Senior Java/Spring Boot Backend Engineer — Scale & Mentorship

Placements24; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development

Office in East London

Job summary

Placements24 in East London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Java and the Spring Boot framework. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers to drive architectural decisions.

The role focuses on scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and relational databases within an agile environment, offering flexible working options and a dynamic office culture in East London.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in CS/Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java (8+) and Spring Boot experience with RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Write clean, well-documented, thoroughly tested code.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and engineers to define requirements and deliver features.
• Optimize performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve scalability and reliability.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues to ensure stability and availability.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Microservices

Git

Agile

Backend architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Placements24 in East London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Java and the Spring Boot framework. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers to drive architectural decisions.

The role focuses on scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and relational databases within an agile environment, offering flexible working options and a dynamic office culture in East London.