Napier

Back-End Engineer, Java

Napier

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Belfast • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

ApacheAWSAzureCloudDockerElasticSearchETLGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPostgresPrometheusSQL

About the role

  • Direct development responsibility for developing, debugging, and unit testing product features in accordance with internal procedures and standards
  • Diagnosing and solving functional and performance/scalability issues as required
  • Helping to improve technical practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes

Requirements

  • Hands-on programming experience – Java
  • Technologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub
  • Experience with Azure and AWS or GCP, and data processing in cloud environments
  • Database and SQL development experience, especially PostgreSQL
  • Collaborative team player with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery models
  • Programming Languages – Kotlin, Go
  • Analytics engines, especially ElasticSearch
  • KeyCloak
  • ETL tools
  • Performance engineering principles and tools
  • CI/CD and DevOps tooling
  • Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially Grafana and Prometheus
Benefits
  • - Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
  • - 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays, your birthday and a wellness day
  • - Dedicated pension plan through Aviva
  • - Life Insurance 4x your annual salary
  • - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
  • - Income protections policy
  • - Work from anywhere for up to 1 month
  • - Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
  • - Gym membership discounts.
  • - Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work-life balance.
  • - This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in-office – depending on your preference.
  • - An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you.
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaKotlinGoSQLPostgreSQLApache KafkaKubernetesDockerETL toolsperformance engineering
Soft Skills
collaborative team playerstrong written communicationstrong verbal communication