Java Engineer

Location

Gloucester, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:  Permanent

Location:  Gloucester (hybrid)

Job ref: 202382

About the role

Are you a Java Developer looking for a new challenge? Do you understand the Scrum Framework? Are you someone that understands the delivery lifecycle?

If yes, Benefact Group  are looking for a  Java Developer to join our team in Gloucester , with hybrid working between home and office to suit your routine.

This is a key role in our journey to build technologies across our Bespoke Platform and across the business, and you will be working within our Continuous Improvement Team and at Programme level, using the Scrum Framework.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, support and maintain our main Specialist General Insurance Platform
• Working with Platform Architect, System Analysts and Product Owners to produce systems designs and specifications
• Participate in continuous improvement reviews through Sprint retrospectives. Identify and lead opportunities to improve current methods, practices and processes
• Working in collaboration with the wider systems development and system test teams to ensure successful completion and deployment of changes
• Work in the Scrum Framework, and proactively seek new ways of working

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience of developing enterprise scale Java applications (Java 11+)
• Ability to write Automated tests
• Understanding of relational databases
• Knowledge of JavaScript Frameworks
• Experience with Git, Git Flow and BitBucket Version Control
• Knowledge of working with Jenkins pipelines
• The ability to engage and co-operate in productive working relationships
• Understanding of software design and software architecture principles

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
  
• Flexible working
  
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
  
• Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.  

Winner of the SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards ‘Large Business’ of the Year 2023

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