Java Engineer

As a Java Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions. Using Java (8+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate and Maven, you’ll own the design and development of large-scale, high performance services, including websites, apps, microservices and event driven architecture.

We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

• You’ll own the design and development of large-scale high performance services using Java (17+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot and Maven. This includes websites, apps, microservices and event driven architecture
• You’ll contribute to our product technical roadmap
• You’ll work with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• You’ll lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s Group capabilities
• Engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning
• You’ll consider the cost and service support implications of your engineering choices

• Possess strong programming language expertise in Java and Springboot
• Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering, architectural principles, unit testing, TDD
• Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware 
• Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers 
• Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies 
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles 
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech 
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver