Senior Java Engineer – Greenfield Cloud-Native Microservices

Pulse Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Group partners with a major UK retailer to build a brand-new engineering capability within their Customer Fulfilment technology programme.

They’re investing in an in-house platform that can integrate with multiple automation vendors, robotics systems and warehouse technologies. You’ll be a senior hands-on Java engineer owning architectural decisions and guiding a UK team as the platform grows.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems.
• Greenfield product or platform from conception to production.
• Architectural ownership across microservices and domain design.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and databases.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-native Java services from scratch.
• Own architecture decisions across service boundaries.
• Integrations with automation vendors, robotics, and warehouse tech.
• Take systems from first commit to production with ownership of performance.
• Set engineering standards and mentor developers via code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and external vendors on complex decisions.
• Shape engineering standards across a distributed programme.

Skills

Java

Event-driven design

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Code reviews

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Pulse Group partners with a major UK retailer to build a brand-new engineering capability within their Customer Fulfilment technology programme.

They’re investing in an in-house platform that can integrate with multiple automation vendors, robotics systems and warehouse technologies. You’ll be a senior hands-on Java engineer owning architectural decisions and guiding a UK team as the platform grows.