Senior Java Engineer: Lead Live Platform, Hybrid Ownership

Applause IT Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of live app

Roadmap influence

Hybrid work

Full benefits on application

Job summary

Applause IT Recruitment in Manchester is seeking two Senior/Lead Java Developers for a privately owned AdTech business. You will own a live application in a small senior team, with core stack Java, Spring, Aurora DB and Vue.js on the front end.

This role is not maintenance; a two-year roadmap ahead includes TV and addressable campaigns. You’ll influence what gets built, lead client discussions, and plan delivery in a hybrid Manchester office.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring.
• Track record with large datasets and performance-critical systems.
• Genuine interest in machine learning or statistics-driven problem solving.
• Comfortable working alongside AI coding tools such as Copilot, including for testing.
• Confident communicator who can lead client and stakeholder discussions.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining core platform features in Java, Spring and Aurora DB.
• Solving large-scale data and performance problems (MapReduce-style processing).
• Applying sound software design patterns across the application you own.
• Shaping the product roadmap through feature development and prioritisation.
• Leading sessions with clients and stakeholders and assessing feasibility of ideas.
• Planning delivery: breaking projects down, delegating work and owning outcomes.

Skills

Java

Spring

Large datasets

Performance

ML/Statistics

AI tools (Copilot)

Tools

Aurora DB

Vue.js

Job description

Applause IT Recruitment in Manchester is seeking two Senior/Lead Java Developers for a privately owned AdTech business. You will own a live application in a small senior team, with core stack Java, Spring, Aurora DB and Vue.js on the front end.

This role is not maintenance; a two-year roadmap ahead includes TV and addressable campaigns. You’ll influence what gets built, lead client discussions, and plan delivery in a hybrid Manchester office.