Lead Java Developer

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; In loco; GBP 108.000 - 132.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Annual bonus

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Life assurance

Dental & eye care insurance

Work from home 2 days a week

Long service awards

Referral fee upwards of £2000

Personal training & development budget

Descrizione del lavoro

Understanding Recruitment is partnering with an FX Market disruptor FinTech seeking a hands-on Senior/Lead Java Developer to guide the next generation of Java engineers. The role focuses on technical leadership, architecture decisions, and delivering scalable microservices in the cloud, with a strong bias toward low-latency, multithreaded systems.

The position is based in London with a requirement to be in the office 3 days per week and offers a competitive package, including a generous bonus

Competenze

• Experience with multithreading and low-latency systems.
• Financial sector exposure, FX/trading preferred.
• Built microservices in the cloud (GCP/AWS) with Kubernetes.
• Experience in product-led architecture and delivery.
• Proven technical leadership: architecture decisions, mentoring, code reviews.

Mansioni

• Lead and mentor a hands-on team of Java developers.
• Architect and deliver microservices in cloud environments.
• Drive architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Support a product-led development approach and delivery.

Conoscenze

Multithreading

Concurrency

Low latency

Financial sector experience

Cloud microservices

Kubernetes

Product-led development

Technical leadership

Strumenti

GCP

AWS

Descrizione del lavoro

Have you got experience leading a team while remaining hands‑on and technically involved?

Salary: up to £120k + bonus

Location: London office 3 days a week

We are delighted to be continuing our longstanding partnership with an FX Market Disruptor FinTech that has been acquired by a leading capital market. They are looking for an experienced Java Developer who will fulfil a hands‑on Senior/Lead role leading the next generation of Java Developers.

They are looking for the following experience in Senior Java Developers:

• Multithreading, concurrency, low latency
• Working in the financial sector e.g. FX, trading
• Building microservices in the cloud (GCP, AWS) with Kubernetes
• Product‑led development – architecting, building and delivering
• Technical leadership: architectural decisions, mentoring, code reviews, pairing

This is a brilliant company to work for with numerous generous benefits:

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (which increases with service)
• Life assurance
• Dental & eye care insurance
• Work from home 2 days a week
• Long service awards
• Referral fee upwards of £2000
• Personal training & development budget

Please note: Due to compliancy reasons, we will only be able to consider applications based in and eligible to work in the UK.