Technical Architect (offline)

Project:
E-commerce platform for one of the largest building merchants in the UK. Our client is taking on the complete redevelopment of the existing legacy platform with the focus on UX and Responsive Web Design, and the Microservice Platform. It is aiming to remove vendor locking and fully leverage on the latest Open Source technical stack delivering eCommerce platform of the future.
The focus is on user journey, offer personalization, search, customer data mining, smart ads and headless CMS allowing Business to efficiently manage day to day trading activities, promotions and sales.

There will be two parallel streams of work, the first is with the focus on website Front End experience and the second, building a platform allowing a gradual migration of backend towards Microservices Ecosystem based on Kafka Streams and KSQL.

Required:

- 7 years of experience in the industry of software development
- At least 5 years of experience as a software developer on web projects
- Professional experience with Java, last period of experience with Java 8
- Good Knowledge and practical experience of Spring IoC (Core/Beans/Context)
- Good knowledge REST/SOAP services (e.g. JAX-RS or JAX-WS)
- JUnit
- Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security
- Knowledge of modern front-end technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines

Optional:
- Previous development of back end architecture
- Previous Tech Lead experience
- Apache Kafka & Kafka Streams
- RxJava
- Graphql
- React/Redux


We offer:
- Medical insurance
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skill
- 40 hours/week flexible working schedule
- Friendly and supportive company environment



Responsibilities:
- Recommend changes on project design concepts to improve efficiency
- Develop design specifications and other system-related information
- Verify stability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability of Java system architecture
- Select app design solutions and ensure the compatibility of system components working with software engineers
- Provide technical guidance and support development of systems
- Identify system data, hardware and software components required to meet user needs
- Convey architectural solutions to all levels of professionals and leader
- Ensure compliance with established architecture, design patterns, policies, standards, and best practices
- Design, develop, implement and maintain a series of programs, subsystems, revision and enhancement of the current system