Senior Java Engineer (AI-Augmented Delivery)

Salt; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in London is seeking a Senior Java Engineer for a 12-month contract focused on server-side delivery and migration to an event-based, service-oriented architecture. You will join an Agile team and contribute to architecture decisions while delivering robust IT solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on Java development, mentoring juniors, and ensuring compliance with standards across platforms, with around eight on-site days per month.

Qualifications

• Strong core Java experience across design, development, testing and deployment.
• Experience building services/micro-services in Java.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes for containerised services.
• Proficient on Unix/Linux and Kafka ecosystem.
• Familiar with TDD/BDD and modern cloud development.
• Experience in Agile teams and delivering end-to-end IT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work in an Agile team to migrate legacy app to event-based, service-oriented architecture.
• Lead delivery of end-to-end IT solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure adherence to engineering standards and design guidelines.
• Coordinate walkthroughs with delivery teams to ensure cross-platform consistency.
• Hands-on development and coaching of junior staff on new technologies.
• Support development of more junior colleagues and share knowledge.

Skills

Java

OO Design

Microservices

Public Cloud

Test-Driven Development

Behaviour-Driven Development

Agile

Kafka

Performance Tuning

Unix/Linux

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Duration: 12 months

Start: ASAP

My client is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join a contract basis. They need someone with strong core Java expertise as the role primarily involves server-side deployment. 8 days on site per month. The successful candidate will have demonstrable solutions design and development skills and experience alongside validated strong systems development experience at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Application architects and other stakeholders.
• Lead delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.
• Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.
• Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development.
• Undertaking hands-on development and coaching staff in the new technologies used; The successful candidate will be expected to support the development of more junior colleagues

Technical Skills:

• Strong systems development experience at all stages of systems development covering design, development, testing, live implementation and post implementation support.
• Strong hands-on Object-Oriented Design skills
• Experience of developing services/micro-services in Java
• Experience of developing containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience of developing and deploying on Unix or Linux
• Hands-on experience of using the Kafka ecosystem
• Experience of profiling and performance tuning
• Experience of Behaviour-Driven and Test-Driven development principles and skills
• Experience of Public Cloud development

Soft Skills:

• Have the ability to motivate those you mentor, coach & lead
• Be a stand-out colleague and role model, willing to participate in peer reviews and to be reviewed by peers
• Be reliable, self-motivated and able to work without close management and supervision
• Possess inspiring communication and presentation skills to present proposals both orally and in writing
• Have the demonstrable ability to complete work within agreed timescales and identify problems and provide the most suitable solution(s)

The following are not essential but would be a plus if the candidate can demonstrate any experience of:

• Working in an Agile development team
• Designing and implementing platform independent, database independent event driven applications
• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle
• Splunk
• DevOps principles, processes and tooling
• IBM MQ
• Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON
• Working in Financial Market Infrastructure and/or Regulated environments