Senior Java Engineer - AI-Driven Microservices (Hybrid)

Bounteous; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous, a global AI Services firm, seeks a Senior Java Developer for a hybrid Glasgow role (3 days in office). Bring 4–12 years’ experience to design, build, and scale Java-based AI-enabled applications.

You will work with Java 17, Kafka, Spring Boot, and AWS, interfacing with stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver robust software in a collaborative setting. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, comfortable working autonomously yet within a

Qualifications

• Java 8, Kafka, Collections, Multi-threading, and UNIX knowledge are essential.
• Self-starter with good communication and ability to work with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to enhancing our current applications that are written in Java 17.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems/requirements into technical specifications.
• Autonomously operate in a high-trust environment while collaborating with the team.
• Write unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Core understanding of streaming in Java and AWS services.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot framework.
• Implement architectures: microservices, event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, cloud-native.
• SQL and NoSQL databases familiarity.
• Strong English communication with users and developer community.

Skills

Java 8

Multi-threading

Problem solving

Self-starter

English communication

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Spring Boot

Argo CD

GitLab CI/CD

Unix

Job description

Bounteous, a global AI Services firm, seeks a Senior Java Developer for a hybrid Glasgow role (3 days in office). Bring 4–12 years’ experience to design, build, and scale Java-based AI-enabled applications.

You will work with Java 17, Kafka, Spring Boot, and AWS, interfacing with stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver robust software in a collaborative setting. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, comfortable working autonomously yet within a