Java Software Engineer

Software Engineer, Java

Join us as a Software Engineer, Java

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
• We're offerieng this role at associate level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need experience in serving as a core contributor to high‑performing engineering teams, building enterprise‑grade, scalable solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, and React, with a minimum of five years of relevant hands‑on work. You’ll need experience in designing, developing, and maintaining secure, high‑performance backend services, RESTful APIs, and event‑driven systems leveraging Kafka, along with building responsive, modern user interfaces using React and Redux.

You’ll need experience in supporting and enhancing legacy applications built with Struts and JSP, ensuring stability while driving gradual modernization, enforcing best practices for code quality, performance, security, and maintainability, collaborating with cross‑functional teams on architecture and technical decisions, developing and deploying cloud‑native solutions, and mentoring junior engineers to foster engineering excellence and continuous learning.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools and wikis
• Experience in multiple programming languages or low code toolsets
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
• A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

04/05/2026

Experience Level

Mid Level