Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Adecco; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Manchester for a 6-month contract. The role involves designing scalable backend services and working with Kubernetes and Cloud Platforms. Candidates should have strong Java experience and be comfortable in an agile environment. This position offers a hybrid work model with market-rate compensation.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Java and Spring Boot for enterprise-scale backend systems.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience in deploying microservices.
• Solid knowledge of Cloud Platforms and related services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable backend services using Java.
• Deploy and manage services with Kubernetes.
• Contribute to building CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

Kafka

CI/CD

Agile environment

Microservices

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - 6 Month Contract

Start Date: ASAP

Rate: Market rates, outside ir35

Contract Length: 6 months

Location: Manchester, hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java, aligning with best practices for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Work with containerisation/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes) to deploy, manage, and scale services.
• Develop and maintain systems on Cloud Platform, leveraging cloud-native capabilities.
• Implement and manage message streaming / queuing architectures using Kafka (or similar), ensuring high throughput, resilience, and fault tolerance.
• Contribute to CI/CD processes: build pipelines, automated testing, code reviews.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, DevOps/SRE, QA to define technical roadmap, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure observability.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong and proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, in enterprise-scale backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying microservices in production.
• Solid working knowledge of Cloud Platforms, including networking, storage, services like GKE, Pub/Sub, etc.
• In depth experience with Kafka: setting up clusters, producers/consumers, tuning, fault handling.
• Experience with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong CI/CD and DevOps mindset; experience with automated testing, monitoring, logging, observability.
• Ability to work in agile environment; strong communication skills.