Java Tech Lead @ TXP

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on Java backend development experience, including the ability to provide technical guidance and undertake complex development
• Strong Spring Boot expertise in RESTful API and microservices development
• Experience designing scalable, resilient, loosely coupled microservices, including service-to-service communication and integration patterns
• Experience with API contracts, versioning, security, integration patterns and performance optimisation
• Experience modernising legacy applications, decomposing services and integrating with existing systems
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerising, deploying and managing microservices
• Experience leading developers, providing technical direction, mentoring and resolving complex engineering challenges
• Experience establishing development standards, conducting code reviews and ensuring code quality, security and maintainability
• Experience with JUnit, automated testing practices and test-driven development
• Experience with Git, build automation and CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Ability to translate architectural requirements into technical designs, manage technical dependencies and support delivery planning
• Desirable experience with AWS, JPA/Hibernate, Maven/Gradle, Mockito, GitLab, Helm, OpenAPI/Swagger, SQL, Kibana, observability and performance monitoring, event-driven architecture or messaging, and shell scripting
• Willingness to embrace and promote the effective use of approved AI tools and agents throughout the software development lifecycle
• Ability to guide engineering teams in adopting AI-assisted development practices while maintaining security, quality and governance standards

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the design, development and delivery of Java-based RESTful APIs and microservices as part of an application modernisation programme
• Lead engineering standards, technical design and solution implementation
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable and integrated with existing systems
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to developers, and resolve complex engineering challenges
• Guide teams in using approved AI tools and agents for technical analysis, solution design, code generation, testing, code reviews and continuous improvement

Technologies

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Git
• GitLab
• Gradle
• Helm
• Hibernate
• Support
• JPA
• JUnit
• Java
• Kibana
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• OpenAPI
• SQL
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Swagger
• microservices
• Cloud

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We are recruiting a Java Tech Lead for a six-month engagement, with scope to extend. The role is hybrid, requiring four days on site per month in Telford, and is inside IR35. The rate is £550–£600.

last updated 45 week of 2026