Java and J2EE Developer Junior

Job Description

Job Title: Java/JEE Developer (Junior)

Location: Kildare, W23 X3PH

• Candidates must be willing to work from this location.
• Blended offsite/onsite working arrangement.

Contract Duration: 12 months with further extensions 

Attendance Pattern:

• Working within the island of Ireland is mandatory.
• Minimum attendance of two days per week at the office.
• Full-time, Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day (excluding breaks), between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
• Excludes public holidays observed in the Republic of Ireland.

Mandatory Requirements (Pass/Fail)

• Experience Level: The candidate must have more than 1+ years of relevant Java/JEE Development experience at a junior level.
• Availability: The candidate must be available to commence work from 3rd November 2025.
• English Language Proficiency: The candidate must be fluent in both spoken and written English. 

Key Deliverable: 

The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.

• Programming of Java components, with experience using industry-standard frameworks, e.g. Quarkus/Spring Boot. 
• Coding in adherence to the standards of the application in question. 
• Completing assigned tasks related to phases of development lifecycle of enterprise applications within given scope and timeframes requirements. 
• Maintaining, tuning and repairing applications to keep them performing according to technical and functional specifications. 
• Performing preventive maintenance activities
• Providing user support. 
• Microservice and API development (RESTful, experience of REST design and implementation). 
• Understanding API security protocols (OAuth 2.0/0penID Connect). 
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, API managers and WebLogic. 
• Experience with OpenShift Container platform, 3scale API and KeyCloak. 
• Testing frameworks and TDD (like Cucumber or Junit). 
• Databases: Relational (Oracle). 
• Integration of technical and application. components to meet business requirements. 

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets: 

The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

• Developers must be able to work on every stage of the software development life cycle from concept to design testing.  
• A demonstrated exposure to some or all the following technologies: 
• Spring, JavaScript, Angular2+, Quarkus.
• HTML, XML, CSS or equivalent. 
• Developing web services. 
• Toolset/Other Experience
• OpenShift 4 and Docker containers 
• 3Scale 
• KeyCloak
• Spring JDBC 
• Maven 
• Gitlab 
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• ArtiFactory
• Jira 
• Confluence
• Encryption

Integration with external applications (3rd party software)