Lead Software Engineer

March 28

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Aker Systems

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Aker Systems is a data infrastructure company that specializes in modernizing cloud data environments to empower enterprises with real-time data capabilities. Their mission is to enable secure, seamless, and enterprise-scale data flow in the public cloud, supporting organizations in becoming data-driven. Aker Systems is recognized for its contributions to innovation and has recently received accolades for its workplace culture and leadership in data management.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Venture Round on 2020-07

📋 Description

• A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role • If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years • As a Software Engineer, you will help lead the development of backend services for a government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies • This involves designing, developing, documenting and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability • Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to our backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements • Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories • Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum • Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them • Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines • Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science or a related field • An equivalent of at least 5 years of working experience in a developer capacity • JAVA programming experience as the core language, including Spring Boot • Fluent in writing JAVA coding • Experience with Kafka or a similar platform • Experience with Scala and Spark • Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3 • Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews • Working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams • Using GitHub/GitLab for source control • Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks • Experience in Big Data technologies • Experience in Public Cloud services, such as AWS

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) • Company Paid Medical Insurance • Life Assurance (4x times basic salary) • Pension scheme • Perks at Work • Cycle Scheme • Tech Scheme • Season Ticket Loan • List of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover and Virtual GP