Senior Backend Engineer: Java Focus, Ownership, Scale (Hybrid)

Humand Talent Ltd.; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits package

Professional development

Job summary

Humand Talent Ltd. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Full Stack) in Oxfordshire, offering a hybrid work pattern. The role focuses on robust backend services with Java as the main language, while enabling collaboration across frontend tech as needed.

You’ll design scalable architectures, improve performance and reliability, and mentor peers. Relevant cloud, containers, and CD/observability experience is valued, with strong fundamentals in software engineering driving the role.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building production backend software.
• Experience with Java and at least one modern backend language.
• Knowledge of scalable distributed systems and APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building reliable backend services and APIs.
• Own engineering problems from early stages through production.
• Mentor and review code; contribute to engineering standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and other teams to shape architecture.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

AI tooling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Spring Boot

Job description

Humand Talent Ltd. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Full Stack) in Oxfordshire, offering a hybrid work pattern. The role focuses on robust backend services with Java as the main language, while enabling collaboration across frontend tech as needed.

You’ll design scalable architectures, improve performance and reliability, and mentor peers. Relevant cloud, containers, and CD/observability experience is valued, with strong fundamentals in software engineering driving the role.