Junior Java Software Engineer (Aeronautical Products)

Full Job Description

Junior Java Software Engineer (Aeronautical Products)

Employment type: Full time, Permanent

Job location: Remote within the UK or Cambridge, UK office based (Hybrid work)

1Spatial Group Limited is a leading global provider of software, solutions, and services for managing location data. Whether mapping the natural world or physical infrastructure, our systems enable the management of complex spatial data to deliver profound benefits on a global scale: protecting the environment, improving quality and security of essential services, reducing costs on large-scale government programmes and many more.

Everything we do is built around a commitment to doing the right thing for our customers, our people and our planet. Our Mission, Vision, Purpose and Values (We Respect, We Innovate, We Collaborate, We Trust and We Care!) guide the way we do business.

We are headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with operations in the UK, Ireland, USA, France, Belgium, Australia and Tunisia.

Our Development Team:

Our UK office is the heart of our Product Development and our biggest Development Hub, with a strong team of 60+ developers, testers, product owners, technical authors, machine learning specialists and UI/UX designers. We are looking to grow our team to make our latest innovation initiatives a reality. Our autonomous cross-functional teams plan, develop, test and deliver powerful enterprise systems and web, mobile, desktop and cloud applications using well established but continuously improving industry standard practices, languages, tools and platforms. We have two main streams of application development - Java and C#, underpinned by our patented rules engine technology and a proprietary object-oriented database and data processing core. These are, empowered by front-end technologies such as React and Xamarin and integrated by powerful DevOps pipelines along with a breadth of stream specific automated testing.

The Role:

Join us and shape the future of our new development team responsible for developing greenfield products and systems for the aeronautical sector! 

We are looking for people to join this exciting initiative that will deliver state of the art data management and integration products to the aeronautical and defence industry. As a Java back-end developer you will be contributing to a cross functional Agile Scrum team of developers, testers, and product managers, as well as utilising, enhancing your existing skills or learning technologies such as Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Docker, Data manipulation and CI/CD tools and practices. You will be a key part of the design and development and will help 1Spatial deliver its next generation aeronautical products that will provide insight to make aviation safer, smarter, and more sustainable.

Requirements

What would make you an excellent Software Engineer at 1Spatial?

• Passion for code quality and clean, maintainable, testable solutions.
• Proficiency in back-end development using Java and OO Design patterns.
• Experience in containerisation, continuous integration and delivery practices.

A great fit but not essential (there is plenty to learn on the job!):

• Experience of data manipulation and relational databases.
• Experience in Spring-based applications with Spring Boot.
• Development experience in ideally cloud-based applications and microservices.

Benefits

What we can offer you:

• Fantastic opportunity to work for a company that has been named amongst the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® list in the UK, and Top 100 companies in the Cambridgeshire area.
• Long-term career prospects with opportunities to develop – the job is what you make it!
• Friendly and collaborative environment where every 1Team member is treated with respect and trust.
• Flexibility

In addition to…

• 25 days annual leave, plus birthday day off, plus option to buy/sell further annual leave
• Pension scheme (employer and employee contributions)
• Group income protection scheme and Life Assurance
• Private Health Insurance and Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Personal Development Allowance

Please note that we require that all candidates are able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK.