Java Software Engineer

Bounteous; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous, a global AI Services firm, seeks a Senior Java Developer for a hybrid Glasgow role (3 days in office). Bring 4–12 years’ experience to design, build, and scale Java-based AI-enabled applications.

You will work with Java 17, Kafka, Spring Boot, and AWS, interfacing with stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver robust software in a collaborative setting. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, comfortable working autonomously yet within a

Qualifications

• Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, and UNIX knowledge are essential.
• Self-starter with good communication and ability to work with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to enhancing our current applications that are written in Java 17.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems/requirements into technical specifications.
• Autonomously operate in a high-trust environment while collaborating with the team.
• Write unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Core understanding of streaming in Java and AWS services.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot framework.
• Implement architectures: microservices, event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, cloud-native.
• SQL and NoSQL databases familiarity.
• Strong English communication with users and developer community.

Skills

Java 8

Multi-threading

Problem solving

Self-starter

English communication

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Spring Boot

Argo CD

GitLab CI/CD

Unix

Job description

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building.

Job Role: Senior Java Developer
Duration: Fulltime & Contract - 12 months plus
Location: Glasgow, UK (Hybrid Model: 3 days per week in office)
Experience level: Minimum 4-12 yrs

Mandatory skills:

Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, problem solving as core skillset with knowledge of databases and design patterns, and some hands-on experience on UNIX. The candidate needs to be a self-starter, a confident personality with good communication skills who can work with minimum oversight and handholding.

Key Responibilities:

• Proactively contribute to enhancing our current applications that are written in Java 17.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems/requirements into technical specifications.
• Comfortable with working autonomously in a high trust environment, but equally important to be able to build collaboratively with members of the team.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Core understanding of streaming in Java and how to leverage it with AWS proprietary services.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot framework.
• Implement various architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, cloud-native).
• Databases: Basic knowledge of SQL. Familiarity with non-relational databases.
• Communication Skills: Good oral and written English communication skills are required for this role. A successful candidate must be able to work alongside the users and the wider developer community in the firm and should also be able to communicate effectively with them.

Skills & Experience:

• A deep understanding of AWS for cloud solutions.
• A strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in using Kafka as the message broker.
• Nurture, guide and mentor junior members of the team. Nice to Have:
• Experience with Java 21.
• Experience with Cloud Migration strategies.
• Experience with Kafka Streaming.
• Experience with Argo CD.
• Experience with Gitlab for CI/CD processes.
• Experience with Behaviour Driven Design writing automation test cases in Cucumber.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.

I have flexibility to create happiness and harmony. Our working environment, plus the ability to work remotely, has eliminated the Sunday Scaries that plagued me for decades in my career. I actually say “Happy Monday” on my calls.