Associate Software developer (15 month FTC) Java or Groovy

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

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Job purpose summary

We're looking for a passionate associate software developer to join our Development Services team. We're an innovative technical team within Adaptavist which focuses on novel and robust business solutions as software that creates new value for clients in a variety of ecosystems such as Atlassian, monday.com, Gitlab and AWS.

What you'll be doing

People Collaboration

• Involvement in the support and guidance of junior team members
• Collaboration (Slack, email and Jira tickets) with all project team members, which include
• consultants, developers and project managers
• Work with the team to ensure our quality practices are adhered to

Engineering

• Designing, writing and testing solutions
• Complex, collaborative problem solving
• Performing code peer reviews
• Writing automated tests at unit, integration and functional levels and drive code quality within
• the team
• Troubleshooting builds and deployments
• Documentation of all technical designs
• Assisting with support escalation

Role-specific skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience in using Java with tools like Junit, Maven, Gradle and mockito to build and test developer tooling, libraries and cloud services is a must

• Experience using React, Webpack and JavaScript ES2015/16 to build and test applications.

• Testing frameworks in one or more of: Jest, Enzyme, Karma, Mocha, Sinon, Cypress, JPhantomJS or Jasmine

• Experience applying static typing in Javascript

• Experience working on a large codebase/API

• Creating Automation with Groovy Script / ScriptRunner

• Experience with HTML5, CSS and front-end best practices

• Experience in any one database storage technology and languages (e.g. SQL/RDBMS like Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB)

• Understanding of serverless and micro-services oriented architecture with extensible REST APIs and developing consuming these in Javascript or Java

• Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems

• Internal tools and consulting with Jira, Git, Gitlab

• Serverless/Microservice Architecture

• Secure cloud native applications deployed in AWS

• Experience with Atlassian products and APIs such as Jira (especially), Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

• Jira product/APIs

• Atlassian Connect & Forge Frameworks

Desirable

• Experience with NodeJS
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum
• Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience
• of public cloud offerings (AWS, AWS lambda, fargate, SNS / SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway
• and S3) and Docker containers
• Passion for the latest trends in application design and Interest in learning more about new
• languages and frameworks
• Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery and infrastructure as code