Newton - Java Developer

Company Overview Newton Investment Management Limited is an active investment management firm, using thematic ideas about the long-term investment landscape to create and manage strategies that help secure clients' futures. Newton thinks on a global basis, with its single London-based investment team working collaboratively across asset classes and regions. The firm builds bold solutions, designed to meet the real-world challenges clients face, and the team manage them responsibly in the broadest sense - through embedding environmental, social and governance considerations, and engaging on issues that affect their clients. Those clients are based around the world, and include pension funds, corporations and charities and, via Newton's parent company BNY Mellon, individuals. What's on Offer? Newton is a professional, friendly and collegiate place to work offer a number of benefits like a 12% pension contribution, flexible working hours and opportunities to progress. The firm looks to attract individuals who are keen to work as part of a team, in a meritocratic environment, and who are driven to help make the organisation a great place to work. Newton employees are bright, inquisitive, thoughtful and collaborative. They are highly motivated to deliver performance and service to clients. Newton prides itself on being an employer of choice, with a commitment to diversity. Job Purpose: The role represents an exciting opportunity to join Newton's Engineering Group working in one of Newton's technical product teams. We are looking for highly talented engineers to be part of a scrum team delivering business and client focussed full stack solutions and designs. In this client facing role, you should be resourceful, energetic, and ready to hit the ground running. You'll need to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work well. You should be ready to share ideas and fresh perspectives. Design and delivery of technical solutions with an emphasis on quality, automation and continuous integration. Work in collaboration with peers and contribute to new tech discussions. Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, collaborate on requirements, relationships and ensuring that the technology strategy is aligned with business goals and strategy. Calmly deal with issues; being happy to get stuck in to help fix issues and assist in identifying causes and effectively dealing with them. #LI-DB2 Job Specific Competencies: Technical Skills/Systems Knowledge (and associated skill level) Excellent experience and skills in Java (8 ) / Spring / Spring Boot. Solid understanding of object-orientated programming techniques and use of design patterns. Experience of build tools and CI/CD - e.g. Maven, Jenkins. Experience writing REST web services. Familiarity with both relational and NoSQL databases (we use Oracle, SQLServer and Mongo). Exposure to messaging - JMS or Kafka. Appreciation and understanding of security. Knowledge of developing in a microservices environment with auto-scaling, loosely coupled, secure & resilience services. Experience of web frameworks. Ideally you'll be: An advocate of agile engineering principles with a drive for automation. A technical polyglot with experience of shipping production code across a full-stack environment. A fantastic communicator and collaborator keen to work closely across teams. An enthusiastic innovator and creative problem solver, with a passion for technology. Academic/Professional Qualifications (or equivalent qualifiers): Formal education in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline preferred.