Senior Java Engineer - AWS Cloud & Serverless

Vix Technology; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Income Protection Scheme

Pension

Group Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Electric Car Benefit Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Eyecare and Optometry Vouchers

Job summary

Vix Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in the UK. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions for public transit systems, collaborating with platform experts and hardware specialists to deliver robust applications.

The role requires 5+ years of software development experience, strong Java and AWS serverless skills, and hands-on work with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience.
• Strong Java expertise and AWS cloud experience, especially serverless.
• Experience with ECS/ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, and CDK.
• Proficient in building RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases; Oracle and PostgreSQL experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing (JUnit, Jest, Selenium, Cucumber, Allure).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software solutions.
• Contribute to Agile development processes including sprint planning and reviews.
• Collaborate with Team Lead and Principal Engineer on design priorities.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews.
• Investigate production incidents to ensure system stability.

Skills

Java

AWS serverless (Lambda/API Gateway)

Containerisation (ECS/ECR)

CDK

CI/CD pipelines

RESTful APIs

Kafka

Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)

Automated testing (JUnit/Jest/Selenium

Mentoring & teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT

Tools

Bitbucket

Job description

Vix Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in the UK. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions for public transit systems, collaborating with platform experts and hardware specialists to deliver robust applications.

The role requires 5+ years of software development experience, strong Java and AWS serverless skills, and hands-on work with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.