Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer - Java, Spring boot, Terraform, AWS, React, TypeScript

Location: Remote, occasional travel to the office
Salary: Up to £75,000 + benefits

Why Apply?

Play a pivotal role in designing, building, extending an end to end procurement platform aimed at customers in the public sector. This product is built using a containerised microservices architecture in the AWS. You'll be joining our growing engineering team and working collaboratively with a product team to ensure applications are secure, scalable, performant and aligned to business needs. You will provide technical leadership, mentor colleagues, and actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, making best use of modern cloud practices and innovative solutions.

Senior Java Software Engineer - Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust Java applications hosted in AWS, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with team members and QA to achieve high quality and well verified code.
• Implement secure, reliable, and efficient solutions leveraging AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB).
• Collaborate closely with the team to design technical solutions, actively participating in architecture discussions.
• Ensure application code adheres to coding standards, best practices, and is thoroughly tested.
• Take ownership of troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving complex production issues.
• Mentor junior developers by providing guidance, conducting code reviews, and sharing knowledge about Java and AWS best practices.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to development processes and infrastructure automation using CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Monitor and optimise application performance and resource utilisation in AWS environments.
• Recommend innovations to drive continuous improvement.

Skills required:

Must have:

• Strong ability in Java and Spring Boot-based applications
• Significant experience of building and maintaining containerised applications in Kubernetes and in building applications with AWS technology.
• Strong understanding of DevOps culture, processes, technical practices and tools, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building and consuming REST web services.
• Experience working with agile methodologies.
• Experience mentoring and providing support to other team members.

Added bonus:

• Python skills would be desirable.
• Understanding of financial systems.

What's in it for me?

• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service (up to 29) plus bank holidays
• Holiday buying scheme (up to 5 days)
• Extra day off on/near your birthday
• Volunteering day
• Salary sacrifice EV scheme
• Company bonus
• Pension scheme
• Death in service x4 salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Simply Health cash back
• Byond card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Fully remote with occasional office visits

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.