Java Developer

Test Yantra; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly skilled engineer with hands-on experience in Java and a strong engineering mindset. The ideal candidate should be proficient in Kubernetes and have experience with performance testing and observability tools. This role emphasizes the implementation of scalable and reliable systems, along with expertise in container management and automated testing. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering mindset with focus on scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience with Java and related technologies.
• Experience deploying and securing on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement scalable and reliable systems.
• Conduct performance testing and generate metrics.
• Manage container orchestration using Kubernetes.

Skills

Strong engineering mindset

Hands-on experience with Java

Familiarity with Kafka

Proficient in Kubernetes

Experience with CockroachDB

Container image management

Performance testing

Automated end-to-end testing

Observability and performance monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Google gRPC

Envoy

Podman 5

Prometheus

Grafana

Gatling

BlazeMeter

Job description

• Strong engineering mindset with a focus on scalable, reliable systems
• Hands‑on experience with Java, Gaia, S3, Kafka, CockroachDB, Google gRPC (RPC), GVP (gvproxy), and Terraform
• Implementation of Envoy reverse proxy integrated with Rust‑based WebAssembly (WASM) components
• Experience deploying and securing on‑prem Gaia environments using GVP (gvproxy)
• Proficient in Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Container image management using Google Container Registry (GCR) and Podman 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Experience with CockroachDB and other NoSQL databases
• Automated end‑to‑end testing including code coverage, mutation testing, and mocking Java services at the database layer
• Performance testing of development environments with analysis and generation of performance metrics and graphs
• Monorepo testing across microservice‑to‑microservice interactions
• Load and performance testing using Gatling and BlazeMeter
• Observability and performance monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Gatling, and BlazeMeter