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Senior Software Engineer

Our client is looking to hire a talented Senior Java/C++ Developer to join their Features Team based in their Reading office.

The company is passionate about delivering innovative and quality solutions to real customer problems. They work with a wide range of customers including some of the world’s largest government departments, large defence organisations and well known financial and legal organisations.

They strive to hire positive and energetic people who want to make a difference to their products. They promote autonomy and ownership to enable people and teams to make their own collaborative decisions and to choose the best way to tackle challenges. They also encourage an environment of continuous improvement in practices and self-development.

The company is a Java house, with C++ being the second most used language. They also use Python, C# and Ruby for smaller projects and Subversion and GitHub (with less of the former and more of the latter every day). They use Swagger/OpenAPI to define our RESTful API’s and implement them using Spring Boot. They build and deploy using Gradle, Jenkins and Nexus. Static analysis is done using SonarQube and Coverty, Unit Testing is covered with JUnit and Mockito. They test them BDD style using Cucumber.

Their UI is created in JSP, with some GWT, but we are currently evaluating a move to using Angular, React or Vue and the products are built on RedHat Enterprise Linux.

They have a strategy aimed at optimising the variety of technologies that we use, maximising the use of open source solutions such as Postfix, PostgreSQL, Apache Traffic Server and ActiveMQ, while actively contributing back to the community.

How the company works:

They use Scrum and Kanban, with a few techniques borrowed from Less. This allows them to create flexibility and variety of work for everyone on the team. Their sprints last two weeks and finish with a demo or mini talk about what they achieved. They constantly optimise their processes to enable the team to focus on what they do best – solving real customer problems using code.

Every member of the team is given, and proactively encouraged to use, ten innovation days per year to learn about, or work on, anything they want that is related to their career. Their team use these days to achieve a wide range of things, from fixing bugs in product and development environments, learning new skills and technologies or coming up with truly innovative ideas and prototypes that later become part of the products.

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