Java Developer

Position: Java Developer

Xbridge background

This is an excellent opportunity to join the UK’s leading online finance and insurance business aimed at the small business market. Simply Business helps thousands of businesses every day to find the best financing and insurance to suit their needs. You can see the site in action at: www.simplybusiness.co.uk

Simply Business is a part of Xbridge Ltd, Europe’s leading provider of business finance and insurance platforms to the banking and insurance industries. Xbridge works with 3 out of the 4 UK High St banks and the 2 of the largest UK insurers, providing infrastructure and online marketing consultancy.

The role mainly involves:

• Working with internal business clients to understand their requirements and translate into value-generating technical solutions
• Designing, developing and implementing new systems or components of Xbridge’s application portfolio
• Enhancing and developing existing application systems or components
• Supporting, troubleshooting and managing production applications
• Enabling bespoke and standardised data integration with clients and partners
• Managing and reviewing development team coding practices, including enforcement of approved architectures, methodologies and standards.

Requirements

• Proven commercial experience building experience building dynamic database driven Web applications using J2SE & J2EE components & frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise database servers such as Oracle 10g/MS SQL Server.
• Experience with Web Services and SOA.
• Good Unix skills, including experience with various OS flavours, underlying daemons, protocols and tools.Linux, Solaris, Apache, etc
• Experience with XP development methodologies, as well as other approaches; strong knowledge of source control tools and release management, build and unit testing tools (Perforce, ANT, JUnit, etc.)
• Deployment / Administration experience with one of Tomcat, Weblogic or Webshpere.
• BSc or MSc (preferred) in Computer Science, Maths or similar, with a minimum 2.1 from a top tier university (or equivalent).
• Analytical mind and creative approach to problem solving.
• Object Oriented Design & Development using UML.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience in financial services and/or a strong e-commerce experience is very useful.
• Experience of Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, OO Design Patterns is a bonus.

You should be a driven and focused individual willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company.

Please email your CV to our Human Resources department at careers@xbridge.com or fax it to 020 7920 8088.Please include cover letter and expected salary and
be sure to include career objectives and goals in your CV!

Salary; Commensurate with experience up to £45k with excellent benefits package