Senior Java Engineer — Travel-Tech, Fully Remote Europe

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,350 - 73,800; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing travel-tech organisation is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join their team. This fully remote position will involve leading the evolution of a large-scale Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL system. Candidates should have expertise in building commercial applications and understanding of backend design patterns and integration. This is a 6-month contract with high likelihood of extension, offering a competitive daily rate from £300 to £400.

Qualifications

• Senior-level expertise building and maintaining commercial production-scale applications.
• Experience architecting and maintaining distributed backend systems.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, API design, and scalable service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of a large-scale Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL system.
• Design and implement new backend features, unit testing, API testing.
• Contribute to shared architecture, functional models, and backend design patterns.

Skills

Java

API design

Scalable service architecture

Integration patterns

Distributed backend systems

Spring Boot

MySQL

Tools

Node.js

PHP

MongoDB

Kafka

React

Job description

A fast-growing travel-tech organisation is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join their team. This fully remote position will involve leading the evolution of a large-scale Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL system. Candidates should have expertise in building commercial applications and understanding of backend design patterns and integration. This is a 6-month contract with high likelihood of extension, offering a competitive daily rate from £300 to £400.