Java Software Engineer

SF Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Java Software Engineer to build complex greenfield solutions on a contract basis. The ideal candidate should possess at least 5 years of experience in Java, with knowledge of microservices architecture and cloud computing. This role offers a competitive rate of £550 - £600 per day and requires the ability to travel and be on-site once a week. Immediate availability is preferred.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of commercial Java experience building enterprise-grade applications.
• Experience with strong frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, and Spring Boot.
• Solid knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Build complex, highly scalable greenfield solutions for a FinTech market leader.
• Work on enterprise-grade microservices architected applications.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure efficient application deployment and operation.

Skills

Commercial Java experience

Spring framework

Hibernate

RDBMS experience

NoSQL

Git version control

Cloud computing (AWS)

Microservices architecture

CI/CD

TDD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

ELK

Job description

Java Software Engineer is sought on a contract basis by a market FinTech with hubs across the UK.

This Java Software Engineer will be tasked with building complex, highly scalable greenfield solutions with international scope. As such experience working on enterprise grade microservices architected applications is a key must have.

Key Skills

• At least 5 years commercial java experience ideally gained building enterprise grade applications
• Strong framework experience (spring, hibernate, spring boot etc)
• Strong RDBMS experience - NoSQL, MongoDB etc
• Troubleshooting exposure - Splunk, ELK etc
• Git version control
• Automation experience - CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes would be a real plus
• Solid AWS cloud exposure
• TDD experience
• Microservices/ serverless architecture understanding

This contract role is offered on a rolling 3 month basis and is paying between £550 & £600 per day outside of IR35. Due to the national nature of this role the ability to travel and be on-site one day a week would be hugely beneficial. The ability to start within 2 weeks would also be preferred.

Java Software Engineer
£550 - £600 per day
UK wide
Java, Microservices, AWS, RDBMS, Splunk, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, TDD