About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong backend development experience with Java.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices with Spring Boot.
- Experience designing scalable, resilient, loosely coupled microservices, including service-to-service communication.
- Strong RESTful API design skills, including API contracts, versioning, and integration patterns.
- Experience with JUnit automated unit testing.
- Experience working with JSON API data structures and formats.
- Experience containerising microservices with Docker.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing microservices with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, version control, and automated build and deployment pipelines.
- Desirable: experience with JPA/Hibernate, Kibana, Maven/Gradle, Mockito, AWS, GitLab, Helm, OpenAPI/Swagger, SQL, or shell scripting.
- Availability to start during the week commencing 4 January 2027.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy Java-based RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Use approved AI tools and agents throughout the backend development lifecycle, including analysis and technical design, code generation, automated testing, debugging, code review, and refinement.
Technologies
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Git
- GitLab
- Gradle
- Helm
- Hibernate
- JPA
- JSON
- JUnit
- Java
- Kibana
- Kubernetes
- Maven
- OpenAPI
- SQL
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Swagger
- microservices
- Cloud
More
We are recruiting a Senior Java Backend Developer for a major application modernisation programme for a Central Government client. The 12-month contract is based in Telford, with a minimum of two days per month onsite and the remaining time remote. The rate is £550 per day, and the role is inside IR35.
last updated 45 week of 2026