Senior Java Backend Engineer - Microservices & Cloud

idpp; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

idpp is seeking an experienced Backend Developer / Java Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team building large-scale, customer-facing applications. You’ll design and develop scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, delivering features that have tangible impact for customers.

You’ll work across the full backend lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment and continuous improvement, collaborating with engineers on distributed systems and modern

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Proven experience developing microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience building customer-facing applications.
• Strong experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with large-scale applications, ideally supporting 10,000+ users.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Good understanding of CI/CD and Git, ideally including GitLab CI/CD.
• Kafka experience would be advantageous.
• A strong technical background in Java backend development and distributed systems.
• Evidence of delivering measurable improvements, features or business/customer outcomes.
• Experience within FinTech, financial services or payments.
• Experience working with Kafka/event-driven architectures.
• Experience operating highly available, high-volume applications.
• Experience working in modern Agile engineering environments.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL databases

Customer-facing applications

Agile engineering practices

High-scale applications

Event-driven architectures

Git

CI/CD

Kafka

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

Kafka

Job description

idpp is seeking an experienced Backend Developer / Java Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team building large-scale, customer-facing applications. You’ll design and develop scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, delivering features that have tangible impact for customers.

You’ll work across the full backend lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment and continuous improvement, collaborating with engineers on distributed systems and modern