Junior Software Engineer - Ascend Technology Platform

We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to join our Experian Software Solutions Team. 

In this role you will be expected to drive development process and automation excellence through good business, product awareness and utilization of software quality best practices. You will be part of an Agile development team, working with various stakeholders such as Product Managers, Product Owners, Delivery and Operations Experts, to deliver a high-quality software product.

What you will do: 

• Being part of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle;
• Taking part in software design discussions, software development, peer reviews;
• Write automation tests as part of development process;
• Supporting and extends the existing CI/CD pipelines;
• Participating in research and adoption of new tools and technologies;
• Collaborating with other team members in implementation, code reviews, Scrum ceremonies, etc

What we are expecting to bring: 

• Knowledge and experience in Java, Rest API, Spring Framework, Spring-MVC, Spring-Security;
• Good knowledge of OOP principles, data structures, algorithms & design pattern; 
• Experience with microservice architectures;
• Experience with building tools;
• Experience with Virtualization/Containerization;
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases;
• Knowledge of version control system – preferably Git;
• Experience with test automation frameworks;
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle;
• Ability to investigate new technologies and communicate their advantages and disadvantages;
• Strong communication skills in English;

An advantage would be:

• Experience or Knowledge with some of the following technologies; Kubernetes, Docker and AWS, EKS, Jenkins, Kafka, Maven, unit testing frameworks, Prometheus/Grafana/Dynatrace; UI testing (Selenium, Cypress or similar); non-functional testing (JMeter);
• Basic knowledge of Linux/UNIX and networking;

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