Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Newbury, South East

Java / Kotlin Developer

Full-Time£65,000 - 70,000 per yearavant-hierUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £65,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong experience with Java or Kotlin on JVM 11+
  • Strong experience with Spring Boot
  • Experience in enterprise backend development
  • Experience with REST APIs and microservices
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with Git and modern development practices
  • Comfortable operating at Principal level, making technical decisions, solving complex problems, and helping other engineers develop
  • Desirable: telecommunications billing
  • Desirable: Azure
  • Desirable: CI/CD
  • Desirable: Linux
  • Desirable: Redis
  • Desirable: Elasticsearch or additional programming languages
Responsibilities:
  • Stay hands-on with backend development, with around 90% of the role focused on backend work
  • Work on a large platform with high-throughput APIs, Azure Cloud, and an event-driven architecture
  • Help shape technical direction, engineering standards, and architecture
  • Mentor other engineers
  • Evaluate new technologies
  • Work closely with customers and stakeholders to turn requirements into robust technical solutions
Technologies:
  • Azure
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Docker
  • ElasticSearch
  • Git
  • JVM
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • NoSQL
  • REST
  • Redis
  • SQL
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • microservices
  • Angular
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • React
  • TypeScript

More:

We are a growing business working on a large, high-throughput platform in the telecommunications and online payments space. This is a remote-first Principal Java or Kotlin Developer role based around our Newbury office, with an expectation of around 2-3 visits per year, though more time onsite is welcome. You would join a 16-person R&D development team made up largely of senior engineers. We offer 24 days holiday plus your birthday off, private medical, life assurance, critical illness cover, an employee assistance programme, a contributory pension, and regular monthly and quarterly all-hands events including summer and Christmas gatherings.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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About Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Newbury

IT

Skills & Technologies

TypeScriptJavaGoKotlinReactAngularSpringAzureDockerKubernetesLinuxGit

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£67,500

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£55,000

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