve with minimal coaching and guidelines.
- Can work in a team or independent.
- Steadiness under pressure.
- Good communication skills.
- Communicate in a clear and simple way.
- Learn from mistakes and share lessons learned from previous projects.
- Good listener, listen and ask questions to understand the business needs.
- Ability to work efficiently under pressure with no compromise on quality of deliverables.
- Show a can-do attitude, and believe in challenging and developing ourselves.

What's in it for you

Together we can

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.