Senior Java Developer

EQ is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation and credit technology. With over 5,000 employees, it supports 37 Million people in 120 countries. EQ’s purpose is to care for every customer and simplify every transaction, deliveredwith less of an impact on the environment.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base.

**Role Summary**

The Senior Java Developer is a technical leadership role within the Scrum Team. Senior Developers are experienced in creating enterprise-level software using the Scrum method and are highly proficient in the team’s standard development practices, tools andprocesses.

Senior Developers lead by example with an engaging open style and energy that people trust and believe in. They are passionate about technology, as well as the on-going continuous improvement of the product, Agile development practices, and delivering robust,quality solutions. Seniors Developers are innovative, keep their skills current and are keen to explore how advances in technology might improve our delivery capability.

Collaborative & articulate, Senior Developers not only work effectively in and around Scrum Teams, they use, share and develop their experience and technical knowledge to solve complex problems. Seniors improve the other Developers within the team throughcoaching, pairing and mentoring. They often lead team members in understanding all sides of a problem and in working through to solutions in a fast-paced delivery environment.

Adhering to and implementing intended architecture, and contributing to technical strategy, Seniors are expected to create and share emergent architecture in a continuous feedback loop of delivery and communication.

**Business Function**

Equiniti PMS is an established software provider that creates content within an Agile working environment and are looking for new colleagues to help us continue our journey.

**Core Duties/Responsibilities**

To Your Scrum Team:

- Be fully immersed in the Scrum process and your team. Fully participate in story refinement, sprint planning, Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Mentor, coach and teach other team members to enable the overall team to improve.
- Lead investigations or spikes as prioritised by the Product Owner.
- Develop high quality software with the team that meets the definition of done and be looking for ways to improve our development capabilities and improve the definition of done.
- Encourage and lead the use of peer reviews and pair programming within the team.
- Both receive and provide feedback to other team members.

To the Product:

- Lead the design, development and testing of high quality software, which adheres to static analysis measures, passes gated builds, peer reviews / pairing and includes a minimum 85% unit test coverage.
- Continuous attention to lean principles, such as limiting WIP, and reducing cycle time and waste.
- Produce requisite documentation (wiki-based).
- Provide technical support and resolve production issues.
- Contribute to the Architecture Forum by identifying areas of architectural improvement, and raise & act upon them.

To Yourself:

- Be continually developing yourself and your career.
- Drive and contribute to the Hive communities of practice initiative.

**Skills, Capabilities and Attributes**
- Deliver working software to the definition of done every sprint to the best of your ability by leading the technical effort and collaborating with your team.
- Java - Strong knowledge of fundamentals of Java and design patterns.
- SQL - proficient in normalised database design and PL/SQL implementation.
- C - Some knowledge of the C programming language and syntax.
- Web - knowledge of common web development technologies (HTML / CSS) and experience of working with at least one CMS product.
- Testing - experience of TDD unit testing and knowledge of BDD.
- Develop software for the Product you are working on regardless of the technology platform or language. This is predominantly Java.
- Provide estimates in collaboration with your team in T-shirt sizes or story points.
- Provide expertise, thought leadership and continuous improvement of our pipeline tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, IntelliJ, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonarqube, and any other tools that form part of the development pipeline both now and in the future.
- Lead the adoption of, and coach others in, the use of Behaviour Driven Development and Selenium/Cucumber test frameworks.
- Teach Junior team members in unit testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), code reviewing and pairing, and refactoring.

**EQ Benefits**

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

- 28 days + 8 bank holidays. Option to buy more days through salary sacrifice.
- A cash payment annually towards flexible benefits, e.g. dental insurance, gym membership, the above extra holiday etc.
- 4 x Life Assurance.
- Company sick pay (2 months full pay, 2 months half, following probation).
- Matched pension scheme (e.g. you pay in 6%, EQ pay in 6%), up to 10% each side (20% in total).
- Discounts with major retailers (EQ Wins).
- Maternity or adoption leave of 3 months full pay, with return to work bonus / 2 weeks paid paternity leave.