Java Developer

🕒 April 28

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Pharmacy2U Ltd

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1001 - 5000 employees

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

Pharmaceuticals • eCommerce • B2C

Pharmacy2U Ltd is the UK’s largest online pharmacy and digital healthcare service, providing NHS prescription delivery, private online consultations, and a broad ecommerce shop for medicines, health and wellness, skincare, baby and pet health products. The company integrates with NHS services and GPs, offers an Online Doctor service for private treatments, and provides tools and an app for managing repeat prescriptions, order tracking and health information for consumers. It is a regulated pharmacy serving millions of patients and markets both prescription and over‑the‑counter health products alongside advice and clinical resources.

📋 Description

• Act as a hands‑on Java developer, contributing to the design, build, testing, and rollout of new medical services at scale • Maintain, enhance, and optimise existing services to reflect clinical innovation, regulatory change, and new medicines entering the market • Work within a microservices‑based architecture, applying best‑practice software design principles (SOLID, ACID, object‑oriented design) • Collaborate closely with product owners and stakeholders, balancing commercial considerations with technical quality • Engage with cutting‑edge technologies (including clinical algorithms and cloud platforms such as GCP) to improve patient outcomes • Contribute actively to team discussions, sharing ideas, asking thoughtful questions, and supporting collaborative problem‑solving • Understand business constraints and negotiate practical trade‑offs with delivery teams to achieve agreed goals • Ensure each development increment delivers clear business value, supporting the organisation’s competitive advantage

🎯 Requirements

• Previous development experience with Java 1.8+, Spring Boot and MySQL • Experience with cloud environments such as GCP, AWS or Azure • Writing integration tests (such as Cucumber) and understanding behaviour-driven development (BDD) principles (desirable) • Demonstrable front-end (React) experience in a full stack implementation context (desirable) • Working within an Agile environment (desirable) • Experience integrating with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify (desirable) • Experience with GoLang (desirable) • Familiarity in microservice architecture • Understanding of DevOps CI/CD methodologies, working with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, etc • Software Development best practice such as SOLID, ACID and OO design principles

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive contributory pension • Occupational sick pay • Long-service awards and refer-a-friend bonuses • Professional registration fees covered (GPhC, NMC, CIPD and more) • Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes (subject to eligibility) • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay • Flexible hybrid working to help balance work and home life • Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates (Aviva) • Employee Assistance Programme and in-house mental health support • Access to discounted gym memberships via benefits schemes • Regular health and wellbeing initiatives • Strong commitment to CPD, training and professional development • 25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service • Buy and sell holiday scheme • Employee discount platform • Exclusive discounts • 25% off health & beauty purchases • 25% off Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor services • Regular social events throughout the year