Java Developer

Wakefield, MA

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

Java Developer

We are looking for a talented and motivated Java developer who will work as part of a distributed agile team to design and implement RESTful web services for the SDL LiveContent S1000D product which is part of the SDL Contenta Publishing suite. For more information, please visit https://www.sdl.com/software-and-services/knowledge-delivery-s1000d/contenta-publishing-suite.html

Required skills

• 3+ years of Java development experience
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+
• A good foundation in algorithms, design patterns and data structures
• Experience with the development and maintenance of REST APIs
• Understanding of asynchrony, concurrency and parallelism
• Knowledge and practical experience with Spring (Spring Boot, Data, Security, MVC)
• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL) and ORM (Hibernate)
• Experience with testing tools like Spring Testing Framework, JUnit, Mockito
• Team player with strong communication skills in English both written and spoken
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

As a plus

• Knowledge of XML, XSL & related technologies (DOM, StAX, SAX, XPath etc.)
• Experience working in an agile scrum environment 
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• Experience in CI tools i.e. Jenkins, SonarQube
• Experience with cloud technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with Git flow and branch strategies
• Experience with Jira/Confluence and agile development environments 

Benefits:

• Amazing benefits. (Seriously!)
• Infinite training, professional development and personal growth opportunities.
• The rare opportunity to impact how organizations communicate globally. There’s a reason we work with 90 of the top 100 brands.
• Smart, engaged co-workers, a culture of diversity, innovation and opportunity.
• Great work life balance!

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and prmoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration.

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

RWS is an Affirmative Action Employer.  Qualified applicants will be evaluated for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran, and disability status.  For more information about EEO/AAP legislation please visit: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

To all recruitment agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.

                                           In November 2020 SDL PLC was acquired by RWS Group PLC.