Salary: £104,000 - 104,000 per year
Requirements: - Strong experience in Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Data JPA
- Expertise in microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
- Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of API authentication and authorization, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID Connect, and API gateway concepts
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics
- Strong understanding of bean management and dependency injection using Spring Framework
- SQL database experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL
- Strong debugging and performance tuning skills
- Experience with Git, Maven, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines
- 8 years of software development experience
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience with Java microservices development
- Nice to have: AWS or Azure cloud experience
- Nice to have: Docker containerization
- Nice to have: NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Nice to have: Frontend experience with Angular or React
- Nice to have: Exposure to banking, financial services, or payments domain
Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based applications using Java 17, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs while implementing robust authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Build event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka for real-time data processing and messaging
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes environments
- Implement observability solutions using tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
- Work closely with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, and DevOps engineers throughout the SDLC
- Ensure code quality through unit testing, code reviews, and CI/CD best practices
- Develop database solutions, write complex SQL queries, and optimize database performance
- Follow secure coding practices and enterprise API security standards
Technologies: - API
- AWS
- Angular
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Dynatrace
- ELK
- Frontend
- Git
- Grafana
- JPA
- JWT
- Java
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Maven
- MongoDB
- MVC
- MySQL
- NoSQL
- OAuth
- OpenID
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- React
- SQL
- Security
- Splunk
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- REST
- Fullstack
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We are seeking an experienced Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in building scalable enterprise applications using modern Java technologies, cloud-native architectures, and microservices. Our role focuses on Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, API security, observability, SQL databases, and Spring-based microservices development. We work closely across business stakeholders, architecture, QA, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing applications with strong engineering practices.
last updated 39 week of 2026