Tribal is a Total Experience agency. Thinking beyond the established customer experience, we work with brands to consider the total experience online, offline, & internal engagement & processes & create products, services, & comms that people love. 

Exploring the intersection between brands, technology, & real life, we develop ideas that connect with culture & uncover compelling ways that technology can add value to real peoples lives while delivering returns to our clients. 

The Senior Developer is the development go-to person for any team. Your expertise will be sought in requirement assessments, technical implementation planning & development best practices. You have a solution mindset, who can estimates tasks & strives to complete projects on time. In this position, the Senior Developer will collaborate with the Tech Leads, Architects & Directors to design, develop, & deliver applications with correctly applied patterns & system architecture. The Developer will be responsible to ensure the successful involvement of Quality Assurance & DevOps team members in order to deliver a high quality, maintainable code base into the clients production environments.

This is a 'hands-on' position that requires collaboration in design, & code leadership in development, as well as the ability to mentor the team in Java/ J2EE technologies, support in tool use, & development process improvement.

You Will:

• Be responsible for various aspects of designing, developing, & maintaining the server-side of web applications & APIs utilising Java / Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Developers, Tech Leads, Technical Architects & Project Managers to design scalable & efficient backend architectures.
• Evaluate & select appropriate technologies, frameworks, & tools for backend development based on the project requirements.
• Review code written by other developers & provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality & adherence to best practices. Mentor & guide junior developers on coding standards & best practices.
• Identify & address performance bottlenecks in the backend code, databases, & infrastructure to improve application speed & efficiency.
• Implement security measures to protect data & ensure compliance with industry standards & best practices such as GDPR.
• Develop & execute unit tests, integration tests, & automated test scripts to ensure the reliability & stability of backend services. Participate in the deployment & monitoring of applications with the DevOps team.
• Design & optimise databases, write efficient complex queries, & ensure data integrity & consistency (SQL).
• Create & maintain APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for frontend clients, mobile apps, & external services.
• Create & maintain technical documentation for the applications, APIs, & infrastructure.
• Investigate & resolve issues & bugs reported by users or identified through testing & monitoring.
  
  

You Have:

• Technical Expertise as a Senior Backend Developer.
• Experience with Java 8/11,17+, Java Streams, Java Collections, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Groovy, SQL, Artifactory.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins & command line tools for helper tools development, use package managers (maven, pip), debugging & unit testing.
• Experience with version control such as Git & GitHub to manage codebase changes & collaborate effectively with other team members across global markets.
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools - Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.
• Knowledge of common development best practices (e.g., TDD, agile).
• Experience with modern CI/CD workflows.
• Multi-project commercial experience with relevant tools such as >Java11 (OpenJDK), Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins, NVM, RESTful APIs, ActiveMQ or similar.
• The ability to communicate effectively & proactively with team members, stakeholders, & clients to understand requirements & provide updates on project progress.
  
  

You May Have:

• Experience with AWS Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, SQS, REST, EKS, ActiveMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Maven, Jenkins, OSGi, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Experience working in an agency environment.
  
  

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, & we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration & team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

CM Liquid Talent is still an option for roles approved to be 100% remote.