GCS
Java Developer
Job Description
Salary: £25,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong Java development experience, with modern Java 11+
- Experience designing and building microservices architectural style applications
- Experience with graph databases; Neo4j experience is desirable
- Experience modernising legacy Java applications
- Experience with the design and build of REST APIs
- Experience building HTML/JavaScript front ends; Angular experience is desirable
- Strong technical and analytical troubleshooting skills
- Experience in BDD and/or TDD approaches and frameworks, including unit/integration test automation
- Experience resolving dependency issues, performing upgrades, and remediating vulnerable dependencies
- Experience working in Agile environments, including Jira and Confluence
- A proactive approach and the ability to take initiative without waiting to be told what to do next
- Good interpersonal skills
- Strong English skills, written and spoken
- Collaborate with developers, testers, and the wider organisation to build and run products
- Design, develop, and implement back-end features based on backlog and priority, with a small element of front-end development
- Collaborate with the engineering team to design and launch new features
- Proactively work with customers to resolve issues and respond to feature requests
- Build APIs and microservices
- Work in an agile CI/CD environment to deliver rapid iterations at a sustained velocity
- Participate in peer reviews and support testing of other code through automated test scripting
- Angular
- CI/CD
- Confluence
- Support
- JIRA
- Java
- JavaScript
- Neo4J
- REST
- TDD
- microservices
- API
- Copilot
- Cucumber
- GitHub
- HTML5
- JUnit
- Maven
- PostgreSQL
More:
We are building a Developer Experience (DevX) Standards and Controls platform for control owners and development teams to manage and view compliance with a range of software development controls. We are re-platforming an application from a vendor platform (PCF) to an internal bring your own code (BYOC) platform, while also modernising the application and resolving dependency issues.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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GCS
Sheffield
IT
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£55,000
UK median
This salary is 32% below the UK median for Developers (£55,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks