Backend Engineer (Java) for Scalable APIs | Oxfordshire

Humand Talent; England; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Humand Talent is seeking a Software Engineer in Oxfordshire for a backend-focused role, solving complex problems and building reliable products at scale.

You will work on large-scale digital products, design and build backend services and APIs, and own features from design to production. This role offers a pathway to deepen backend skills while collaborating across product, design and data teams.

Qualifications

• Commercial backend software engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming.
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• An understanding of software design, testing and maintainability.
• Experience working within a collaborative engineering team.
• An interest in building scalable and reliable systems.
• The ability to discuss technical decisions and the trade-offs behind them.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building backend services and APIs.
• Developing new customer-facing features.
• Solving problems around scalability, performance and reliability.
• Working with relational databases and distributed systems.
• Contributing to technical design and architecture discussions.
• Writing well-tested, maintainable software.
• Monitoring and improving applications in production.
• Working closely with product, design, data and engineering teams.
• Contributing across the stack when needed.
• Using modern AI-assisted development tools to support the engineering process.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data structures

OOP

SQL

Team collaboration

Cloud (AWS)

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted development

Tools

Spring Boot

React

AWS

NoSQL

CI/CD

Job description

Humand Talent is seeking a Software Engineer in Oxfordshire for a backend-focused role, solving complex problems and building reliable products at scale.

You will work on large-scale digital products, design and build backend services and APIs, and own features from design to production. This role offers a pathway to deepen backend skills while collaborating across product, design and data teams.