The Vacancy

As a business, Hermes is driven by our four values of; Do the right thing, Dare to be different, Strive for more and Be customer obsessed.  It’s because of these values that we are the UK’s leading consumer delivery service handling over 630 million parcels per year and still growing and our IT team help to drive that growth.

Hermes has undergone a significant transformation moving from a parcel-centric business to a customer-focused business.  There continues to be significant investment into IT realising Hermes’ vision of being a digital business with data being a significant enabler for the Hermes Business Strategy.

As a result of our continued growth, the Hermes Engineering & Assurance team have a brand new role for a Senior Back End Developer. 

Overview: 

The Senior Back End Developer is responsible for designing and implementing high-quality software in line with established policies and technology stack

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Maintaining documentation, ensuring that the knowledge acquired is available across the organisation and built into the squads as a discipline
• Supporting the architecture function in designing performant and resilient products
• Develop performant, efficient and reliable applications
• Assists in the evaluation of options and trade-offs for implementing requirements.
• Design, code, verify, tests, document, amend and refactor complex software.
• Participate in estimation and planning work with an adaptive (iterative/agile) approach.
• Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate to validate quality
• Staying up to date with the latest tech innovations and evaluate their value

You will be accountable for:            

• Developing fast, scalable, reliable, and efficient apps
• Making sure engineering policies and selected tools are adhered to
• Making sure agreed test coverage is implemented and daily progress communicated
• Keeping code repositories and Version Control up to date
• Supporting junior members of the team

Technical & People Skills:

• Java 8+
• Spring Boot
• REST API (JSON) & WebSockets
• Agile, Scrum, BDD, TDD, Pull Request, CI/CD
• Good working knowledge of unit testing & integration testing frameworks
• Excellent communication skills (oral/written)
• Collaborative and keen to share knowledge with others

Knowledge & Experience:

• 4+ years experience building commercial applications in Java
• Experience with Java and Spring boot is a must
• Experience in using Object Orientated design patterns in building software solutions
• Experience with AWS services like Fargate
• Experience working with an agile framework (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience using DevOps principles and automation practices
• RDBMS experience
• Significant Commercial Experience of developing distributed systems using a messaging-based architecture (ideally RabbitMQ or SQS)

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Agile certifications are desirable