The public sector client is looking to recruit 2 Digital Java Developers for a 6 month temporary contract based in Newcastle or any DfE site. The successful candidates will be office based for most of the contract, however, the client is flexible with remote working for part of the assignment, or until the restrictions ease.

Your immediate focus will be on taking over an existing Java code base which is a combination of web site, SOAP and RESTful services and scheduled data extract jobs.

We are looking for you to enhance and support the components in line with project goals and delivery cycles, while working openly and collaboratively in our team. Above all, you will want to make an impact, which may sometimes involve challenging current methods. This will be developing web products using both front-end web development languages and back-end technologies for internal and external use. There is an expected need to rewrite or reimplement some code elements in c# so developers with a knowledge of c# would be useful.

As a senior software developer, you will also coach and mentor other developers in new technology and processes such as agile development, software patterns and TDD/BDD. You will be part of our developer group which ensures that knowledge is shared across the department. You will have responsibility for ensuring that your work forms part of the client’s integrated approach to secure and responsible information handling.

The successful candidate will have a valid DBS or be willing to apply for one on CV submission or when a job offer has been made and accepted. This assignment sits inside IR35.

What you will bring: 
We are looking for developers who have experience taking on an existing code base and understanding and evolving it as needed.
You will be a team player and take ownership over the products features and services your team looks after and above all you will want to support our mission to transform the critical systems we build and maintain.
You have an agile mindset and are willing to pick up and learn other skills to help deliver the product.

You will be joining a growing software engineering community and you will be confident developing applications, passionate about making a difference and want to be involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, and prototyping to execution, and shipping whilst having experience with:

Supporting performant public facing SOAP and RESTful APIs using Java (preferably version 1.8)
Spring 3
Hibernate
Maven
Unit testing and TDD

-use standards and specifications to design, create, test and document new or existing software
-translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet user needs
-solve problems to improve performance using different sources of data to monitor and identify performance issues
-integrate and test systems and programme components
-enhance and support SOAP and REST API’s working alongside product owner and development team

Some experience of Spring batch desirable
Experience of c# desirable