Java Developer

Salary: £127,400 - 127,400 per year

Requirements:

• Java 11 and Python 3
• Spring Boot and Python Flask microservices
• Spring Security and OAuth2
• JavaScript UI frameworks, including React
• Strong HTML and CSS skills with awareness of accessibility considerations
• OpenShift
• Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices, including deployment pipelines, Jenkins, and Docker
• Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly MongoDB and Postgres
• Significant commercial experience delivering high-quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams
• Experience designing, gaining consensus on, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
• Experience developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using service-based and event-based architectures
• Experience using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
• Experience with cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
• Experience incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems
• Experience working in Agile delivery models
• Experience defining infrastructure as code
• Experience using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested, high-quality interfaces
• Experience with code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools
• Desirable: AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, and CDK TypeScript

Responsibilities:

• Enhance our customer-facing product portfolio based on customer feedback
• Develop and support our customer-facing products in line with our product and architecture roadmaps
• Improve digital sustainability and help reduce architectural and technical debt
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, collaborative software development practices focused on highly readable and maintainable artefacts
• Participate actively in team events, lead where specialist knowledge is required, and help improve team processes through inspection and adaptation
• Engage with wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, techniques, and experience
• Ensure high-quality solutions through unit testing, appropriate code coverage, and code analysis using code quality tools
• Ensure our software complies with non-functional requirements, including accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, and deployability
• Troubleshoot development and production issues across multiple environments and operating platforms, including our AWS-based modern stack and legacy ETL and database components
• Use collaborative development practices such as pairing, mobbing, code reviews, system design, and requirements analysis and refinement
• Coach and mentor other team members as appropriate
• Support and deliver disaster recovery assurance for our digital services, working toward a sustainable Recovery Time Objective of 2 hours and Recovery Point Objective of zero

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CSS
• DevOps
• Docker
• ETL
• Flask
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• MongoDB
• NoSQL
• OpenShift
• Python
• React
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices
• UX UI Design

More:

We are a public sector organisation with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow. We are hiring a Java Developer for an initial 6-month contract at up to £490 per day outside IR35, based on experience. The role is mainly remote, with occasional visits to our Edinburgh or Glasgow office. We offer the opportunity to work on customer-facing digital products within a collaborative team, supporting modern cloud-based services as well as legacy systems.

last updated 30 week of 2026