Senior Java Developer IRC303861
Senior Java engineer on a permanent feature team building a real-time banking platform: designing and delivering Spring Boot microservices and Kafka-based event-driven distributed systems, with continuous deployment, observability, and automation in cloud-native environments.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Skills required: Kafka, Java/Spring Boot microservices, resilient service design patterns, and continuous deployment practices
- Strong experience working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments
- Experience building and operating cloud native services using technologies such as Spring Boot, with automation as a core engineering principle
- Strong experience building robust, resilient and defensively coded distributed systems, ideally leveraging Kafka
- Designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale, including versioning, observability, monitoring, and forward/backward compatibility
- Experience with event driven architectures, both orchestrated and choreographed
- Strong experience operating in distributed, cloud native environments with complex failure modes
- Experience working effectively in teams that value autonomy and empowerment
- Proven ability to coach and mentor other engineers
Nice to have
- Exposure to agentic coding practices
Full description
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.
You’ll also be:
You’ll also be:
- Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
- Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
- Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
- Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
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Requirements
- This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
- You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
- Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
Skills required: Kafka, Java/Spring Boot microservices, resilient service design patterns, and continuous deployment practices.
Job responsibilities
We’re looking for someone to join our high performance engineering team building our new real time banking platform. You’ll bring strong experience of working with Continuous Deployment practices in production environments.
You’ll have experience building and operating cloud native services using technologies such as Spring Boot, with automation as a core engineering principle.
You’ll be comfortable designing and delivering robust, scalable and resilient distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely beneficial
You’ll also need:
- Strong experience building robust, resilient and defensively coded distributed systems, ideally leveraging technologies such as Kafka and an understanding of designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale, including versioning, observability, monitoring, and forward, backward compatibility
- Experience with event driven architectures, both orchestrated and choreographed is expected
- Experience working effectively in teams that value autonomy and empowerment, where engineering excellence is aligned to product outcomes