Principal Java Engineer, MOTORS & Cazoo

• A leader in Java engineering with several years of experience in designing and building solutions
• You have a proven record of successfully migrating business-critical applications from legacy infrastructure into a modern cloud environment
• Experience in the following technologies:
• Terraform
• Java 11+ development
• Spring Boot and Maven
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Junit
• Cloud experience, preferably Azure

Desirable

• We are embarking on significant business transformations including the modernisation of our legacy Azure-based technologies. We need a top-notch Principal Java Engineer to join our team to help guide the technology teams through this journey
• As Principal Java Engineer you’ll be a hands-on contributor supporting our cross-functional journey teams
• You’ll be relied on to independently develop and deliver strategies to deliver the modernisation of our automotive platform
• You’ll be focussing on extending and improving our high traffic platform, while mentoring engineers around you, as well as maintaining and advocating strong development standards
• In executing this mission, you will work closely with our engineers, architects, and product owners
• Reports to: Director of Technology, Gumtree
• Lead the refactoring of complex systems and resolution of complex problems, making pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt to align with our priorities as a business
• Lead the Java team and business in the migration from our VM-based Azure estate into a modern cloud-based scalable platform
• Ensure existing systems continue to be maintained at a high standard and managing short to medium-term improvements where required
• Lead the existing team and contribute towards delivering high quality code by improving coding standards and best practices, taking into account wider requirements such as performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security
• Proactively contribute to the wider engineering department, through knowledge sharing and architectural forums
• Lead good agile team outcomes ensuring engineering decisions are made which factor in technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability and business needs
• Represent the team in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services
• Deep dive into system and application performance and reliability issues; partner with software and systems engineers across the organisation