Lead Java Microservices Engineer — Kafka & Spring Boot (Hybrid)

Salt Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is assisting a major bank in London with a Lead Java Developer role. You will drive the migration to event-based, service-oriented architecture, lead end-to-end IT delivery, and mentor junior developers, collaborating with architects and delivery teams.

Requires strong Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, and microservices experience. The role is hybrid in London, with daily rate constraints and a 12-month contract starting ASAP.

Qualifications

• Strong Java development experience across full SDLC.
• Experience delivering event-based, service-oriented architectures.
• Hands-on in building and migrating to microservices.
• Exposure to Docker/Kubernetes containerized deployments.
• Familiar with Cloud deployment and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Part of an Agile team delivering migration to event-based and SOA architecture.
• Lead end-to-end IT solution delivery meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise engineering standards.
• Coordinate solution walkthroughs across delivery teams for consistency.
• Provide hands-on development and mentor staff in new tech.

Skills

Java

Kafka

Microservices

Spring Boot

OO Design

Performance tuning

BDD/TDD

Agile development

Public Cloud

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment is assisting a major bank in London with a Lead Java Developer role. You will drive the migration to event-based, service-oriented architecture, lead end-to-end IT delivery, and mentor junior developers, collaborating with architects and delivery teams.

Requires strong Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, and microservices experience. The role is hybrid in London, with daily rate constraints and a 12-month contract starting ASAP.