Java Engineer

CDL Software; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK software development company is looking for a passionate Java Engineer to join their agile teams. The role involves working with cloud technologies and enhancing CDL's products while promoting innovation through AI tools. The company offers a dynamic culture with plenty of opportunities for career progression and hybrid work options.

Benefits

Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office)

25 days holiday to start

Excellent training and development platform

Health and Wellbeing programme

Life and health assurance

Community projects and volunteer days

Refer a friend bonus

Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platform highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of Gitlab or GitHub preferred.
• Experience of AI tools such as Amazon Q developer is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work within a squad for delivery, maintenance, and support of CDL products.
• Involved in cloud migration projects and feature enhancements.

Skills

Unit and integration testing

Git

Gradle or Maven

Tools

AWS

Kibana

Terraform

Job description

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This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Java engineer to join one of many agile squads in the Insurance Retail family, we are looking for someone who likes a challenge, wants to embrace a DevOps culture and brings ideas around improved ways of working. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can collaborate with different levels of technical ability. AI is a big part of life at CDL and you will be keen to adopt the use of AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and innovation within your team and to evolve our products.

About CDL
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!

Key Responsibilities

You will be working with a squad responsible for the delivery, maintenance, and support of CDL products in the Finance domain. You will be closely involved in projects to migrate some of those products to the cloud as well as providing support and feature enhancements adhering to a product delivery roadmap.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience of unit and integration testing
• Version control system (Git)
• Build Tools (Gradle or Maven)

Highly Desirable

• Significant experience with AWS or similar cloud platform
• UI development with Wicket or similar web application framework
• Working knowledge of Gitlab or GitHub
• Experience with infrastructure as code
• Experience with TDD
• Experience with React and Typescript
• Working knowledge of Kibana, Terraform
• Experience of AI tools such as Amazon Q developer

Experience of processing financial transactions and/or the insurance industry would be advantageous.

Salary

The salary for the role of Java Engineer with Cloud Experience (Level 3) pays within our pay banding of £27,500 to £46,000, providing a fantastic opportunity for career progression through CDL’s clearly defined career framework (https://progression.cdl.co.uk/).

Your growth and advancement within CDL are only limited by your own ambition and effort.

Benefits

• Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office)
• Truly flexible working.
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 8th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Diversity and Inclusion network
• Community projects and volunteer days
• Refer a friend bonus
• On-site free parking
• Quiet Spaces are also available
• Shuttle bus to and from the station
• Subsidised restaurant
• Games room and chill out zone
• Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
• Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
• Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shower and dry rooms

Diversity and inclusion
We’re on a journey to keep innovating, that means welcoming new ideas and ways of thinking.

CDL recognises that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

This Policy was last updated in April 2025

The UKs biggest insurance retailers rely on CDLs trend setting solutions to drive success and growth. Our ambition and commitment has produced a track record of delivering exactly that. The result is a client base that includes some of the most profitable insurance operations in the UK.