Senior Java Developer Spring Boot TDD

Overview

As a Senior Java Developer, you will lead a small, high-performing backend team while delivering hands-on architecture and coding. You’ll work in a real-time sports betting domain, collaborating closely with Product Owners to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. The role balances technical leadership with mentoring, driving engineering excellence and continuous improvement. This opportunity combines hands-on coding with strategic influence in a global gaming software environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary up to 78k
• Personalised training budget
• Pension
• Healthcare including dental and optical
• Wellness experiences
• gym subsidy, cycle to work scheme, volunteer days

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor a small development team, balancing architecture work with coding and leadership (approximately 80/20)
• Oversee full delivery lifecycle with Product Owner to deliver backlog items to a high standard
• Promote engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement across the team and organization
• Develop backend solutions using Java and Spring Boot in a real-time betting context
• Champion Test Driven Development (TDD) and robust CS fundamentals
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment

Key requirements

• Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience
• Technical leadership, mentoring and coaching experience
• Proficient in Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Solid CS fundamentals (OOP, multithreading, design patterns, data structures)
• Collaborative, pragmatic communicator with stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable with agentic AI coding

• collaborative
• pragmatic
• strong communication
• Java
• Spring Boot
• TDD