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Senior Java Developer

Santander
The Netherlandsfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Sept 2025

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Senior Java Developer<p></p><p></p>Country: Netherlands<p></p><p><b><span>Senior Java Developer</span></b></p><p></p><p><b><span>Santander Consumer Finance SA</span></b></p><p>Are you a pro-active challenge seeker within your Java skillset and able to pick where we left off?</p><p>Then you might be the Senior Java developer we are looking for!</p><p></p><p><b>Your role and the team</b></p><p>In the role of Senior Java Developer, you will be responsible for helping us finalize a set of projects and migrations that are initiated through different initiatives throughout the organization. You will also be responsible to provide the best solutions possible. Solutions that you are able to size, document and build together with the team.</p><p></p><p>Our IT Development team exists of a multidimensional team of Project managers, Testers and Developers with different backgrounds and disciplines. Together we are responsible for conducting migrations and changes to remain in line with requirements varying from technical stability, Cybersecurity, Organizational strategy, Legal &amp; Compliance and Risk.</p><p></p><p><b>What do we expect from you</b></p><ul><li>8+ years of IT experience in analysis, design, development, documentation, implementation and testing of software systems in Java, J2EE and internet technologies.</li><li>Good experience in developing Web Services SOAP, JAX-WS, WSDL, REST APIs.</li><li>Strong skills to build automation tools and experience in CI/CD pipeline software such as GitLab, Jenkins.</li><li>Expertise on Docker.</li><li>Knowledge on Application Development using Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.</li><li>Expertise in working with various J2EE technologies including; Hibernate, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Framework, Servlets, JSP, JNDI, JMS, JDBC, AJAX, WEB SERVICES and Maven, Log4j, Junit.</li><li>Strong experience in Spring Framework such as Spring MVC, IOC, AOP and Spring JDBC.</li><li>Knowledge in implementing Java EE design patterns such as MVC, Singleton, Session Facade, DAO, DTO and Business Delegate in the development of Multi-Tier distributed Enterprise Applications.</li><li>Experience in core Java-Multithreading, collections, Servlets and JDBC.</li><li>Experience in configuring and deploying applications on Tomcat 5.5/6.0/7.0 server, JBOSS EAP.Sound RDBMS concepts and broadly worked MicrosoftSQL or MySQL.</li><li>Experience in designing front end interfaces using HTML, JSP, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax.</li><li>Knowledge of XML Suite of Technologies XML, XSL, XSLT and validations with DTD and XML Schema and processing profile with SAX, DOM Parsers.</li><li>Experience with Use-Case design, Class and Sequence diagrams using UML.</li><li>Good working experience in GLJI design and application development using IDE’s like Eclipse, netbeanks, IntelliJ.</li><li>PHP skills are a +</li></ul><p></p><p><b>You are </b></p><ul><li>Excellent team player with good analytical, strategic and interpersonal and communication skills, highly motivated, enthusiastic and self-starter.</li><li>Excellent in English, both verbally and in written.</li><li>Able to coordinate and work in a team that consists of multicultural striving individuals, fitting in perfectly.</li><li>Knowledgeable in sharing relevant information with different team members you work with.</li><li>A savvy striver when it comes to change and optimization, with technical solutions that help us reach our goals.</li><li>Available for 40 hours per week.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>About us</b></p><p></p><p><b>We are</b></p><p>Santander Consumer Finance. We have been active in the consumer finance market in the Netherlands since 1985 (car financing, personal loans and stock financing). In the Netherlands, we serve our customers from our office in Utrecht, and since 1992 also in Belgium from our office in Merelbeke (near Ghent). The leasing company Santander Leasing is also part of Santander (in the Netherlands with offices in Den Bosch, and in Belgium from Merelbeke). Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together, we are part of the Santander Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.</p><p></p><p><b>What makes Santander Santander?</b></p><p>We work with many different nationalities. Showing initiative is appreciated by us, just like humor. We stimulate creativity and spar with each other about new ideas. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.</p><p></p><p><b>What sets us apart:</b></p><p>We have an open-plan office with several bigger or smaller meeting rooms and focus rooms if you have the need for more privacy and focus. We know how important mobile work is. Where it can be reconciled with the job, employees can work from home two or three days a week and are still connected to colleagues and customers via MS Teams. For 7 years, we have been receiving the Top Employer Netherlands, Belgium and Europe award. The health and wellbeing of our professionals are a priority a

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