Java Engineer

About Us: 

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future. 

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You:

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.

The Role:  

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice as a Full Stack Engineer, to work alongside our team and help build out the capability. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Working across the full lifecycle from requirement gathering and design, through to coding and into testing, deployment and maintenance. 
• Liaising with management and stakeholders on client requirements and understanding team objectives. 
• As a consultant with Solirius you will have exposure to a variety of projects and challenges 
• Championing and contributing towards engineering best practises across our team and projects.

Key Skills/Experience:

You need to be technically sound but also be able to convey your knowledge and expertise to clients internally and externally. In terms of specific languages you should have commercial experience in some or all of the following; 

• Substantial experience as a hands- on Full Stack Engineer
• Java 7/8 to current 
• Applied knowledge of front end frameworks (Angular, React, other similar)
• Spring framework or Jax-RS, Jax-WS, JPA 
• Knowledge of selected front end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
• Rest, Hibernate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, development and deployment in a cloud environment 
• SQL 
• TDD/BDD 
• Experience of working with cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS, GCP is beneficial)
• Experience in unit testing frameworks (Karma, Jasmine or others)

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
• Statutory & Contributory Pension
• EAP with Help@Hand
• Gym Membership Benefits
• Flexible Working

• Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.