Senior Java/Spring Boot Engineer - Cloud & Microservices

scrumconnect ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Ltd is seeking an experienced Software Developer to design, build and maintain secure, high-quality Java services for public sector digital programmes. You'll work in multidisciplinary agile teams, take part in technical design, and provide technical leadership by setting standards, reviewing work and supporting other engineers.

The role focuses on Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and CI/CD, with deployment to AWS and Azure.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on experience of Java and Spring Boot.
• Proven experience designing and building microservices.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests with JUnit.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience working with AWS and Azure.
• Clean, maintainable and secure software practices.
• Experience contributing to technical design and leading technically within an agile team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Java and Spring Boot applications, including RESTful APIs.
• Develop and evolve a microservices architecture, keeping services loosely coupled, scalable and resilient.
• Write clean, maintainable and secure code, following agreed standards and best practice.
• Write automated tests, including unit tests with JUnit, and practise test-driven development.
• Take part in technical design, and explain design options and trade-offs to developers, architects and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines so changes are tested and released reliably.
• Deploy and run services on AWS and Azure.
• Review code and designs, and give constructive feedback.
• Provide agile technical leadership: guide the team on technical decisions, mentor developers and help unblock complex problems.
• Investigate and fix defects, and support services in live.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

JUnit

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Team communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Scrumconnect Ltd is seeking an experienced Software Developer to design, build and maintain secure, high-quality Java services for public sector digital programmes. You'll work in multidisciplinary agile teams, take part in technical design, and provide technical leadership by setting standards, reviewing work and supporting other engineers.

The role focuses on Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and CI/CD, with deployment to AWS and Azure.