Java Developer

Lime Recruitment; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Java Developer for a role based in Queensland, Australia. The position offers hybrid working and involves responsibilities such as modifying back-end code, collaborating with stakeholders, and diagnosing production issues. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 3 years of experience in back-end development using Java or Kotlin, as well as experience with API design, cloud platforms, and Terraform. This is a contract role with the possibility of extensions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering.
• Contemporary back-end development skills.
• Experience in API design and building RESTful web services.

Responsibilities

• Writing and modifying back-end code.
• Collaborating with Architects and other teams.
• Diagnosing production bugs and implementing fixes.
• Deploying code in accordance with SecDevOps.

Skills

Back-end development

Java/Kotlin

API design

Microservices

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, AZURE)

Terraform

Domain-Driven Design

Event-Driven processing

Kubernetes

Job description

Contract to 31/12/2026 plus extensions | Carseldine | Hybrid working

We are partnering with a leading Queensland Government client to recruit an experienced Java Developer. In this role, you will be providing technical leadership in implementing the design, development, testing and operations to deliver solutions incrementally. You will be responsible for influencing and mentoring other engineers in engineering best practices.

Key responsibilities:

• Writing and modifying back-end code to create, maintain, test and debug back-end software services and components.
• Collaborating with Architects, other teams, and Stakeholders to align code to designated Architectural Patterns and Stakeholder needs.
• Analysing business requirements and designing solutions and features.
• Diagnosing production bugs and implementing improvements and fixes.
• Solving problems using logic and methodical testing processes.
• Developing testing and validation processes.
• Deploying code to the live environment in accordance with a required SecDevOps approach

What we’re looking for:

• A minimum of 3 years of Software engineer Experience
• Contemporary back-end development (Microservices and APIs) with Java/Kotlin and/or C#. Python skills also well regarded.
• Experience with API design and building RESTful web services. Ideally both containerised and serverless delivery experience.
• Experience working with any cloud platform AWS, GCP, AZURE
• Terraform and ‘infrastructure as code’ provisioning skills.
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and its practical application.
• Event-Driven processing and event-streaming via Apache Kafka.
• Development experience with Kubernetes Operators is advantageous.