Lead Java Engineer: Scale Microservices on AWS

Vertus Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Vertus Partners seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own high-impact, business-critical Java microservices systems built on a modern architecture. This hands-on role shapes core services’ design, build, and scale, collaborating with architecture and business stakeholders to deliver resilient production-grade software.

You will be embedded in a cross-functional team with real responsibility for platform evolution beyond simple backlog delivery, influencing direction and standards across the stack.

Qualifications

• Strong background building server-side systems in Java
• Experience delivering robust software in production environments
• Exposure to cloud-based infrastructure and modern workload management

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve scalable services within a distributed architecture, supporting key business applications
• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery, from design through to deployment and ongoing optimisation
• Drive engineering standards across security, performance, observability and reliability
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to shape platform direction and design decisions
• Contribute to automation across build, test and deployment pipelines
• Balance structured design with pragmatic experimentation and prototyping where needed

Skills

Java

Microservices

AWS

Distributed Systems

Agile

Job description

Vertus Partners seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own high-impact, business-critical Java microservices systems built on a modern architecture. This hands-on role shapes core services’ design, build, and scale, collaborating with architecture and business stakeholders to deliver resilient production-grade software.

You will be embedded in a cross-functional team with real responsibility for platform evolution beyond simple backlog delivery, influencing direction and standards across the stack.