Senior Java Web Developer recruitment

A Senior Java web Developer (Java, Agile, Spring 3.0, Spring MVC, JQuery) is required by this successful financial services company to join their development team and build a suite of Greenfield components.

Working on their flagship web platform this role involves developing front to back Java, working in a highly Agile environment and gathering requirements from end users. This team operates in a fairly flat structure, so all team members are seen as contributors and present design ideas. However, the successful Java Developer will operate in a senior role reporting into the Java Development Lead.

The tech stack is all Java and Spring 3.0 on the serverside, and Spring MVC on the front end (with some HTML and CSS) and JQuery for web searching, Hibernate for persistence and Oracle at the backend. Development takes place in a very Agile set up, making full use of pair programming and TDD, with teams of four developing for 4 months and then moving on to the next project.

The company are passionate about technology and strive to stay at the forefront of it. For example, they upgraded to Spring 3 as soon as it was released. They embrace the open source community and look for Java developers that are real techies, people who immerse themselves in technology.

This team work on a very high profile system within the company and as such they have a really high bar for the kind of candidate they hire. The team is a mix of real techies who are passionate about technology and code in their own time and take a real entrepreneurial approach to their system, so all team members have to learn the business and work closely with the clients.

Key skills for Java web developer - financial services company