Role Purpose:The Mid-Level Java Engineer is expected to demonstrate a high degree of initiative in terms of design and implementation decisions, while collaborating with senior engineers to review and ensure best practices are implemented – particularly in respect of new and novel technology initiatives. Additionally, the Mid-Level role is expected to provide mentoring and director to Junior engineers, contributing to code reviews and design reviews with the goal of ensuring quality and maintainability of the overall codebase.Responsibilities & AccountabilitiesParticipating in technical design. Validating strategies with Senior Engineers and Engineering Manager to ensure best practices and recognised design patterns are used. Striving for simplicity.Collaborating with developers on the same team and across the entire technology team. Ensuring knowledge is shared.Implementing efficient and performant solutions. Avoiding over-optimisation but recognising compute-intensive or IO intensive solutions and tuning / validating as appropriate.Implementing test-able, maintainable code. Following the Java team's pragmatic, defensible test strategies to ensure a desired level of quality.Working with Engineering Manager to deliver prioritised features and projects to the business according to agreed priorities and timing commitments.Providing input into the evolving Agile Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Integration and Automation.Skills & Experience RequiredExperience participating in agile planning and cross-functional stand-ups.Experienced Java (enterprise) developer. 4+ years of Java development experience.Working knowledge of Gang of Four Design Patterns.Working knowledge of frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA. Particularly in terms of the design and development practices they represent (Inversion of control, Modularity, Composition, etc)Awareness of emerging technologies and methodologies, recognising when there are efficiencies to be gained or competitive advantages in adopting or investigating new technologies.Experienced developing scalable Java Enterprise applications.Experienced in database integration – particular emphasis on Relational & Transact SQL.