Senior Backend Engineer — Java & Spring Boot, Cloud-Ready

Aristocrat; City Of London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

Robust benefits package

Global career opportunities

Job summary

Aristocrat in City of London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design and build scalable, cloud-based services using Java and Spring Boot. You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions.

You will collaborate with managers and cross-functional teams to deliver features on time, address technical debt, and improve engineering processes while supporting production systems.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and backend service design principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently on complex technical challenges.
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Proven track record of delivering production-ready software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with your manager, business units and peers to deliver features on time and aligned with business priorities.
• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code, and participate actively in code reviews.
• Help break down complex problems into actionable technical solutions.
• Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements and translate them into technical implementations.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and accountability.
• Identify and address technical debt while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health.
• Support production systems, including troubleshooting issues and participating in on-call rotations as needed.
• Contribute to improving engineering processes, tools, and best practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Problem solving

Communication

Production-ready software

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD

Observability tools

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Aristocrat in City of London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design and build scalable, cloud-based services using Java and Spring Boot. You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions.

You will collaborate with managers and cross-functional teams to deliver features on time, address technical debt, and improve engineering processes while supporting production systems.