Senior Java Engineer — Observability, Resilience & Scale

The IG Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in London is seeking a Technical Lead with strong Java and distributed systems expertise. You will optimize systems, lead incident responses, and implement monitoring standards. The ideal candidate has a passion for automation and a background in financial services. This role offers competitive pay and a hybrid working environment, encouraging collaboration and innovation.

Benefits

Private medical cover

Life insurance

Contribution to gym memberships

25 days holiday with additional days for special occasions

Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• Strong Java development experience with a deep understanding of JVM internals.
• Proven experience with containerisation and orchestration.
• Hands-on expertise with message brokers in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry standards.
• Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives for critical services.

Skills

Java development

Distributed systems troubleshooting

Message brokers

Container orchestration

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kafka

ActiveMQ

Nomad

Job description

A leading FinTech company in London is seeking a Technical Lead with strong Java and distributed systems expertise. You will optimize systems, lead incident responses, and implement monitoring standards. The ideal candidate has a passion for automation and a background in financial services. This role offers competitive pay and a hybrid working environment, encouraging collaboration and innovation.