Software Engineer Java Hybrid

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Hands-on Java application design, software development, and automated testing experience with Java 11 and higher
• Intermediate knowledge of basic infrastructure technologies and components
• Familiarity with application containers based on Spring, Vert.X, or equivalent
• Familiarity with cloud services, DevOps concepts, and CI/CD tools
• Experience with event-driven and microservices architecture for high-availability, distributed systems
• Experience using Spring Framework, JUnit, GitHub, microservices, Splunk, and APIs
• Experience with test-driven development and unit testing frameworks
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and build tools such as Maven or Gradle

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing software applications using Java
• Writing, testing, and maintaining clean, efficient code
• Building back-end services, APIs, and microservices
• Integrating applications with databases and external systems
• Troubleshooting bugs and optimizing application performance
• Participating in code reviews, testing, and deployment activities
• Collaborating with business analysts, QA teams, architects, and other developers
• Ensuring applications are scalable, secure, and reliable

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Git
• GitHub
• Support
• JUnit
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• NoSQL
• REST
• SQL
• Splunk
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices
• API
• Gradle
• TDD

More:

We are a leading IT consultancy hiring on a contract basis for a Software Engineer Java 11 to support a leading financial services client. This role requires onsite work at the clients West Sussex office three times per week, so we ask that applicants can commit to this requirement. Typical technologies used in this role include Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, REST APIs, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, AWS/Azure cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Maven, and CI/CD tools.

last updated 32 week of 2026