Senior Java Engineer: Cloud‑First Solutions & Mentorship

Kainos; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Senior Associate) to develop high-quality software solutions for users worldwide. You will operate in a fast-paced environment, making sound decisions while learning new technologies and mentoring others around you.

The role emphasizes collaboration, architectural input, and delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable software across multiple layers of an application.

Qualifications

• Must have demonstrable Java and AWS experience.
• Proficient in designing, building, testing and maintaining modern software applications.
• Experience of applying development best practices and patterns in relation to security, scalability and performance.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation.
• Experience of design and development across multiple layers of an application.
• Mentoring junior team members.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical people.
• Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques.
• Experience of debugging and troubleshooting live applications.
• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and with wider non-technical audiences.
• Experience of multiple programming languages and data storage technologies.
• Experience of balancing technical decisions with user needs and commercial constraints.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms, such as AWS and Azure, including SaaS and PaaS offerings.
• Experience in one or more Java BPMN 2.0 implementations. Activiti is preferred but experience in Camunda, Flowable or jBPM will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality solutions which delight our customers and impact users worldwide.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to architectural decisions and project planning.

Skills

Java

AWS

Software design

Mentoring

Security & scalability

Architecture decisions

CI/CD concepts

Troubleshooting

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Senior Associate) to develop high-quality software solutions for users worldwide. You will operate in a fast-paced environment, making sound decisions while learning new technologies and mentoring others around you.

The role emphasizes collaboration, architectural input, and delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable software across multiple layers of an application.