Senior Java Developer

**Senior Java Developer** (Contract)

Duration: 6 Months (Possibility for Extension)

Location: Role can be fulfilled remotely however offices are situated in Manchester and London

Rate: A highly competitive Day rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

Our services are built by highly collaborative product teams, jam packed with hard-working product managers, designers and engineers constantly striving for ways to innovate our services and improve our technology platforms and practices. We love pairing, mobbing, TDD, automating, and releasing to production multiple times a day via our highly automated build pipelines.

Our developers use their expertise and knowledge of building and maintaining large distributed systems to create blazingly fast and reliable experiences that delight our customers. They also use their passion to inspire everyone they work with to deliver a world class experience. We work collaboratively in full stack multi-disciplinary teams where everyone is expected to be hands on across all stages of development.

Our backends are a mix of Java Spring Boot and serverless AWS Lambda services using Node.js. We build our front end apps as single page applications in modern JavaScript frameworks, powered by our microservice architecture. Our infrastructure is hosted in AWS, defined as code, containerised with Kubernetes, and we're embracing serverless and other cloud native technologies. We share data through an event-driven system backed by Kafka. Our operational data stores are a combination of Mongo and AWS managed Relational Databases.

Role Requirements:

• Leading on the delivery of new features and functionality in your team.


• Collaboration with all members of your team and work hands-on through end-to-end delivery, using practices like pair and mob programming.


• Chip in to the technical strategy for your team.


• Drive forward initiatives you identify for making improvements.


• Ensure we are effectively handling maintenance and operational requirements, such as technical debt & sensible levels of documentation.


• Using your expertise and experience to mentor and coach others.

Skills & Experience:

• We're looking for significant experience with one or more OO programming languages (we primarily work with Java (17 & 21) & Node.js, but we are open minded and can consider experience with any programming language)


• Demonstrable experience with Springboot


• Experience with all types of automated testing (unit, integration, contract, E2E, performance) and a capable TDD practitioner.


• Highly proficiency in good code design practices and able to coach others.


• Flexibility to work across the full stack and experience with CI/CD and maintaining cloud infrastructure.


• The confidence and ability to guide and mentor people and teams to design, deliver and maintain high-quality web applications.


• A passion for agile development - we love to ship and deliver value as quickly as possible.


• Those who love working in a highly collaborative environment and enjoy pairing and mobbing


• Experience working in a highly technical environment with both front end and back end however please note this role will be more focused on back end development

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.