Java Engineer
Permanent - Full Time £27,500 - £42,000 / yearJob Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Java engineer to join one of many agile squads in the Insurance Retail family, we are looking for someone who likes a challenge, wants to embrace a DevOps culture and brings ideas around improved ways of working. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can collaborate with different levels of technical ability. AI is a big part of life at CDL and you will be keen to adopt the use of AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and innovation within your team and to evolve our products.
About CDL
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.
We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.
In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!
Key Responsibilities
You will be working with a squad responsible for the delivery, maintenance, and support of CDL products in the Finance domain. You will be closely involved in projects to migrate some of those products to the cloud as well as providing support and feature enhancements adhering to a product delivery roadmap.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Strong Java development experience
- Experience of unit and integration testing
- Version control system (Git)
- Build Tools (Gradle or Maven)
Highly Desirable
- Significant experience with AWS or similar cloud platform
- UI development with Wicket or similar web application framework
- Working knowledge of Gitlab or GitHub
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience with TDD
- Experience with React and Typescript
- Working knowledge of Kibana, Terraform
- Experience of AI tools such as Amazon Q developer
Experience of processing financial transactions and/or the insurance industry would be advantageous.