This role is part of the Vesper team at Deltatre, building world-class streaming experiences for some of the most recognised media brands on the planet.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our multidisciplinary agile platform teams.You will work across the full breadth of our backend stack — Java services,, event-drivenprocesses, RESTful APIs, and the AWS infrastructure that delivers VOD and live events to usersat global scale.

This is a role for someone who takes ownership, thinks carefully about system design, and isenergised by working on engineering problems that genuinely matter at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and optimise Java services running event-driven processes and RESTful APIs on AWS infrastructure
• Design and implement robust, scalable solutions for VOD and live event delivery
• Contribute to system and API design, bringing your own thinking to architecture discussions
• Write and maintain automated tests (unit and integration) and support QA in defining test approaches
• Work closely with front-end engineers, QA and product teams within an agile delivery model
• Participate in code review, helping to raise and maintain engineering standards across the team
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability risks and technical debt proactively
  

Required Skills

• Strong Java 11+ - production experience on modern versions
• Solid relational database experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs (JAX-RS, Dropwizard, Spring Boot or similar)
• Experience working on event-driven systems (SQS, Kinesis, SNS, Kafka or similar)
• Familiarity with AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, SQS and DynamoDB
• Sound understanding of software design patterns and when to apply them
• Strong automated testing skills - unit and integration - and the ability to design meaning fultest cases
• Comfortable working in an agile development team with collaborative delivery practices
  

Valued / Optional Skills

• Scala or experience with functional programming paradigms
• Experience with NoSQL data stores
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible
• Docker and containerised workloads
• Experience delivering complex features with zero downtime in production systems Background in streaming, media or broadcast technology

We’re looking for someone who is:

• driven to push the boundaries and lead change and performance
• communicative to leave no-one in the dark and to work with your team successfully
• reliable so we know that we can call on you to meet deadlines
• passionate about the latest technologies and standards
• proactive to suggest improvements, identify and fix potential issues
• solid technically speaking, to advise both Clients and internal teams

Our people are key to our success and we pride ourselves on offering a dynamic, creative, innovative and supportive environment. Having the right combination of a 'can-do' approach, strong work ethic, integrity, friendliness and attention to detail is crucial.

Even if you don’t tick all the boxes for one particular role, but you have a keen interest in what we do, send us your details, we may find a suitable match during the interview process.

Deltatre consciously nurtures an environment where each and every team member feels safe to bring their whole selves to work, in which everyone is valued and respected for who they are and what they bring. Everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential, and every team member is expected to treat everyone with dignity and respect, value different perspectives, use inclusive language and work in alignment with Deltatre's commitment to diversity and inclusion. At Deltatre, everyone is welcome and celebrated.

We are committed to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities for all. Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments or if you have any special requirements for the interview process. Depending on the role this normally includes a written test and interview.