Senior Java Software Engineer

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.
• CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles.
• Monitoring and logging in distributed systems.
• A pragmatic, collaborative and quality driven engineering mindset.

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

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Microservices

Kafka

CI/CD

DevOps principles

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & Logging

Job description

• Senior Software Engineer Java
• Melbourne
• Daily-rate contract
• Greenfield project

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(Language) 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
• Longა 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.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Media

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