Java Developer - GCP (Edinburgh)

Pracyva ltd; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pracyva ltd is seeking a technical leader to guide a feature team and mentor junior engineers. You will own design and delivery, supporting target architectures, patterns, and scalable microservices in the public cloud environment, primarily using Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus, and REST APIs.

You will lead in a culture of innovation, promoting quality and efficient collaboration across engineering, and exploring AI-driven solutions to improve customer outcomes and engineering experience.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering scalable services.
• Strong Java development background with modern frameworks.
• Cloud proficiency, especially GCP, in large-scale environments.
• Experience with microservices architecture and secure design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day line management and leadership within the feature team.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to realise the Lab's vision and outcomes.
• Drive robust, scalable, maintainable services underpinning customer experiences.
• Promote best practices: CI/CD, TDD/BDD, inner sourcing, and high-quality delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Java

Spring Boot

Quarkus

REST APIs

Kubernetes

GCP

AI integration

CI/CD

TDD/BDD

Security practices

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Be a technical leader within your feature team, providing day-to-day line management, as well as providing leadership in the wider Lab and community, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers, helping them to grow.

Collaborate with product and engineering leads to realise the Lab's vision and deliver customer outcomes through robust, scalable, and maintainable services that underpin exceptional customer experiences.

Be curious about technology and look to foster a culture of innovation. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What we’re looking for

A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery, helping to grow our junior engineers capabilities and understanding of target architectures and patterns.

Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP.

Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot/Quarkus & REST APIs, hosting microservices in a container orchestration platform such as Kubernetes. Any experience of mobile native development would be beneficial.

Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.

You will lead and inspire teams to explore, adopt and responsibly integrate AI-driven solutions to achieve great customer outcomes and improve our engineering experience.

You're able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

You're an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

What you’ll get to learn

(any previous experience would be advantageous)

Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment