Java Spring Boot Engineer - AI/ML in Production, Hybrid

Ports North; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Java Developer for a 6-month contract role. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in Java and Spring Boot, with proven experience integrating AI/ML models into production. Responsibilities include developing microservices, building event-driven architectures, and deploying services in cloud environments. This hybrid position is outside IR35.

Qualifications

• Strong Java & Spring Boot engineering background.
• Proven experience integrating AI/ML into live applications.
• Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Financial Services experience (payments, trading, risk, fraud, etc).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Java (11+) / Spring Boot microservices.
• Integrate and deploy AI/ML models into production systems.
• Work with data science teams to operationalise models (APIs, pipelines).
• Build and support event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Ensure security, compliance, testing, and reliability.
• Deploy services to cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) via CI/CD.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AI/ML integration

AWS

GCP

Azure

SQL

NoSQL

Financial Services background

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

MLflow

Seldon

SageMaker

Job description

A leading technology firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Java Developer for a 6-month contract role. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in Java and Spring Boot, with proven experience integrating AI/ML models into production. Responsibilities include developing microservices, building event-driven architectures, and deploying services in cloud environments. This hybrid position is outside IR35.