We are investing heavily into building new products and services that will impact the customer experience of millions who book Premier Inn hotel rooms, processing 12,187 service calls per minute, which is 17.5m a day! We are looking for a Senior Java Developer to join our Premier Inn Hub.
Using a Microservices architecture, you'll be building REST and GraphQL Services, using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, AWS.
Role: Senior Java Developer (Microservices)
Function: Digital
Location: London, we have a fantastic hybrid working environment, you’ll need to be in the office at least 2 days per week but the rest of your week can be flexible to what works best for you and your role.
Package: £65,000 - £75,000 plus up to 30% company performance-based bonus, private healthcare cover and many more benefits.
Inside the role:
- Work within an agile team to deliver across the entire product life cycle – concept, design, build (code), deploy, test, release, and maintain/support great products in a Dev-ops environment.
- Providing technical leadership.
- Partner with our architecture group to define and then develop robust and scalable. architectures that comply with Whitbread and industry best-practices and standards.
- Fully participate in the relevant scrum events; planning and estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Delivering API-enabled components and microservices using containerisation and cloud solutions to the highest engineering standards.
- Drive software architectural and design principles, test driven development, team standards and best practices e.g. code quality, improving the code base, agile ways of working, technical debt control.
- Mentoring colleagues, learning and sharing engineering skills.
We’re open to you:
- You are a passionate developer who loves clean coding but also getting their hands dirty.
- Excellent experience and knowledge of Java, Kubernetes and Microservices.
- Produce high-quality, clean and performant code.
- Product mindset and passion about building for internal stakeholders and external customer.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, as well as designing and implementing REST API’s.
- Experience with modern enterprise frameworks, E.g. Spring or Spring Boot.
- Experience with version control e.g. Git.
- Experience of working within a CI/CD environment
We’re 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we’re more than that. We’re the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation’s favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night’s sleep guaranteed people. We’re also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it’s the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We’re a constant in a changing world, and we’d love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we’re waiting and so are our brands.
In return, we will offer you:
- An annual Whitbread performance incentive worth up to 30% of base salary
- An optional contributory pension matched up to 10%
- Family BUPA healthcare
- Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and a regular 25% discount in our Restaurant brands
- Access to Whitbread’s Save As You Earn scheme, with a fantastic 20% discount on Whitbread shares
- Recognition for service anniversaries, starting from 1 year
- Access to a range of discounts from everyday brands
- Charity donations through our Give and Match and Raise and Match schemes
- A collaborative work culture that focuses on enabling your success and continuing your personal development
- Hybrid working and a genuine flexible working policy
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We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcome your application whatever your background or situation.
Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQ+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQ+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. We are open to part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.
Job ref: 766036-1629
Advertised: 20 Mar 2023
