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Java/Security Senior Developer

Employer
Legal & General
Location
Hove, East Sussex
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
31 May 2019

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Sector
Finance, Financial Services
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Java/Security Senior Developer

  • Reference: VN-10954
  • Role Type: Permanent
  • Location: Hove
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Closing Date: 31/05/2019

Company Info

  • Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

Department Info

  • From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.

    We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Job Duties

  • The Senior Web Developer will create new and unique web applications, with a focus on Java/JavaScript based architecture. Apart from developing enterprise solutions, you will also work on short and fast paced proof of concepts and demo projects, showing off the versatility and functionality of our product to internal stakeholders. In this role, you will be working with and mentoring other engineers/developers to create a range of innovative web products and solutions, balancing user needs against business goals and technology capabilities. Your extensive experience will provide knowledge to the development team across the range of tools and platforms that the team works with and you will be expected to lead in the development of the front end applications and web sites developing great user experiences across different browsers and devices.

    • Providing technical leadership across aspects of the technology stack and demonstrate strong problem solving skills
    • Utilising and championing agile technical practices; TDD, Continuous Integration/Delivery, pair programming, refactoring, emergent design
    • Introducing Open Source products and tools as appropriate to optimise the delivery timescale and quality of the software product
    • Applying expert knowledge in design workshops utilising emergent design and architectural principles and patterns to produce well-engineered solutions.
    • Participate and contribute to all agile ceremonies; planning, estimation, show & tells and retrospectives.
    • Work with analysts to interpret high level requirements for complex, large scale initiatives and decomposing them into independent stories for consumption by team member
    • Work in a collaborative, sharing, open, transparent way
    • Escalating complex challenges, issues and risks as well as proposed mitigating actions
    • Driving continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality products

Skills Required

  • Required Experience
  • Advantageous Experience
  • Customer Awareness
  • Business & Industry
  • Server side languages and architecture, ideally Java Spring
  • Security - OWASP top 10, Keycloak
  • Build tools – e.g. Maven
  • BDD/TDD testing tools - e.g. JUnit
  • Code quality - hinting/linting
  • Git - branching/merging/pull requests
  • Lean/Agile/Scrum
  • Design Patterns
  • Mobile first, responsive design, progressive enhancement
  • HTML5, appreciation of semantics
  • CSS - SASS/LESS/PostCSS
  • Javascript – single page applications e.g. ReactJs/AngularJS
  • WACG 2.0, WAI-ARIA techniques
  • Cloud based environments (AWS)
  • A supportive, communicative and collaborative approach to working in a team
  • An understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors and partners
  • An understanding of key organisational structures, frameworks and core processes
  • An understanding of digital/web development or product delivery

Benefits

  • Whatever your role, Legal & General rewards ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after things that matter to you.

    Our employees have a wide range of benefits including:

    Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

    • A generous pension scheme
    • Life assurance
    • 27 holiday days
    • Private medical insurance
    • Performance related bonuses
    • A variety of share schemes
    • Discounts on high street and our own great products

Company

At Legal & General, we are so much more than your typical finance business. Today we are a builder, insurer, investor, landlord and city regenerator. Tomorrow? Who knows? Whether you are into numbers, digital, data or people, we offer a wide range of opportunities that will take you on a journey that is anything but familiar.

What's the best thing about working at Legal & General? In addition to being part of a business that enables you to have impact and career progression, you get to actively drive change that matters. From addressing our climate crisis and supporting our ageing population to tackling our affordable housing shortage, you will be able to actively participate in driving societal change. At the same time you will be given the opportunity to grow and enjoy our excellent benefits offering while being part of a team of straightforward, collaborative and purposeful individuals that make your actions and ideas come to life in exciting and meaningful ways.

So take a closer look. Get involved. Be curious. You may be surprised!

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Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 375 524
Location
Pod 6, Ground Floor
The Droveway, City Park,
Hove
Sussex
BN3 7PY
GB

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