At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Company: Join a leading digital organisation with a strong engineering culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and long-term contract opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborate with top technical teams and enjoy a dynamic work culture.
- Why this job: Make a real-world impact on large-scale digital products in a cloud-native environment.
- Qualifications: 6+ years in backend engineering with strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
The predicted salary is between 123750 - 151250 $ per year.
We are partnering with a large scale digital organisation to find a Software Engineer with strong backend expertise in Java and distributed systems. This role sits within a high performing engineering team responsible for building and evolving critical customer facing platforms used at national scale. You will work closely with product, architecture and engineering leaders to design, build and optimise resilient microservices and event driven systems in a cloud native environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain high performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Deliver scalable microservices that are secure, observable and reliable
- Build event driven systems using Kafka and modern messaging frameworks
- Deploy and optimise workloads on AWS using infrastructure as code principles
- Partner with architects and engineers to translate solution designs into production ready systems
- Improve performance, reliability and operational excellence through automation and best practice
- Participate in code reviews, mentoring and continuous improvement of engineering standards
- Support production systems with strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
Qualifications:
- 6 plus years experience in backend or platform engineering
- Strong hands on experience with Java and Spring Boot in production environments
- Solid experience building and scaling microservices
- Strong exposure to AWS cloud services
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms
- CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles
- Monitoring and logging in distributed systems
- A pragmatic, collaborative and quality driven engineering mindset
Why you would consider this role:
- Work on large scale digital products with real world impact
- Modern cloud native engineering environment
- Strong engineering culture with real ownership
- Long contract opportunity - no limits
- Competitive salary package and flexible working arrangements
If you are a senior backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems at scale and working alongside high calibre technical teams, this is a role worth exploring.
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