Java Developer

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Job description

We are Global

We're proud to be one of the world's leading media and entertainment groups. Whether it be on-air, via global player or through our outdoor advertising, we entertain and reach over 50 million individuals across the UK every week.

Across our entire business, we're committed to making more moments that matter for our audiences, customers and for each other. And every moment matters…the small, the big and everything in between. We couldn't do any of it without our talented, passionate Globallers. Everything we do is driven by our culture and the talented people who make it happen.

Here at Global, we have a saying…it's all about how you make people feel. It's our company ethos, our guiding belief and it's so much more than words. It's the vibe you get when you walk into one of our offices, it's what keeps us honest and true to who we are, and above all, it's the reason we all love to work here.

Job Description

Java Developer (Remote eligible - UK)

Overview of job

The Commercial Technology team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business. We are passionate about 3 key areas of the business:

• Sales Operations (opportunity management and campaign details);
• Trading and Fulfilment (campaign planning, booking and delivery); and
• Programmatic (audio and outdoor digital ad platform).

We are facing many exciting and interesting scaling questions, technical challenges and looking at new ways to grow the business. This role will be essential to that success.

We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment.

3 best things about the job

• Work with our streaming and dynamic ad insertion platform that provides a phenomenal listening experience for millions of people every day.
• Work in a highly collaborative, agile environment to develop innovative solutions.
• Work in partnership with the product team to set the priorities for the fastest growing part of the business.

Measures of success -

In the first few months, you would have

• Followed good development practice and taken an active part in code reviews.
• Delivered several larger features to the partners.
• Assisted in ensuring a reliable production environment using relevant tooling.
• Understand what the roadmap looks like.

Responsibilities of the role

• Developing features for the business in Programmatic (audio and outdoor digital ad platform).
• Take part in code reviews and other practices in the team to help maintain a high technical standard.
• Help run our agile development process.
• Help drive our collaborative learning culture.
• Help maintain a reliable production environment.

What you will need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• Self starting, problem solving attitude.
• Proven experience of good coding patterns and understanding of multithreaded code.
• Proven experience in Java 8+, networking/distributed systems, databases and other relevant tooling. Although this role focuses on Java, we use other languages too so an ability to learn them would be encouraged.
• Demonstrable experience of writing well tested code, also accounting for how code will need to be supervised in production.
• Highly collaborative outlook and demonstrable experience working in a cross functional team.

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can't possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that's why we work hard to build an inclusive culture for everyone.

We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Where you'll be

We have Globallers working all over the UK, so there's plenty of flexibility in supporting your best way of working.

You can be based from anywhere in the UK and when you fancy some office vibes, we've got multiple UK locations to choose to work from.

And to make sure you don't miss a thing, we'll bring the team together in our London office a couple of times a month too.