About this role
Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Java 8, 11, or 17+ and enterprise application development
- Strong back-end development experience
- Experience with microservices architecture, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed system design
- Experience with Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous processing
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience, including deployment, monitoring, and cloud-native services
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, automated testing, and Agile delivery
- Stakeholder engagement and management skills
- Good communication skills
Responsibilities
- Develop and support back-end enterprise applications
- Work with microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven messaging
- Deploy and monitor services on Google Cloud Platform
- Use containerisation and orchestration tools, CI/CD pipelines, databases, and automated testing
Technologies
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Docker
- GCP
- Git
- GitHub
- Support
- Java
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- NoSQL
- REST
- SQL
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- DevOps
More
We are seeking a Backend Java Developer for a 6–12+ month contract supporting a Tier-1 bank. The role is based in Manchester, with a hybrid arrangement requiring two days per week in the office. The rate is £475 per day, inside IR35. The start is urgent, and interview slots are available as soon as possible.
last updated 46 week of 2026