Senior Java Backend Engineer - Microservices & AWS (Contract)

Method Recruitment Group; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 166,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Flexible working arrangements

Long contract opportunity

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Java for a contract position in Melbourne. You will join a high-performing team focused on building and evolving critical customer-facing platforms. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in backend engineering, extensive knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, and a strong background in AWS and microservices. This role offers an opportunity to work on large-scale digital products with flexible arrangements and a competitive salary package.

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.

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.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Microservices

Kafka

CI/CD

DevOps principles

Job description

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Java for a contract position in Melbourne. You will join a high-performing team focused on building and evolving critical customer-facing platforms. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in backend engineering, extensive knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, and a strong background in AWS and microservices. This role offers an opportunity to work on large-scale digital products with flexible arrangements and a competitive salary package.