Backend Developer

**Role Profile**:

- Creating prototypes, designing and building modules and solutions in an iterative agile cycle
- Estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables
- Performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects and other developers to produce “just enough” design
- Providing software-related operations support

**Core Competencies and Qualifications**:

- Microservices Patterns, Design patterns, Spring AOP, Spring boot, Spring AOP, Java, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Hibernate, SQL, XML, JSON, Maven, GIT & RedHat OpenShift
- Self-motivation and can-do attitude
- Pleasant communication skills
- 2-5 years of work experience in agile and lean programming and development of software systems
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles
- Experience working in cloud-native environments
- Micro-services architectures & APIs
- Practice CI/CD methodologies and tools
- Accurate backlog item estimation
- Unit, integration, smoke and static code analysis testing
- Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry
- RedHat OpenShift Certified or Experience
- Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)

**Not a perfect fit?**:
**What's in it for you**:
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

**Who we are**:
You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

Together we can.