Your purpose in the role

Working within a talented team of technology experts, the Software Engineer role will be key in the development of the Insights Technology Platform, a highly scalable cloud (AWS) platform using the latest in Hyperscale technology.

Technology innovation in the Learning and Development industry is paramount, and through innovative solutions we aim to create a differentiator for our business that provides a legendary experience for our customers on every part of their journey with us.
 
As a Software Engineer at Insights you will be building services to support new functionality in our customer facing software technology stack. You will work in a highly collaborative Agile development environment and will leverage, promote and enhance our software frameworks, components and design patterns to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
 

What you’ll do to succeed (responsibilities)

• Design, code and support robust and scalable software solutions
• Ensure quality of solutions by conducting code and design reviews, writing unit tests and supporting the continuous integration and deployment environment.
• Deliver code on time and to specification
• Provide the appropriate level of documentation for solutions and be an evangelist in the team for the development knowledge base
• Perform third-line application support
• Be highly productive whilst balancing the need for quality and agility
• Work collaboratively with the team
• Assist in the selection of appropriate technologies for our applications
• Contribute towards the enhancements of our development processes and policies
• Understand our business and our customers

 

• You will take responsibilities for your tasks ensuring that you are diligently following through on them until they are satisfactorily addressed
• You’ll have a positive outlook and work ethic
• You will look to collaborate with you team and others in the business
• Problem solving will be high on your list of things to do and you will be tenacious in your drive to deliver on this
• You will be passionate about technology always looking for the next piece that will allow development of our solutions to be better
• You will have a desire to deliver solutions that please users

Requirements:
 

• Experienced in Java 8 (or later), Spring Framework(s) & Gradle or Maven
• Experience in developing and delivering RESTful APIs
• Experience working with databases & associated ORM technologies
• Very strong focus on automation through the entire engineering lifecycle (development, test & deployment)
• Strong technical viewpoint supported by the implementation of robust, scalable, and successful solutions
• Understand the use of the latest technologies to deliver cutting edge software

Other useful experience and skills:

• Familiarity with AWS & its managed services portfolio
• Experience with Docker
• Experience in writing Infrastructure as code (Terraform)