Associate Software Engineer

Associate Software Engineer Integration

Epsom & Barbican/Hybrid (1-2 days office based) Permanent / Full time

Competitive salary available depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health everything we give our patients members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion your warmth your drive to make a difference. Whether its driving connecting health helping the nation transforming experiences or building the career you want we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Associate Software Engineer to join our interoperability squad that is responsible for delivering and evolving our digital integration services and APIs. You will have experience in developing and maintaining micro services building and deploying resources in Cloud environments and achieving a high degree of automation through provisioning configuration management and CI/CD tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Java-based integration services APIs and microservices.

• Participate in the design and implementation of system integrations between internal applications and external partners.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver software solutions on time and meeting client requirements.

• Work with messaging systems (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ) and REST/SOAP APIs.

• Write clean maintainable and scalable code following best practices.

• Collaborate with QA team to ensure high-quality releases.

• Perform PROD deployments and improve CI/CD processes.

• Monitor debug and resolve integration-related issues on PROD and Test env.

• Assist in creating technical documentation including flow diagrams and data mappings.

• Participate in Agile/Scrum development cycles including daily stand-ups and sprint planning.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and methodologies.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Java and object-oriented programming concepts.

• Familiarity with Spring Framework particularly Spring Boot.

• Basic understanding of integration patterns APIs and web services (REST/SOAP).

• Good understanding of software development principles and methodologies.

• Knowledge of version control tools (e.g. Git).

• Exposure to relational databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL) and writing SQL queries.

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• A passion for code quality and write clean well-documented and efficient code following industry best practices. Participated in code reviews and provided constructive feedback to team members.

• Passion to learn new technologies and staying up to date with emerging trends in software development

• Basic knowledge of integration framework like Apache Camel is a plus.

• Understanding of messaging systems like Kafka ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ is a plus.

• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS Azure or GCP) is a plus.

• Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus.

We will provide:

• A collaborative working environment and the chance to be part of a community of engineers and architects; adding value to the whole through mentoring innovation ideation and collaborative development of technical standards.

• The opportunity to work on our business-critical integration layer - working with the team to build deploy and maintain robust and accessible interfaces that integrate third-party services and underpin our healthcare solutions.

• The chance to be responsible for ensuring that we deliver high quality software and operate our integration platform in line with product/business goals and delivery cycles using Agile methods and DevOps practices.

• An environment that practices DevOps and automation assisting in building and maintaining technical environments (production preview and test environments) CI/CD pipelines and tool sets. You will have the chance to automate the deployment of code and write tests to support continuous delivery and integration.

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that spans many customer-facing digital applications through to integrating with various Nuffield Health owned and third-party systems performance optimization security and scalability considerations.

• Opportunities to learn and develop your career while staying close to your engineering roots.

• An environment that allows you to perform at your best work working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focused on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples everyday lives

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

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