Backend Engineer (Java/Spring) - Cloud Microservices

Randstad Technologies Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 192,864,000 - 234,192,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Technologies Recruitment in Manchester seeks a Backend Software Engineer on a 6-month contract to help scale our travel and attractions ecosystem. You will join a core engineering team focused on integrating global third-party providers and building cloud-native microservices.

You will own distributed systems, event-driven data flows, and reliable API integrations, with emphasis on fault tolerance, tracing, and automated testing.

Qualifications

• Proven experience engineering high-scale production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS for microservices.
• Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka or similar messaging backbone.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations.
• Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications.
• Apply strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health.
• Own the Lifecycle: end-to-end technical ownership from refining specs to live production monitoring.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful API design

Distributed systems principles

TDD/Automated testing

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Apache Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Randstad Technologies Recruitment in Manchester seeks a Backend Software Engineer on a 6-month contract to help scale our travel and attractions ecosystem. You will join a core engineering team focused on integrating global third-party providers and building cloud-native microservices.

You will own distributed systems, event-driven data flows, and reliable API integrations, with emphasis on fault tolerance, tracing, and automated testing.